Guest Post by NicklethroweR
Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger
Than moonshine
You’re gonna go I know
-America
The fabled Ventura Highway is all that separates my artist loft from the beach where surfing first came to the United States. Both my balcony and front patio face the freeway at about eye level and I could easily smack a tennis ball right on to the ever busy 101. Access to the beach and boardwalk is very important to a Tourist Town such as mine and I can see one underpass from my balcony and another underpass from the patio. Further up the street are two pedestrian bridges. Both have been recently remodeled so that people can not use it to kill themselves by leaping down into traffic. The traffic, just like the spice, must flow and the elites that live here do not like to be inconvenienced as they dart about between Malibu and Santa Barbara.
Another feature of living where I live would have to be the homeless, the insane and the drug addicts that wander this particular neighborhood. The authorities estimate that there are more than 1100 homeless in and around my part of town but unless you too live in such a neighborhood, it can be hard to imagine so I’ll do my best to explain. Please humor me while I tell you what that looks like from ground zero.
As I wait for my morning coffee to brew, I can see the more industrious homeless pushing or pulling their junk carts from under the overpass where they spent the night. During the day, these guys will scoop up anything of value that is not nailed down. Others that I can see have their signs and will go panhandle where the tourists must exit the freeway.
Once my coffee is brewed, my cat and I go hang out on the patio where I may or may not have to chase someone away that is stealing electricity as for some crazy reason all the homeless have smart phones and other electric gadgets but few means to charge them. From my patio on the 2nd floor landing, I can look down into the central courtyard and, if early enough in the day, sometimes see people crawling out of the bushes so as to relieve themselves against a wall.
Making this problem worse is the fact that I live around a bunch of retired hippies and there is no one on Earth less capable of doing anything than a hippie. One thing that many of them have not figured out is that they should lock down their WiFi. Frankly, the quickest way to attract the kind of person that would steal a cat toy, potted plant, bicycle or everything out of your car is to have a neighbor or two broadcasting free WiFi. It is like offering Zombies brain pudding. It makes everything worse.
As for me, I work from home and try to spend as much time as possible during the day outside. After all, it is the reason I live here as it rarely rains, we have no insects to speak of and it is pretty much 72 degrees each and every day of the year. Living here and not going to the beach every day would simply be a crime but going to the beach puts me face to face with some people that should, by all accounts, be in an asylum.
The asylum crowd is easy to spot as they tend to wear everything they own even when it is warm outside. Another sign is how filthy they are. Now, you might be saying that of course they are filthy because they are homeless but that shouldn’t be the case as there are quite a few charities that gives clothes to the homeless or allows them to use a laundromat for free. I have a neighbor that plays guitar to entertain the homeless the first Tuesday of every month at a laundromat that serves the homeless and does so for free. Also, there are free public showers all up and down the beach.
Perhaps this anecdote will help put things in perspective: My daughter is out walking by herself but it is only 8 in the evening so she isn’t all that worried about late night criminal elements. She told me that she heard a noise and looked to see a bearded filthy barefoot half starved shirtless man running towards her from out of an alley. My daughter runs marathons and was able to easily outrun this man but she told me that the worse part was that the guy had both of his arms cut off at the elbows.
Luckily for her she had spent 5 years living in a tiny former hotel room right on Sunset and Vine in the center of Hollywood which is the capital of crazy in the United States. Living and working in the center of Hollywood with no car put her right out with the crazies and made her streetwise and an expert on crazy. Frankly, any normal person not used to such things might have froze like a deer in the headlights seeing an armless lunatic howling their way towards them but my girl is a pro. Anyway, the question that both my daughter and I had was why the authorities did not sweep this guy up off of the street. Clearly he was armless, hungry and out of his mind.
Let us talk about the authorities for a moment. What exactly are they doing to help? First, they threw open the borders and created sanctuary cities so that people that do not belong here can not be molested by law enforcement. Next, they decriminalized camping in public. People camping in public need something to do to while away the hours so they decriminalized drugs even going so far as to give away free needles. If that were not enough, they decriminalized theft up to $950 per day. This way any homeless person can walk into any business and brazenly steal whatever they wish without any fear of being sent to jail.
Finally, they’ve arranged things such that the police will no longer respond to 911 calls pertaining to vandalism or burglary. You can watch from your bedroom window as a homeless person smashes your car windshield with a rock so as to ransack your car and if you call 911 it will be YOU that is in trouble for tying up their emergency line as someone vandalizing and robbing your car is a non-emergency and not worthy of any kind of response. Isn’t that wonderful?
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
‘Relax’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!’
–The Eagles
Having lived in such insanity for 11 years has me wondering if I can ever really leave California behind. Has it changed me? After all, the people around me that I’ve spent time with honestly believe in UBI, that men can have babies, trans athletes, open borders, free everything, Communism, drag queen library time and that the Earth will be destroyed in 12 years because AOC says so. I’ve watched grown adults dress themselves and their children up as vaginas and parade around in our streets. The worst was being told that I was a “racist” for believing that anyone of any race can achieve their goals if they work hard. After all, “only a privileged white racist” could express something so outrageous.
I’m afraid that the one thing I will be carrying with me out of California is a numbness to human suffering. I am very worried that I will not be able to leave that numbness behind but only time will tell. I do understand that the numbness is a defense mechanism that helps me deal with the reality of Southern California. After all, you have to be numb to watch a 70+ year old woman that looks like your grandma defecating by the recycling bin. You have to be numb in order to casually step over someone passed out on the sidewalk. You have to be numb to walk past the once attractive woman that is now toothless and having a loud argument with a tree. You have to be numb to pop on Netflix while knowing that just a few hundred yards away is a homeless encampment in the dry river bottom that has hundreds of men and women sleeping in the tangles near the salt marsh. I have become comfortably numb. I didn’t before but I now 100% understand what that means.
In a few short days I will take the Ventura Highway out of town and out of California. On a positive note, my $3200 a month artist loft (parking and utilities not included) is now available to rent. What a deal, huh?
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It’s not called Crazyfornia for nuthin’ ya know.
Congratulations on your move, however one thing, please: do not bring any psychotic Progtard completely fucked-up Crazyfornia thinking with you wherever it is you are going to relocate to. Your new neighbors will very much appreciate it. Bon chance.
Do you have a specific address where I can send California more homeless and insane people? They deserve every bit of what they get. Born and raised there, lived there 30 years, watched it all go to shit and turn into a Disneyland for faggots right before my eyes. Will never go back, fuck that place and fuck the coastal Californians.
