Guest Post by Maria K. Fotopoulos
Last week’s visit to California by Attorney General Jeff Sessions showed just how extreme California’s leadership has become. For the elected officials of California who may have forgotten, the U.S. AG heads the United States Department of Justice and is the chief lawyer for the United States government. It’s kind of a big deal — rather an important position. Perhaps the holder of said position has earned a modicum of respect.
But that doesn’t really matter to California’s extremist legislators and government officials. Starting with Gov. Jerry Brown and on to Calif. Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de Leon, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Representative Maxine Waters, Representative Adam Schiff and Representative Nancy Pelosi, among others, as evidenced by their words, they believe that all who don’t hold their extreme views, which include subverting rule of law, are fair game for any verbal character assassination and abuse. Note Gov. Brown’s tantrum thrown against Sessions when he was here in California. The Trump administration is “full of liars” and is “going to war against the state of California,” Brown said.
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Brown then accused Sessions of engaging in a “political stunt” and making “wild accusations” before he attacked Sessions for being from the South — Alabama, no less! Oh, the horror!
Brown fell short of calling for a lynching of the old white guy.
In the delirium and delusion of extremism, Brown understandably is confused as to who is going to war against whom. What caused him to unleash his attack? Sessions speaking the truth.
As AG, Sessions and the Department of Justice have taken legal action against the state of California in a lawsuit which alleges that California has violated the U.S. Constitution by passing three state statutes which “obstruct or otherwise conflict with, or discriminate against, federal immigration enforcement laws.”
It’s certainly overdue, but finally there’s a line in the sand drawn against California’s defiance. As has been widely reported and discussed, California has for years worked to blur the distinction in the state between American citizens and those living and working here illegally. This continual blurring in California has led to granting illegal aliens driver’s licenses, creating taxpayer-funded programs for illegal aliens to fight deportation and permitting illegal aliens to practice law, along with many other benefits, as more and more California cities began identifying themselves as sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. And, finally the entire state declared itself a sanctuary state.
The mass importation of people, and often poverty, has helped create a state that no longer can claim the “Golden” title. As I wrote last week, today’s California is no longer the Golden State and land of plenty, except for the privileged few.
Calling the state out on its infractions is well overdue. Many Californians will thank AG Sessions for taking California to task for its sanctuary laws as radical maneuvers that threaten public safety and open the country to even more illegal immigration.
We’ll see what happens this week. Given the dreadful treatment of Sessions when he visited California, who knows what awaits President Trump with his visit today.
4 days ago … The projected cost of California’s bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles has jumped to $77 billion and the opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033, according to a business plan released Friday.
..you lying faggot….we went from $9 billion to $77 billion….I guess those unfunded retirement liabilities
are riding the rail to Sanctuary, Ca
Next up the California assembly will vote to confiscate white farmers’ land without compensation and give it back to the Indians. On the bright side, less kale.
Blah, blah, stuff it up your bunghole, Maria. Remember when Obama ordered the forest service to shut down the public toilets at the parks? They needed to impact the public, scare them into thinking they need the federal gobmint (thar sounds better than gubmint, my first choice) for anything.
Now it turns out Trumpy and Yoda Sessions pulled one from the Obama playbook and ordered the chief of ICE to lie for them, claiming the Oakland mayor foiled their criminal alien round-up so they only got less than 300. The former chief says that was a huge number, unusual.
Yet the little shit Sessions wants to claim they could have gotten over a thousand if the mayor hadn’t opened her big mouth. Lying Sessions and Trumpy want their deportation force so badly, they come to Cali to lie their asses off. And fucking Donald J. Lecher has the gall to call out Guv Moonbeam saying he’s doing a bad job of running California.
Guess he never got the news on how badly Pete Wilson and Arnie did with the budget. It was Petey and his gang that instigated the recall of Gray Davis because the state was in hock for $3Billion. They backed Arnie in the recall election and Arnie went on to inflate the deficit by another $20Billion.
But the Trump tards will believe anything Trumpy and his carpetbagging attorney general say. Fuck them.
If Maria thinks we’re being unfairly disrespectful of the little scalawag from Alabama, perhaps she didn’t hear his claim that the federal gobmint is the supreme law of the land. He said that question of states’ rights was settled in the Civil War. Huh! I guess Alabama’s new byword is ‘We Done Fergot’ while the rest of the South says – Forget, Hell! Looks like Sessions has proven his loyalty to Trumpy.
Get the fuck out EC. I’m pretty sure you support the invasion and takeover of the US by your familia.
That is a dumb remark. My familia is American, bozo.
Was born and raised in California. Left there in 1964 after joining the military one month before the Viet Nam war started.
