Re: California's Disatrous Liberal Policies

[Herman]

Chevron says if California's new clean air rules go through it will shut down it's refineries in California because it is impossible to comply.  https://youtu.be/6Axc819hVLo?si=sz2icm2GCGD_EnAQ

All of California will be shutting down if this shit keeps up.

[Oerdin]

Democrats are idiots.  Everything they touch they destroy.

[Lokmar]

If you've ever experienced Californias weather and scenery, you can barely imagine how it was allowed to become such a fuck up of a state. Its paradise destroyed.

[Oliver the Second]

Shoplifting reports soared in L.A. last year



Shoplifting reports in Los Angeles surged by 81% in 2023 over the prior year, according to police data compiled by a nonprofit news organization.

Crosstown looked at crime statistics that the L.A. Police Department posted publicly on a city website last week.

It shows retailers reported 11,945 shoplifting cases in 2023, more than five thousand cases higher than in 2022 (6,585), which was a more typical year, as compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Overall, retail crime, which includes shoplifting and felony smash-and-grabs, climbed 15% in 2023, according to Crosstown.

Midway through 2023, local leaders announced a task force to combat the rising number of smash-and-grab cases that were occurring almost daily in the Los Angeles metro area – many during broad daylight in crowded stores.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/shoplifting-cases-soar-in-los-angeles/

[Thiel]

Shoplifting reports soared in L.A. last year



Shoplifting reports in Los Angeles surged by 81% in 2023 over the prior year, according to police data compiled by a nonprofit news organization.

Crosstown looked at crime statistics that the L.A. Police Department posted publicly on a city website last week.

It shows retailers reported 11,945 shoplifting cases in 2023, more than five thousand cases higher than in 2022 (6,585), which was a more typical year, as compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Overall, retail crime, which includes shoplifting and felony smash-and-grabs, climbed 15% in 2023, according to Crosstown.

Midway through 2023, local leaders announced a task force to combat the rising number of smash-and-grab cases that were occurring almost daily in the Los Angeles metro area – many during broad daylight in crowded stores.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/shoplifting-cases-soar-in-los-angeles/

Is there any point in reporting shoplifting in LA.

[Oerdin]

Despite a record year of rain the Democrats in California refused to allow reservoirs to capture that water "for the environment" so later this summer they will be limiting irrigation water to farmers.  They are anti-human and want to cause mass famine world wide

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/federal-central-valley-water-18679074.php

[Lokmar]

Despite a record year of rain the Democrats in California refused to allow reservoirs to capture that water "for the environment" so later this summer they will be limiting irrigation water to farmers.  They are anti-human and want to cause mass famine world wide

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/federal-central-valley-water-18679074.php

Hopefully, some lawmakers burn to death.

[Biggie Smiles]

[Brent]

No other issue separates working Americans and Canadians from the academic, corporate, and political elites more than mass immigration. Even the not knowing what a woman is cannot compare.

[Lokmar]

WHAT TEE FUK!!!!!!!!!!!!

        

[Thiel]

WHAT TEE FUK!!!!!!!!!!!!

        

No Republicans allowed. But, non citizens are welcome.

[Herman]

Start with the decline side, the effect. In January, California faced a budget deficit estimated at $58 billion. A month later, that deficit is now estimated at $73 billion. There are several months to go in the state's budget cycle, so no one knows what that final deficit number will turn out to be. I endorse the sentiment that Governor Gavin Newsom (D) "would run a child's lemonade stand into the ground." The state's infrastructure is already in appalling condition, so sharp reductions in state spending will get interesting in a hurry. Invest in Los Angeles tire shops.

The other side is the origin of the implosion. California's decline is caused by a political process that doesn't notice basic questions of governance because politicians are too busy preening and performing about social justice nonsense.

California politicians spend their time on things like reparations and an endless stream of disgraceful anti-parent bills; last year, discussing a bill to penalize parents for failing to honor a child's gender transition choices, one of the few Republican legislators in Sacramento warned parents to escape the state and "move to America."

Meanwhile, the California attorney general is suing a school district to prevent it from implementing a parental notification policy, fighting for secret sexual discussions on K-12 campuses.

And so California has lost more than 800,000 residents in three years, as people flee to sanity. They are, in fact, moving to America, and businesses are leaving with them. So Democrats keep winning elections in California, and they keep moving harder and harder to the left, and taxpayers are racing for the exits. And now: a $58 billion deficit that quickly turns into a $73 billion deficit.

What voting won't stop, capital flight will.

[Oerdin]

File this under stupid unrealistic ideas which won't actually work.  Leftists worry about poor people who drove old cars which are more polluting and get worse gas mileage.  They therefore propose a $1000 subsidy to encourage these poor people to supposedly buy a new EV car.  The problem?

Dirt poor people can't afford $50,000 EVs even if you give them a $1000 rebate.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/new-california-bill-would-help-gasoline-superusers-ditch-old-cars/amp/

[Thiel]

File this under stupid unrealistic ideas which won't actually work.  Leftists worry about poor people who drove old cars which are more polluting and get worse gas mileage.  They therefore propose a $1000 subsidy to encourage these poor people to supposedly buy a new EV car.  The problem?

Dirt poor people can't afford $50,000 EVs even if you give them a $1000 rebate.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/new-california-bill-would-help-gasoline-superusers-ditch-old-cars/amp/

Are the subsidies transferable? If they are, poor people will sell them to affluent liberals for one hundred bucks.

[Herman]

Are the subsidies transferable? If they are, poor people will sell them to affluent liberals for one hundred bucks.

Less than that. A 500 ml bottle of Big Bear.