PS – don’t move to Texas. We don’t need any of that Novel California virus.
You sound just like the people here. Exactly the same. Sigh. . . . .
It’s an attitude earned from experience. I wonder if – and you may – if you realize just how much a large portion if this country would like to see California vaporized and gone forever?
You should move into my old place. You’d fit in perfectly.
I’m hoping for a 10.2 that puts the entire State in the ocean.
You don’t sound witty. What grade did you drop out of elementary school?
Spoken like a true leftist, comrade….
Not the whole state. just everything west of the fault line. We all thought Lex Luthor was the villain, he just knew what was coming.
Gotto get their produce, olive oils and other foods shipped to other states. Just don’t go on vacation there.
Your writing is excellent, and you describe well your situation. It must be difficult emotionally for you to leave a place where you’ve lived most of your life. It’s a shame you catch lip over what must be a difficult decision from run-of-the-mill assholes.
Read The Grapes of Wrath. Californians are wicked people. They deserve contempt. Anything that keeps this slow thinking freeloader out of my neighborhood is a good thing. You, too, for that matter.
You know little, yet speak much…
If Californians didn’t shit up everyplace they go, it might be different. I got Califuckups all around where I live and they usually suck. There’s the wannabe Instagram influencer around the corner who offers up exciting tips on how to live your life to her follower(s?), despite the fact in real life she claims she suffers from “invisible diseases” that prevent her from getting out of bed for more than 6 hours a day. There’s the nasty liberal grandma who always wants to argue with all the neighbors about how great California is and jam her liberal beliefs down their throats, despite the fact she’s moved here, where we deplorables are the majority. There’s the douchebags who go to the grocery store in pajamas. I know they’re not all from that shithole, but I also know the trend started there first, so thanks for that. Nothing like watching my fat redneck neighbors trying to be like cool jet set left coasters in the wallyworld. There’s the douchers with Cali plates who can’t drive. The douchers who brag about how they get terrific grades now they’ve moved here. They made the community pool a wonderful place to be with their intelligent conversation, cussing in front of Young One, and nasty attitude. Their tattoos and piercings were really cool, too. The douchers who buy up all the land and build hideous monuments to bad taste they call homes. The douchers who drive Teslas in an area where you pretty much need an F-150 to get around. They’ve done so much for us.
So you’ll have to understand if nobody wants more Californians.
Hey… Einstein… California was destroyed by people who came into the state from other states; mainly from the East Coast. The Northeast states aren’t being ruined by Californians. Virginia isn’t being ruined by Californians. Somalis aren’t being imported to Minnesota by Californians. Californians aren’t raising the house prices in Idaho; the SELLERS of those houses are gouging the Californians who move in.
You, too, know little, yet speak much…
California has destroyed itself.
You, too, know little, yet speak much…
You seem surprised that nobody wants you. Growing up is such a bitch.
Another Texas tard trying to be cute. In a national game of bounce the lemons, other states ship their homeless to Cali. I often wonder how so many white dudes ended up homeless. They came from other states, attracted by the weather, the 60’s vibe and the hippie mentality. Movie drifters sound romantic, in real life drifters don’t do so well.
Sea dog.
I can vouch for the bus vouchers. They actually play musical homeless shelter that way. Head for Cali in Nov., settle for Or. or Wa. if they have to only because its colder.
One good thing; they don’t head for my locale. For some reason the homeless don’t like 30 or 40 below zero, or 130 miles of desert at 100+. It’s all lib valley, for them.
Texas tard? Whoa sunshine, you went too far there. Texas is overrun with the idiots from California who bring their attitudes and bad manners with them. They are a plague, like locusts only worse. They bring their fiat with them and the greedy politicians suck them up and pander to them for the tax rolls and kickback and their virtue signaling is beyond the pale.
As to shipping the homeless dregs to California? Shit son, your state invites them in, makes them welcome, panders to them and gives them free needles so they can shoot up and drop them onto the shit strewn streets while allowing them to steal and commit crimes with impunity. Those Californians running away from the shitholes they allowed to happen need to go home and fix their own shit rather than turning Texas into yet another shithole.
Don’t call me son, Virginia. Keep your panties on. I did not say all Texans are tards and the particular one I addressed is a transplant. Just like the parachutists who landed in Colorado and wanted to keep the later ones out.
Are you still transfixing over the vinegar smelling panties of a couple weeks ago?
A lot of Texans think their state is a hotbed of conservatism. White children are now a minority in the schools. In a very few years, the Mexican and black kids will be voting. The big cities in Texas have been liberal for a long time now. When the minority children become 18, they will control every elected office in the state, from dogcatcher to Senator to Governor. None of this has anything to do with Californians moving into the state.
I have thought about my post here and would like to make an apology to the author, NicklethroweR. You put a lot of time and effort into your article and I apologize for my hasty writing. As a native Californian you hit a raw nerve and it makes my blood boil when I think about my formerly beautiful and somewhat reasonable state go to hell in a hand basket.
I will think twice before making such posts in the future. I do sincerely apologize.
That’s nice
And you see how the normal self-correcting nature of democracy has been circumvented by opening the border. You import a fiercely loyal constituency that will over-ride all the fed-up natives. Add to that the inexplicable warped minds of the uber-wealthy that watch this going on all around them and still can’t conceive of ever changing the way they vote. This is not compassion anymore. It is insanity.
Hi everybody. Happy Saturday morning. I have been enjoying reading the comments and I realize some folks are missing. Where are all the legalize drugs retards? S’matter dope fans, cat got your tongue? Your peeps are taking a beating here. Is there no solidarity in being stupid?
I fully support free market of drugs (and everything else). The biggest problem is allowing drug use while having a drug war – this makes high prices which increases crime to pay for the high cost of addiction. Free market will push drugs to pennies for addiction cost which will enabled accelerated, low cost path to the drug addict’s suicide. In fact, the best scenario of all would be to have non-profit charities that setup tractor trailers filled with FREE drugs placed at strategic locations. This scenario would draw the addicts to that location and enable them to have plenty of access to the drugs for the fastest, least societal impact of drug addict suicide by drugs.
Good for you Hyperborean, I have eaten some humble pie here, and a few other places.
Send them to:
Gavin Newsom
1526 H Street
Sacramento, CA, 95814
Florida is turning into a s- hole haven for drugg dealers, addicts and homeless people esp. along beach communities. Breakdown of law and order and gas stations close at 10 pm along interstates because of robberies and assaults. We left there in ’82, 90 mi inland from the panhandle beaches.