Don’t know what happened to change the State since I left but it seems that it was taken over by a criminal gang and has gone downhill ever since. It seems to be run like a communist country. The democratic party of California should be called the communist party and the card carrying public unions are no different than the card carrying communists that ran the former Soviet Union.
Perhaps President Trump should not only build a wall on the southern border of California but extend that wall all around California to keep them isolated from the rest of the country. Their ideology is dangerous to the rest of the country.
California is no longer a free State like it was when I grew up there. Communism is not the way of America. The only hope I see for California is when the Federal Government goes in and arrests those in control of the political establishment holding office and in charge of the government agencies that are oppressing the people. These people should be charged with crimes against humanity and the American way. The majority of the State agencies should be dissolved. 78 Billion to build a bullet train from San Francisco to LA is absurd.
California is now mostly Mexican. Mexicans have no problem accepting communism. Communism is not about self determinism and individualism. It is about herd mentality. It is about extreme order in place of freedom. Which means the few in the party controlling the lives of the many. This is not the American way.
California is a failed State that no longer serves the people. This opinion is from a person that was born and raised there and sees what it has become.
Thunderbird has had too much cheap wine. 1964 is, like, the pre-historic era. You have no basis, shit I would believe goofyfoot before I believed your ass.
Hey, T-bird, we have freeways now, and guess what? They are fucking congested. They want to build a bullet train? What’s it to you, you don’t live here, nigger.
I’m waiting for a bullet train to Vegas. But noooo, we have to pay for a wall. Brown told Trump to fuck off, now all the Trump tards are all butthurt. Boo Hoo Hoo.
The wall pays for itself, amigo.
How ’bout California refuses GovCo subsidies for just one year? If you libtards want to be all ‘independant’ and shit, go ahead but pay for it yourself.
BTW lived in Orange Co. and LA basin from 84 to 93, was a shithole then and a worse shithole when I came back to work on a major project in 2006 to 2008. Maybe Californians can’t see it, but man the whole South Bay area looked like one big long slum.
You are one big dumass
It is rule of law breaking down. Trickle down lawlessness. All the way down to the inner city. The lawlessness has nowhere to go but sideways to the rest of us. Hang on to your nuts and grab a gun with other hand. It will be a ride to die for.
I first experienced California in 1971. I loved it and envied the hippies hitchhiking along Hwy 1.
I later experienced it in the 90’s and not impressed, especially with downtown LA, which was run down and gang ridden at night. I didn’t see homeless people though.
I still work there on and off on projects and like certain places, especially humboldt county and Oxnard but it’s too expensive and the taxes are ridiculous. Compared to Texas I would have to make about 30% more merely to have the same standard of living and that doesnt count the disparity in real estate values. The homeless issue is now pandemic. San Francisco is becoming a cultural desert because none of the freaky people can afford to live there anymore and the businesses that cater to them are going out of business.
California, while still possessing a very potent economy, is ground zero for the everything bubble. God help then when it goes poof.
Zar, I think that was the complaint in Oregon, Cali folks drove up their real-estate prices. The niggers got priced out of Compton and they came up this way. I hear SF has many more homeless people than other Cali cities. The nice climate draws folks from all over the country. Up here in the AV, we have a glut of Angelenos. They are assholes on the road. There just a fucking menace with their loud talking (browns and blacks) and fucking attitude.
Do you know why they made Malibu a sanctuary city? They need to protect Josefina and Maria from deportation, they don’t want to lose their cheap housekeeper. California lost a lot of Hispanics to other states when the economic opportunities proved better elsewhere. Cali had to change their policy and make the state more Hispanic friendly. Shit, states back east were welcoming them with open arms and without the threats like Pete Wilson’s prop 187. The state soon found out their cheap laborers were wanted elsewhere, they had to make changes fast.
You would have liked it here back in the early 80’s – quiet bedroom community unknown by most Angelenos. People here were friendly and cooperative. Some of it rubbed off on me. I surprised a couple in Santa Monica, they were unloading something from their van and I stopped while they finished. They were visibly surprised and grateful. I soon found out why; in a tv newscast, we learned of a young mother who was killed as she was getting her child out from the car on the street side. Some asshole ran her over. That is LA. The gangs have nothing on the fucking drivers.
Did I tell you, I almost got hit by a truck that was speeding on a surface street. Rllly?
And I was downtown one day, the light changed and I was about to step off the curb when a Japanese lady tapped me on the arm to ask me something. While I paused from stepping into the street, a car zoomed by just inches from the curb. Pedestrians really are at the mercy of stupid LA drivers.
EC I know most here will disagree with me, but I really think we could agree to let most of the illegals stay, but only if we could stop any more from coming illegally. We could even – legislatively – favor immigration from Mexico over immigration from, say, Burma on account of longstanding historical affinity between the US and Mexico. We just can’t leave the border wide open. Even the newly enlightened nation of Wakanda, having decided to share its vibranium and technology with the world, didn’t say that anybody and everybody could move to Wakanda.
