California

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Mark Noonan22 Comments

Bill Cassidy is out – didn’t even make it to the runoff; came in third, so two other GOPers will vie for Cassidy’s seat this November.

The Usual Suspects are out there deploring this – “just because he wasn’t loyal to Trump!”. News flash: it wasn’t Trump who overwhelmingly voted Cassidy into history’s dust bin. It was the people of Louisiana. Seventy three percent of primary voters voted against Cassidy. That is a complete rejection not by Trump, but by the people.

The proximate cause, of course, was Cassidy voting to impeach Trump in 2021 – voting to do so based on what was a transparent Deep State op on January 6th. In other words, Cassidy wasn’t standing for Law … he was merely cooperating with a Dem op. And that is why he was punished. The GOP base – increasingly MAGA – is fed up with Republicans who help Democrats. It wasn’t the actual vote…it was why he voted like that.

The bottom line is that we’ll no longer tolerate weak-kneed Democrats in GOP clothing…people who only run as Republicans because that is the only way to power in their State or district. If you are to take GOP votes, we want a GOP result. Nobody has to jump on a grenade for Trump. You can be in opposition to this or that Trump policy. Plenty of GOPers are and Trump isn’t saying a word against them…because they aren’t cooperating with Dem ops. Trump doesn’t mind fair give and take – and he knows that the battle is some times knee to groin. He’s ok with that. In fact, he seems to enjoy that. But don’t backstab…don’t get out there repeating Democrat talking points – which are always lies.

The result also shows that MAGA is vibrant – the two advancing are, from what I can tell, MAGA and More MAGA, at least in rhetoric. The base is still with Trump. And if Trump and the MAGA GOP can get these people to show up in November, the result will be amazing. Reminder: all models are based upon the Trump 2024 voter not showing up. Could it end that way? Sure. But Trump and the GOP have a billion dollars in hand to remind these people how important it is to vote.

In 1859, the State of California passed the Pico Act – named after Andres Pico who led the effort. What did it do? Per the Constitution of the United States, it split California into two States – that is, with the consent of the State in question. This Act has never been repealed – it is still on the books in California. It was never completed because the Secession Crisis came on right afterwards and there simply wasn’t any time or desire to deal with it. Post Civil War, it was simply forgotten. But it is a law – and it is still in force. And Trump could do the funniest thing ever by sending the Pico Act back to Congress for their vote on it.

Iran might have thought Trump had forgot about them, but Trump hasn’t – earlier today he issued another warning to them: make a deal or else.

Robert Stacy McCain notes that a good starting point in discussing the odd ideas out there is to check, as it were, the browsing history of their advocates.

Looks like what we all suspected was correct: Omar knew all about the corruption. We need to indict, convict, denaturalize and deport this foreign agent.

The State of San Francisco (and of course open thread)

Cluster47 Comments

I noticed this article over at American Thinker this morning and I cannot stop thinking about it. There is no better example of progressives and the ideology they embrace and it has nothing to do with bettering anyone’s life. What they have done to California is disgraceful. California is home to some of the world’s richest people, some of the world’s most beautiful coastlines and National Parks, and yet also home to 25% of the nations homeless. In fact the cost of housing in California is so high that nurses, electricians, plumbers, etc., are choosing to live out of their cars, if not exiting the State altogether as Mark recently wrote about. California is becoming the perfect example of leftism – the haves, and the have nots. As is Chicago, Baltimore, New York and nearly every other municipality governed by progressive Democrats.

They certainly believe in equality, it’s just that they consider themselves more equal than others. Look at the salaries and benefits these “big government” progressives award themselves, all the while their constituents are living out of cars and worse. The taxpayers of San Francisco County paid $675,000,000 in salaries and benefits to just 2,600 government workers (an average of over $250,000/yr), while those same administrators claim that the government does not have enough money to provide shelter to the over 12,000 homeless living on their streets. That’s who they are. And when people show you who they are – believe them. Never give up the fight.