Here is the best story I can give about the mental state of California. The story is absolutely true.
I used to be in a California special education program called MGM – Mentally Gifted Minors. In 1976, our librarian who ran MGM (and had a PhD in education) scored a coup and landed a 30 minute session for our group with then Governor Jerry Brown. This would have been around 1976. Our parents would have to pay for our trip up to Sacramento and as most of us were middle middle class it was another one of those unexpected expenses that our parents couldn’t say no to. We all spent days planning questions we would ask Governor Brown and spent the prior month studying how the California legislature worked so we could impress him with how informed we were. Great excitement for us young kids – meet the Governor. Wow!
We flew up there on one of the “Flying Bananas” (remember Hughes Air West?) and almost didn’t make it to Sacramento due to mechanical problems. But eventually, after much drama, there we were. Spent the night at some low cost motel, and all piled into the van the next morning to meet Governor Brown.
So, we get to the Governor’s office and there is this big kerfuffle going on in this grassy knoll area. It took us a while to get through what was a “Save the Whales” protest (no shit, they really did protest Whale hunting) and to the Governor’s office. We all sat in the main lobby while our librarian was called into the offices – we could hear her shouting and this went on for about 5 minutes until she emerged red faced and furious. I remember the office saying something about going to see Governor Brown at the “rally”, and that’s when our librarian broke the news to us that Governor Brown had just blown of 15 of the smartest kids in Southern California to go and address the Save the Whales protest. All that money our parents spent, all our preparation to impress him just chucked aside for a quick 15 minute TV news stunt. That fucker couldn’t even give us 10 minutes.
So, ever since I have had the keen appreciation that California would rather talk about saving whales than talk to really smart kids. Fuck that place.
You don’t sound smart but then you went to school in California.
You don’t sound witty. What grade did you drop out of elementary school?
pay no mind to the norteno. there’s a reason he’s in the running for all-time most down votes on tbp.
Yes, the upvotes here favor the most homicidal egalitarianism known to on-the-stick cucks. The social disconnect becomes a sport.
The governor heard he was going to meet a bunch of special ed kids and he ran away, I would too. Cali kids are stupid, now imagine the special ed?
Look…I am sorry I screwed the pooch on R&B tooth day but stop taking swipes at my red ropedness.
these were not special ed kids, per se. this appears to be the gifted and talented class.
Come on Varmit.. just call him retarded and be done with it!
The phantom shitter downvoter hit us hard last night, old friends…
We shall regroup and renew our campaign!
Take a look at HYPO’s recovery… I don’t know when I’ve seen a hundred or more thumbs UP!
It has nevah happened! Hypo is gaming the thumbs!
75% of the people who like Hypo above seem to dislike you. Take a hint.
Do you really think we have a shot at recovering from Blue Tuesday last Wednesday if you continue to insult the popular people? Haven’t you learned a thing about public relations during your time in the trenches here?
Is this about the popular kids and the anti-socials; we’re back in high school Miss Valedictorian?
Whales are people too.
I wanted to come back and humbly apologize to all those who disagree with my glib statement. Whales, of course, are NOT people at all.
(Thanks for the fine example, Hypo.)
Now you’ve got Stacey Abrams mad at you. Make up your mind, will you?
Way to recover with a sincere and humble apology. I’m hoping EC takes a hint. He could use some lessons in civil discourse.
Especially the part about not knowing what he thinks he knows.
Maybe the mail order Medicaid contractor forgot to send his meds?
Shaddup, peqqer. You just want to mouth off because you don’t want to waste the opportunity to flame somebody from California. Dumb fucker.
Lived in California (now Crazyfornia) for a few years after college at the end of The Golden Age in nothing less than Santa Barbara and Montecito.
I know just how great the place was 40 years ago. Joe’s on State, Isla Vista & Borsodi’s Coffee House, Hope Ranch for a nice view, and the ENterprise Fish Company, Arroyo Burro Beach etc. in S.B. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Musso and Franks’ , Chasen’s, Santa Monica etc. in L.A. Little Joe’s on Broadway, Canton for dim sum breakfast and people brought their birds, Japantown, and an It’s It in GOlden Gate Park – S.F. Red Rocks. Ojai with Krishnamurti, Esalen , sailing off the Channel Islands, Lake Cachuma, Pt COnception for crabbing and Ling Cod……and road trips to T.J and Ensenada to Hussong’s Cantina…
Brings back many, many great memories. Not very many homeless. Very little crime. Had to visit inner L.A. or Bakersfield for that.
Now look at it: working on true third world shithole status from being the envy of the world.
I’m living next to some very nice people who just escaped from L.A. and they tell me about the homeless, crime, crazies, feces, rats and taxes.
Happy there are survivors from the open air lunatic that has been constructed. Again I recommend have some Thorazine if one feels like bringing today’s Crazyfornia operating principles to their relocation landing site.
And, EC, if you are feeling a wee cranky you should have some Thorazine too. Rectally is indicated in your case.
Thank you, Dr Peqqer. We should meet up so we can insert each other’s Thorazine.
Fucken hilarious! Missed it by that much…
Varmit just call him a Pepper and see what happens!
He’d be wearing a May West fer sure.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/11/27/10-canadian-snack-cakes-that-will-make-you-forget-about-twinkies/
For some nostalgia that will make you sob, Google “Martin Turnbull Hollywood Photos”
you won’t regret it.
When California was truly the exemplar of both the pinnacle of The American Century and of The Twentieth Century; simply fantastic.
And now just look what we have done to it.
Jesus wept.
You idiots that would blindly defend a third-world shithole are on par with the blue team-Marxists who so quickly discount the tens of millions dead by this sick ideology, or the rah-rah neocons who wave the flag as the US drone bombs a few thousand more black and brown children “for democracy.”
Your closed minded defense of the indefensible is sick.
EC: Just because you’re having a bad day doesn’t mean you need to troll the comments with nastiness. If you don’t drink then start and if you’re drinking, quit.
You are in our prayers as well, child.
You beat me to it. Don’t come here either. We already have waaaay too many ex crazfornians here complaining about crazfornia and then voting for the other crazfornians who are turning our state in to another third world sh*t hole.
Don’t come here, its horrible, no one wants you here.
If I recall correctly, NicklethroweR was/is one of the more liberty minded, Libertarian posters here. I doubt he’d be voting for any leftist nonsense.
worry less about about the few thousand from CA and more about texas being 40% white due to the millions from EC land.
I’m from Texas, you wetback.