“…but I really think we could agree to let most of the illegals stay…”
You’re right. And if you get caught with a car you stole last year, fuck it, just keep it.
I consider the homeless tent cities in SoCal and the aroma of human excrement drifting with the fog over the sidewalks of San Francisco as special monuments to Jerry Brown and his merry band of pranksters.
San Francisco has a creepy vibe. It’s not just the gays and the satanists, it’s the bridge jumpers and crazed beggars, too. The smell of piss doesn’t help, either. Gavin Newsom is more to blame than Brown. Brown is a raging right winger compared to Newsom – who’s likely the next governor.
Iska, not all the gg bridge jumpers do so voluntarily. there’s the story of the guy who worked on the gaming machine software. He used an inside trick to ‘game’ the machine and make a bundle. then he became suicidal and jumped off the bridge. Huh!
Oh, and the lab guy who had the inside dope on anthrax. After a bigshot congressman got a bit of anthrax in the mail, this dude became suicidal and jumped off a bridge, left his car running and all his personal items in the car. Huh!
Glad you got to experience an earlier, happier California.
As was recently reported, 58,000 homeless in LA. That’s like a whole city!
There’s a section in Downtown LA that’s completely lined with homeless. It’s pretty shocking if you just happen upon a large homeless zone. That happened to me several years ago when I was leaving an event Downtown, ended up getting kind of turned around as to where I was and then landed in a homeless zone. At night. Scary.
More recently, I was invited to an auto event that was just off the main Downtown area. A colleague (from Arizona) who had worked on putting together the event was incredulous and disturbed about seeing streets just a few blocks from the event site covered by homeless.
It’s a travesty that the LA City Council would pat themselves on the back about a commitment to build a couple hundred units for homeless housing in three years. Not saying that building housing for homeless in one of the most expensive cities in the country is the solution, but pointing more to the too little too late in addressing the homeless explosion.
Skid row is just a few blocks away from the president’s hotel. (Wonder why he stayed downtown instead of his favorite tryst site, the Beverly Hills Hotel?) So is the Staples center and LA Live. Before Villaraigosa began renovating downtown, it was populated by bums, crazies and hookers. The famous Craby Joe’s dive bar was right there. You knew you’d arrived in skid row when you ended up ordering tacos from the fonda next to Craby Joe’s. The place is all upscale now with boutique bars and condos for the newly arrived Caucasians. Yet Maria and her metro-sexual BFF are terrified of seeing a poor black person down on his luck, probably Kobe now that he’s out of a job.
Where exactly do you find a city of 58,000? Over here we call that a neighborhood.
You’d be terrified to if you unexpectedly drove into a scene of real-life zombies and were unarmed. Who said they were black? And where’d the metro-sexual BFF come from? No need to be nasty.
Sorry, Monica. I’m familiar with the area that Maria is describing. You are new here so I’ll overlook your remark about being nasty. Maria is unwilling to commend the city council, instead, she excoriates them for failing to build a homeless shelter sooner.
I called her male friend a metrosexual and that was kind, I could have called him worse for his dismay at seeing homeless folks so close to them. Instead, I merely called him foppish. will I get praise for being nicer than usual?
I mentioned above that the LA climate draws people from all around the country. When folks see so many homeless, they assume it’s LA’s fault.
I had a similar experience with a stray cat. At first the cat ran from me when I found it in my yard. After a while, when it noted that I did not give chase, it merely walked away. One day, it was limping. The neighbor had plenty to say about me for not taking the poor cat to the vet. I took the cat, the vet shaved the area above its ‘hips’ and it had a couple of puncture wounds that got infected. The vet said an alpha male tom cat did that. I paid $80 to treat a stray cat because of public pressure. The neighbor never expressed any gratitude or admiration for my efforts.
That is what LA is having to do and Maria won’t even give them any credit. Moran.
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The problem is just not the leadership.It is also on the people of California. They keep electing these traitors. Here in NY the problem is similar. The Gov. here thinks the same,is just not as boisterous. Perhaps because he has national aspirations. All I can do is try and spread the truth with facts. Trying to make people understand is becoming more and more difficult. I ask what do you not get about the Gov. giving free college to illegals while our children must get in massive debt. I usually get the deer in the headlight look. Or some minor agreement.In the long run.I am the crazy guy who always gets going. Like California the traitor that runs this state imposes his ideologies on us. However….He will win again in November. It sickens me.
I wonder, how much longer will California be able to afford itself?
Que? I mean, what? Did you not read my comment above where I forgot to spell out Trump’s gall in saying Brown is mismanaging Cali while he himself is working on a $trillion dollar deficit? Would you call that competent management?