I’m sorry in advance to all wetbacks, but I had to pop in and suggest the pot is calling the kettle a wetback.
(Yes, I know you are NOT one, but you probably could have passed for one in a movie, unlike tadpole.)
One of the two Wolf Boys likewise was from Texas; things did not turn out so well for him.
Wolf boys : two American teenagers and Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel / Dan Slater
California
Paul McCartney
You’d think that people would want to be nice to California
I look around me and I see it isn’t so
Some people want to rid the world of California
And what’s up with that
I’d like to know
Cali’s where it all began
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I can’t explain the feeling’s plain to me, can’t you see
Ah, she gave me more, she gave it all to me now can’t you see
What’s up with that
I need to know
Cali’s where it all began
I love you, I love you
Tard doesn’t want to be in it
Morons don’t want to come at all
I only know that when I’m in it
She isn’t dirty, Cal isn’t dirty, Cal isn’t dirty at all
How can I tell you about my Cali
How can I tell you about my Cali
How can I tell you about my Cali
How can I tell you about my Cali
I love you, I love you
I love you
(I can’t explain the feeling’s plain to me, say can’t you see)
I love you
(Ah, she gave me all, she gave it all to me to me, say can’t you see)
I love you
(I can’t explain the feeling’s plain to me, say can’t you see)
I love you
(Ah, she gave me all, she gave it all to me to me, say can’t you see)
I love you
(I can’t explain the feeling’s plain to me, say can’t you see)
I love you
(Ah, she gave me all, she gave it all to me to me, say can’t you see)
You’d think that people would want to be nice to California
I look around me and I see it isn’t so, oh no
Some people want to rid the world of California
What’s up with that?
We like to go to Austin. Thanks for the legislative pointers to watch for.
Austin is working on creating the same world. It’s about 10 years behind. The recent state intervention to clean out the homeless camps around the interstates did nothing but piss off the progressives, who you can bet are going to pass new laws that favor the homeless.
Austin is now a shithole on par with San Francisco and Seattle.
https://images.wsj.net/im-119926?width=620&size=1.5
That area under the highway is way too clean to be in California, but give Austin time, it will devolve to true Cali depths. I walk very early in the morning in a suburban SoCal neighborhood. There are alot of invisible homeless. They come barging out of bushes. Yesterday, a crazy or drugged young man called my dog and walked across a busy street to try and pet him. Later on, I was walking by a big clump of eucalyptus trees and some guy coughed from in there. It was still dark and very unsettling. We are leaving Cali. I can get a $700,000 Cali house for $300k to $350k (or much less) in So. Carolina or many other places. I can invest the other $400,000. Also, instead of paying property taxes of 1.2% on $700k, I can pay .5% on $300k. That is another $500/Mo savings & SC exempts a certain amount of retirement income from State taxes. I can afford to financially stay here, but emotionally it is taking a toll and I see no positive change on the horizon. Of course, if I decide to come back and attend a CSU, I would first have to establish residency in TJ to get in-state tuition. Nutz. Three of my closest high net worth buddies have already escaped to other states. I had been thinking of Reno, but a buddy there told me it is changing due to an inmigration of Californios. By the way, the Spanish coats from Barcelona to Malaga very much reminds me of California in the 1960s.
coast
I’m so disgusted by the world I won’t even bother making up a big tall tale for Q-Q-Q-ball about how the fashion in coats in Barcelona to Malaga was all the fashion in California in the 60s, as well.
coast
You seem to be missing the point of all the outrage, QBall. NetFlix basically said the same things you did and got his balls skewered and slapped on a hibachi. The Philistines in the hinterlands do not like for Californians to sell their over-priced hovels in LA or SF and buy a mansion in Petticoat Junction. It raises their house prices out of reach for everybody but other California ex-pats.
It happens in Oregon, it happens in Texas, it happens in Arizona and it happens in Nevada. But if you listen very closely, nobody says a damn thing about the Yankees moving out of NY, Chicago and Detroit and heading for Texas and Arizona. Oh, no, that would violate their special privilege. That is why I flamed Joe the Yankee for moving to Texas and trying to keep Californians out.
One of the most beautiful state capitol buildings I ever visited is in Austin. Not sure I’d want to go visit that city again any time soon.
Nickle – You paint a very vivid picture of a place that was once beautiful, but has been taken over by progressive politicians. Is there anything they cannot ruin with their policies?
The problem is the voters.
The demographics, they are a changing and as the progs gain power, they change the rules to gain even more power.
Actually, the root problem is universal suffrage. When any low-IQ, useless bag of protoplasm is allowed to vote on the direction our country should take, they elect the Bernies and Bloombergs who promise free everything, earning the sobriquet “useful idiots,” as Lenin used to call them.
Jut before he executed them.
It’s the demographics. Period.
No, Iska is right, it’s the voters. Hispanics down’t vote and they are way under-represented despite being a majority in So Cal. Curiously, even California natives, people born and raised here are forced to leave in order to prosper.
I recently went to LA, beach side, Santa Monica. The homeless have taken over a small park on the oceanfront. Literally, a multimillion dollar view/place owned by the homeless. The people paying millions to live close by can’t use it – too many crazies and too many filthy misfits. In town I saw a 45 year-old (?) one time attractive woman pissing in the swale next to the road without a care in the world.
I couldn’t wrap my brain around millionaires shoulder to shoulder with the homeless, unaware of each other. It just crazy land. Good luck. Keep it, it’s all yours. Glad to be visiting, happier to have left in asylum.
To what white man does that cultivated state of affairs not mean war? I don’t respect white men. Haven’t for years. I’m the crazy one.
what?
Allow me to translate for you:
Hey, cracka – it’s a MF’in conspiracy against U and yo’ kind. Right there in yo’ grill, and not only do you NOT see it, you ax what it means. F you stupid honkies for not fighting back an’ dissin’ yo’ kind. An’ I’m nuts? Sheeit.
Thank you. ‘Tis poetry.
“I couldn’t wrap my brain around millionaires shoulder to shoulder with the homeless, unaware of each other.” Just visit any other third world country. It’s a common state of things in most of the world. Compassion and charity are pretty much Christian and Western Civ constructs.
“Glad to be visiting, happier to have left in asylum.
What country granted you asylum?
Don’t come to Texas. We are closed.
There is nothing any Californian can tell me that they’re here to strengthen the conservative spirit of our state.
The windfall you guys get when you sell your shack for twice what a 3500 sq ft house in Houston or Dallas goes for and you don’t protest your taxes fucks the rest of us.
I look to Austin as a fit example.
Thanks Mom and Dad for moving us here in ’64.
My daughter was born and grew up in Texas. My sister runs a clinic for autistic children in Texas. Her husband works for the local Roman Catholic Diocese and teaches priests how to become priests. I’m headed back to the Midwest where I grew up and I hope to God that none of my neighbors are like you. You sound just like the people here -close minded and bigoted.
Wahh. Gibsmedat.
Don’t underestimate the value of being close-minded. Open-mindedness is what started the problems out there. A total lack of discernment and willingness to call a spade a spade.
Your comment gets my vote for Best in the Thread, Iska.
True. “Tolerance,” to extremes, is for those having no convictions.
Booya!
I called the spade by its rightful name and got massively down voted. Name calling is not going to work. Calling is not going to work. Hollering is not going to work. Solutions are obvious. Cucks deny me. Funny how the gentle wording above gets all kinds of up votes. There is nothing to negotiate with the likes of Nickels. If this is hard to understand, your gene pool contributions are unwelcome.
You are Correct – Diversity is Division whereas Variety is The Spice of Life, Discrimination is Using your Brain to Avoid Bad Situations & Bad Things along with bad People whereas Tolerance is the Acceptance of All Evil whereas Demons portraying themselves as Humans who Justify All their behaviors as “Love” are really just Predators whose use Word Magic to Fool the Gullible People & Prey on The Stupid Ones & anybody who believes you Ever get Anything for Free is Not capable of Survival in the Real World. So Yes to have a Brain & use it & Refusing to Believe that Men are Women & Illegals are Citizens or that California is Actually a Great Place means You Are Not Insane. Thank You!
Most underrated comment.
Iska, if I am not mistaken, that is the highest upvote count I have ever seen on TBP. Bravo.
I don’t understand the hate being hurled at you Nickel… not a bit. You obviously strum the same strings as a lot of folks around here.. Hardly sound preachy. Just sound fed up with the insanity. Anyways PA is great choice and not that far from the Right shore. Plenty of beaches here and though they are a bit cold they are free of vagrants and clean!
Beaches? There are no beaches in PA. No saltwater ones anyway.
PA is a shadow of its former wonderfulness. The overflow of shitheads from Newyawk & Joisey have destroyed the eastern parts of the state in the last 30 to 40 years.
Piitsburg was one of the top 10 cities in the US not all that long ago. Not so much anymore.
Philly was a great place to visit in the 70s & 80s, but… read Admin’s 30 blocks pieces.
Oh… rural VA sucks too. Nothing but inbred chicken-fuckers. Stay away from VA. You wont like it here.
I was for Nickle before he basically called us Texans; closed-minded and bigoted.
EC, you guys are practically neighbors. I would have thought you guys would be meeting over drinks on a fairly regular basis
I live even closer to Hollywood Rob but the socio-economic distance is vast. Nickleback pays in rent what I make in a month. And HR is a rich Yankee transplant from Noo Yawk City.
OMG… was he from Fucking, NY too?
You didn’t know? His Yankee manners shined so brightly.
you done scared mags outside into the tulip beds
that was one crazee dude and i for one am glad he don’t pipe up no more
i am retired for the most part
Being close-minded and bigoted has redeming values in that you know what your values are.
Come to South Dakota. Low crime, affordable housing and no left wing lunacy but we do have a few right wing nuts.
They will be useful one day.
The place is crawling with Germans just like Nebraska, Centex and Milwaukee.
You’re saying the people in Ventura are close minded and bigoted?
I don’t think he meant that exactly, but I suppose he has had his share of shit from the dumbfucks, they are found in Cali and in Texas. They think they own the state when they don’t even own their ideas.
They have no reason or capacity to believe otherwise until their status as
useful idiotsuseless eaters is consummated. And I like your latest ‘pseudo-names’. One in particular. In my fantasies.“I’m headed back to the Midwest … .”
Good. Stay there, dirtbag.
I’ve always thought it would be nice to have somewhere to go back to, but I was born and raised in California, a child of the gear central valley. Victor Davis Hanson writes well about it. We are the same age and we lived about 45 miles apart growing up. It was wonderful. I now live in Oakland where my mother was born and raised, and it has been on the same downward trajectory as the rest of the state. It has always been somewhat dangerous here, but funnily I’ve never worried until the past 5 years or so. I think it would be nice to move, but my grandparents are buried a mile from where I sit as I type this, and someone has to put the flowers on their graves come October, and say an Ave for them. So, I imagine i will stay, and make the best of it.
I wish you the best of luck in your new life.
VDH’s recently released book-“The Case for Trump”-is typical VDH and well worth the read.
The Midwest is also going to turn into a shithole when progressives overrun the place. The problem with liberals /progressives is that they tolerate and promote the intolerable. What kept diseases of filth in check were hygiene laws and hygienic practices. Today those laws are racist, never mind the spread of disease and filth and destroyed businesses, we gots to take care of losers at the expense of hardworking citizens.
Sorry, can’t get too sympathetic with whining liberals who ignore reality to support a fantasy world, who trash what is good and valuable to placate the useless dregs and takers. What supports a place when the good people are run off and replaced by losers who chose to be filthy? Look at the slums of Calcutta, those people are poor in a third world country, then look at the street shitters in what was once a first world country, see the difference? This country has opportunity for being successful, unlike the untouchables of India who were and are given none. .
If what I wrote makes me bigoted then I wear that mantle with dignity, I refuse to sugar coat a poison pill and I really don’t give a shit what progressives think or believe, they live a fantasy and want normal people to acquiesce to their fantasy world. . .
BTW: since when do laymen teach priests how to be priests? Has the Church now outsourced that too?
Nickel is no whining liberal, asshole.
Go hover up some carbon monoxide and go fuck yourself IluvCO2.
Listening to your Nickel trash talk folks who are indeed suffering from California over-running and ruining Texas like they did Colorado, Oregon, Washington, nd other points east gets old. Sorry, no good has come from CA running away from itself and infecting other places with their ‘progressive’ ideals and fiat money that has essentially destroyed the Hill Country and what was once lovely places with grotesque and hideous mcmansions and suburban sprawl .
Hoover
So, Bernie’s your guy, eh?
People who fall back to virtue signaling drivel don’t mean that much to me.
Ha! Your an asshole. However, you illustrate the Texas mentality perfectly.
You’re…
No, your the asshole.
Urine
Sorrry but the award for thread assholery goes to a certain coyote.
I like you. I will pray for you first, child.
Mygirl
Coy Dog is not even close in that race. He might get a participation trophy. We have people here who think Vaporizing Japan and N. Korea was doing God a favor.
“Don’t come to Texas. We are closed…..Thanks Mom and Dad for moving us here in ’64.” – Dumbfuck Joe
Mighty duplicitous. If that’s humor, it needs work. Take out the imitation of Sarah Silverbutch and you’ll be close to funny.
That was a line from MASH the tv show.
To all the Texans that think they are so “perfect,” I would mention Connelly, LBJ, W. Bush, Ted Cruz, and Rick Perry just to name a few. Of course YOU didn’t vote for any of them, just like MILLIONS of Californians didn’t vote for the shit they are forced to live under in their legislature and governor’s mansion. Until 100% of the eligible citizens are voting, and until 100% of the votes are cast for progressive/liberal criminals, there will remain a certain percentage that object heavily to what is being done to them, who continue to fight for freedom and vote for “better” candidates, and who are unable (for external or internal reasons) to leave the state for somewhere “better.” And please identify the “perfect” state for them to run to with their freedom-oriented attitudes? Because my point can be made about ALL 50 states, though for some the positives outweigh the negatives by a lot more than in others.
And full disclosure, my wife and I are BOTH CA natives who left after 35 or so years living there. We worked tirelessly for the Libertarian party and I even ran for State Senate in the mid 90s. We were fortunate to have an employer move us both to GA, where we continued with our ant-government sentiment. CA was a great place to grow up. My parents kept me out of the government monopoly schools, and my wife’s schools were full of kids of engineers (mostly white and asian), so we both got great educations. NOWHERE in America is the way it used to be….because of Progressive policies that have destroyed BOTH major political parties. Some places have been a bit more immune than others, but it is all about picking the lesser of many evils as far as living is concerned.
Good comment, but George W. Bush wasn’t really a Texan. He was a Massachusetts blue blood Yankee who moved to Texas, faked a Texas drawl, and fooled millions of idiot Republicans into thinking he was a good ol’ boy. The same retards who thought George W. Bush was a good president are probably largely the same Trumptards who still haven’t figured out that Trump is a Democrat in Republican clothing.
Okay, W. Bush was a fake and a Neo Con controlled clown. But Trump? I don’t care for the guy literally sucking off Israel but he did put Americans back to work. He should have been impeached for lobbing bombs at Syria and having foreign leaders killed.
I dunno what Trump is, all I know is that the guy is not real.
He says he’s pro 2A and pro-constitution, fact is he’s pro-redflag and pro-stop-and-frisk. He ran on an anti-war platform, now he appears to be giving the zionists and neocons a run for the title “World Warmonger”. Says he’s gonna drain the swamp but …… nada …… zip ….. zero. Pardons a half dozen Wall Street megabanks for fraud. Trump says “Hire Americans” but in 2016-2017, Trumps businesses had 144 jobs available — they hired ONE American and 143 H-2B foreign workers got the rest of the jobs. And this only scratches the surface.
I can hardly believe how patriots can be so blind to this joker. The lessor of two evils IS. STILL. EVIL.
Waah!! Trump hasn’t undone 60 years of liberal shitbaggery in less than 4 years!!He’s a traitor!!! Waah!
Drinking the Kool-aid much?
This is simply a current example:
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/seasonal-workers-h-2b-visas/2020/02/21/id/955091/
The Texas ‘State of Mind’ is one where Texas is everything and everything is bigger in Texas. Poor little fools.
I heard Alaska is the new Texas.
No shit, the abominable snowman wants it all to his lonesome.
Nah. No Mexicans.
Welp, you claim to be Texan….
did you just say the jew word lol for the absolute destruction of a nation ? omg do some research for fucks sake . synagogue of satan if I remember right
What is this? A government for ants?
+1
Excellent. I invite you to write something for TBP
did neptune die and make you king
Lol…couldnt help it
well thats different your highneyness
i like a little heiny
You don’t like Ted Cruz? Tsk. As to Texas politicians, well Jerry Brown and Gavin hisself would give LBJ and Castro a run for the money. Bush and clan were frauds, carpet baggers masquerading as Texans. You forgot Travis and Houston and Austin in your diatribe against Texans, rather selective there. As to bragging about Libertarians? A noble and just philosophy that is doomed from the get-go when the takers overwhelm the producers in a society and NWO globalists (aka: oligarchical Marxists) push the PC/diversity mantra to create a divide in society in order to gain power.
I know just what that place needs: About three straight days of -10F.
So kill hundreds, destroy flora and fauna? Sounds like you dropped your mouth clutch before engaging your gray matter shift lever there Iska.
I thought for that it needs three straight days 100F, 50 mph winds and 10% relative humidity?
Sounds like any Middle Eastern country I worked in during summertime. Unfortunately they’re still full of bass-ackward Arabs, Third World ex-pat workers, and f-cking sand gnats.
The WEATHER isn’t the issue.
Yeah, it was an inhumane comment. Wishing death upon thousands (not hundreds) isn’t good – and I don’t really wish that, but I’m not sure that death is worse than a life of deep psychosis and/or inescapable addiction, living in filth. If this virus afflicts all peoples equally, the homeless camps in CA will be ground zero anyway. God forbid.
That was a fantastically delightful, laugh-out-loud funny, and disturbingly sad article. Thank you for the behind-the-lines report from the trenches, Nickel. Godspeed.
Thank you Nicklethrower for that on street reporting, sincerely. It is hard for me to comprehend what you are saying, I just can’t imagine living like that. This old Hillbilly couldn’t get out of a place like that fast enough. I am visualizing the push bumper on my old 53 chevy coming in handy on the way out; if anyone tried to stop me.
I would gladly help you move but under the circumstances I better stay right here or I would probably end up dead. Darn, I wont forget your story for awhile, probably never.
I’ve been lurking here at TBP since nearly the beginning. Most of the people that used to post here are long gone. I’ve had a number of musings posted over the years from my experiences here in California but I’ve been somewhat quiet since after the election which is probably why some people are being very disrespectful. I stop by TBP each and every day, have donated to help keep it open but I’ve had little time to comment much as of late because of the dire need to get myself and my family somewhere safe.
Project Veritas was no lie and I meet a lot of people that very much believe that all business owners should be thrown into woodchippers and their businesses given to “the people”. Some might say, “you voted for that!” but I’ve never given any of my support to any of it.
Thanks for your kind words.
It’s way past Old Timers bedtime so I am going to turn in. But if I may, I would like to say, don’t let your love wax cold because iniquity is abounding. Matt. 24:12 And if you are ever in the Ozarks, give me a shout, and I mean it. [email protected] In the mean time, I will be praying for you and your family to get out of there safe, and just so you know, I mean that too.
Past my bedtime, too. It’s time to hit the hay, as we say around these here parts.
Yes Ma’m!
are you older than mags
i am 48 and holding
Holding what, sweet cheeks?
only thing worth holding
He’s adorable. I loves me some Otto.
NickelthroweR,
I ran across one of your comments a while back on Zero Hedge on an Admin post they had picked up. A few blather mouths were deriding him for his views, and you were stanch in defending him, and TBP’s commenters.
We have exchanged a few comments but it has been years. I always found you thoughtful and witty.
I too am an internal State expat from a Liberal/Progressive Looney Tune Bin (NJ) having learned to despise my hometown for all the Right reasons, every pun intended.
I wish you the best in your next chapter, what you will lose in weather you hopefully will find in personal security and community sanity, and as LLPH states every time he posts, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
After you are settled and the LCTSD (Left Coast Traumatic Stress Disorder) is treated with heavy doses of common sense liberty, freedom, and hopefully seriously armed self-defense in your new castle, please write an update to the new adventure!
I seem to recall your handle…..didn’t you post about the Thomas Fire as you were pretty close to ground zero on that? FYI….Grew up in Oxnard. (Since I’m almost POSITIVE I know your locale you’ll get this: went to high school with Yvon Chouinard’s nephew in the mid-70s. Ammi right? LOL) UCSB, LA, Jersey for a while in the 90s. OC since about 2000. I’m about done. Midwest you say? Both sides of family originally from Michigan. That’s probably not in the cards, but other Western / Southwestern states are pretty nice.
Nickel, you have been around here a long time, and have shared many stories and insights of your life and business. I’ve always found you to be one of the more interesting points of view around here. The plague around the Platform for a while has been nutjob liberals who don’t believe that they are nutjob liberals. They have no grounding. So instead of getting wisdom and reasoning that comes from negotiating the minefield that is life, you get teeth marks on the cuff of your pants. I’d have left, too. Good luck to you settling in wherever you’re going, and I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Best of luck Nickel, have enjoyed your insights for years. Don’t know how or why you put up with that shit for so long. And I want to thank you again for your correspondence with me a few years ago about audio engineering and my son. But why greater Pittsburg? Go someplace warmer.
Nickel – good to see you. I am amazed how you have been treated on this thread. You are a founding monkey, and deserve respect.
You are one of the originals. I have not forgotten you, that is for damn sure.
Thanks for posting this.
I’m sure the fucktards did not read his article. They merely read that somebody from California wanted to leave and they jumped on his ass like he was the one who shit on the streets and supported a drug habit with scrounging and shoplifting. Some go into brainwashed overdrive and claim they don’t want him coming to ‘their’ state. The damn pecker puffers don’t own even a quarter acre of land but they somehow own the entire state.
That’s the state of affairs in ZeroHedge as well and probably nationwide; absolute morons that have been programmed to respond to certain triggers and stimuli with knee-jerk phrases like ‘commiefornia’ ‘cuck’ ‘liberal left’ ‘USA USA USA’. The knuckle draggers have reverted to a Biff mentality, bullying and attacking new things that make them afraid. Fucking Mongos.
Nickel has been here forever, and NH would be better off if he moved here. Fuck those don’t move here assholes.
EC – these morons have no idea what liberty is about. Nickel does not need their damn permission. He is a free man, and a citizen of the country.
He has more sense in his pecker than these cretins have in their entire bodies.
I really do not understand how these dickheads ended up on TBP. Prolly because Admin, Stuck, you, I and others do not have time to cull the herd like we used to.
Those were the days before HR, like a damn George Michael, refused to be shamed for acting like a coward. Now we have his progeny – idiots who refuse to show any guilt or sense of shame. It used to be that a man reacted to being called out. Now, they merely say, my bad or whatever. There is no sense of honor in them, no responsibility or anything. They just walk in here and talk stupid shit that they think makes them look special. “Don’t come to my state!” We might not approve to find they are fucking their sister if we went there.
Yeah, progeny of HR run rampant because the shit throwing monkeys big dogs have lost their bark. Sense of honor? Seems the double standards here are massive…the ‘oldtimers’ can trash anyone and anything but woe betide those who toss said shit back cause they got no respeckt.
I trust you have been treated nicely, Miss Kitty? Thank the big dogs who cleaned up this wild west of a place long ago.
Myg -you really are a stupid bitch. Not everyone is equal. Services rendered make certain folks special and worthy of respect. This is Admin’s site, but there are some folks that helped make it what it was, and is, via commenting and posting. Nickel is one such.
You haven’t done shit for this place. So what say you shut the fuck up.
BTW – the big dogs can still bark, but it takes time, which some of us lack at the moment. Plus dealing with fuckwits like you who do not understand that contributions matter when it comes time to cut slack grows old.
EC-how many of your nieces still have their virginity?
Wonderful observations. What a shame. They fucked up paradise. Safe travels friend.
Is Calizuela an insult to Venezuela? Sad.
There is no place that is safe. The governor of Missouri, along with several other Rethuglican governors, has offered to take in more refugees than the Federal Gov has asked. Wasn’t that nice? Then, when some people at a town hall tried to hold his feet to the fire, he basically told then to “eff off” because “you will still vote for me, anyway”. At least with the Demorats, you know what you are getting.
So, you might be safe in the midwest for a couple years, if you are lucky. There is only one way to stop this, and you know what it is.
Btw, some of you are…I’m looking for a word that is stronger than rude without being crude and I can’t find one. Anyway, Nickel is the kind of California refugee that you would want for a neighbor. There’s a house going up for sale across the road from me. It’s a mite bigger than an artists loft, though. Too big for us and we have 1650 sf. But I would take you any day for a neighbor. There is a truly crazy person that lives a mile down the road. It’s kinda scary when I’m alone. There are crazy people everywhere.
The viral load can vary a bit.
miss mary , invest is self defense options . there are many from non lethal to lethal . Don’t live in fear please . Life is to short to live in fear . Be Adequate to whatever level of fear you think may come across your path .Also , just a pro tip ,, don’t worry bout what some scumbags feelings are , they dead ,you well ,are just a bright ray of sunshine .
And practice . just a cook / be well ,maaam
is why i got my bigass bulldogs
you got big dogs like mags dont u
thanks for writing this Nickel. for years i’ve appreciated your smart/thoughtful comments.
the weather’s a bit iffy here, and we’re way behind trends, but i bet you’d like it around pittsburgh PA.
Steubenville is where I’m headed. I’ll be 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh.
Thanks Nick.
Sad and powerful story. I don’t understand why some people ate beating up on you here. Best of luck. I don’t understand how there can be sooooo much “bad government”
Best of luck in your new home.
should be “are” not ate
nice. we’re about 45 mins north of pittsburgh and go there often. we also drive west to the poland/boardman area occasionally to do some shopping.
are you in a music related or 3d printing field?
Media and Entertainment though I do play a mean guitar. I also invent and manufacture electronics for the recording and broadcast industry. Almost all of my parts are fabricated in the United States and assembly is done in a factory just outside of Disneyland. I refuse to use cheap labor.
i’ve played bass guitar for many years, so once you get settled if you’d like to get together with a fellow TBPer we could have a “welcome to the area” jam session. you’d be more than welcome at our humble shack.
i’d welcome insight on recording. my set-up’s pretty rough.
Count me in!
i’m sincere, so please don’t hesitate to contact me once you get settled. admin has my email address.
and oops, anon above who mentioned poland/boardman was me…
Jam session? Find the song Sonic Prayer by Earthless if you want to hear a jam session.
that song is heavy duty ⭐️
Hopefully both of you can bring your guitars to HSF’s farm for the TBP second annual BBQ & BS session during the 4th of July weekend!
Nickel: I have a similar kind of story. Grew up in NYC. Paramedic in the South Bronx for 12 years. I, too, became completely numb to human suffering. Moved to rural NH 11 years ago after 50 years in that hell hole. Now I can’t see another house in any direction. My town doesn’t even have a gas station, and two hundred square miles without a single traffic light.
Now…that is cool…a Jam Secession!
I can offer two good ears and provide security.
Just mentioning.
Jam Secession=concert idea gold!
I have a bass guitar! 🙂 I also have 21 other guitars ranging from cheap SX guitars for travel to Gibson Les Pauls, SGs, Fender Strats and Teles. I also have a few acoustic guitars. Namely a 12 string Simon and Patrick, six string Fender, Martin and a Yamaha. Yes, I have a home studio! All of these instruments are of the left hand variety which means I am actually in my right mind! 😀 Whoops! Left out the fact I have more than a few electric Epiphone guitars. Ha! Ha!
However, I currently live in Memphis, Tennessee. I will also be relocating sometime in the near future to get away from the gangster/thug environment prevalent here.
None Ya Biz,
Make sure you check out the vid ‘Is posted below, ‘Is there any place safe to live’ I posted below, has some insights and advice.
Good luck!
Biz – We left Shelby County behind about 16 years ago and have not missed anything. We are still close enough to make the shopping trip every week and to find a restaurant or two, but generally avoid Memphrica as much as possible. Since I retired 4 years ago, my trips into the city are down to about once a month, and then just on the outskirts.
Good luck on your relocation.
I have a friend in the music business in KC which is a short 45 minutes away. He writes and produces. He had album release party last Monday we were invited to but it would have got us home far too late.
You would find a vital music scene there.
I expect to. Hollywood is just the factory where everything is assembled. The source and the talent lives in the heartland.
If you ever need any vacuum tubes for your designs let me know. I still have about 2,000 of them. All US made and new old stock.
Glad to see that you’re getting away from the crazies on the left coast.
I hope your new home works out well for you.
Don’t be a stranger around here. I always enjoy your comments and this essay is wonderful.
You paint a picture with words.
Haven’t been to Steubenville for years, a bit big for my tastes but OH has a lot of nice places still. We live in Western PA, but would like to eventually move to West Virginia for lower taxes, warmer weather, and more similar politics. Philly has way too much influence and PA could easily go the way of Virginia, whereas most of the small towns and rural areas end up having to deal with CA style gun control and all the rest.
Good luck to you and your family, hopefully you can hide from some of the insanity at least if you don’t spend too much time on the internet. Moving isn’t an easy thing, we contemplate it alot but having our parents still in PA makes moving even 3-4hours away something that would be difficult. We have some friends in Pittsburgh and we are lucky to see them twice a year, proxemics is really powerful and with work and kids traveling is extremely difficult, when the drives are longer then the visits.
Thanks for the new-to-me word, “proxemics”…
I grew up in Weirton. DiCarlos pizza is still the best!! I spent 33 years in CA and left a few months ago. Escaped is really the word. I live in NC now and we love it here. Neighbors actually talk to one another! However, I can see already how they are trying to turn Raleigh into another Sacramento. Not good. I loved the California I arrived in…the 1986 one. I had some great job opportunities and lots of travel and fun. Then I quietly left. And hardly felt a thing.
Nickles.
Have a good trip. Buy the house by Mary.
But for the grace of God there go I. The NWO plans to have all of us non top 3% living like that.
I was once one of those people. Anyone here long enough to have read My War can attest to it.
Mine was self inflicted 40 years ago. These people have had their minds rotted mostly without their consent nowadays. Iv’e tried and cried trying to help some of them make it back but they haven’t the brain capacity barring a divine miracle.
I try to save my anger for those with full decks who make a sport of being a dork.
Once agin Nickle, have a good trip and if you can’t buy Near Mary try Maggies town in Poplar Bluff. Sweet town not too far from Memphis.
9 acres beside us for sale!
M G,
Now that’s thinking like a survivor.
The real estate broker (now retired) who sold us this plot (both of them… she collected a lot of tax sale plots around here over 30 years in the business. I don’t even mind that she made 2000% (2000 per acre versus 100 per she paid 15 years prior) profit from the sale: she’s a savvy businesswoman and her husband invested in her business and they got richer after he retired.
Anyway, she still owns that 9 acre lot and I told her we are interested in paying her 500 dollars more than anyone else will give her for it. If we decide we don’t want them next door.
Haha… Nickel would make the cut, I think. As would a few others around here.
Very smart indeed.
is mine if i want it lol
Tell me about these 9 acres. I would be the best neighbor because 1) you’d never see me 2) I wouldn’t build anything that did not match the environment/neighborhood (lol…neighborhood) and 3) I share with good people.
i will text her and tell her to take a picture
you and me and ec will share it haha
I’ll send a picture, but is a strip about a mile long 200 yards deep with both clear land and some trees along a blacktop highway. Is fenced in the woods. Is grown up pretty badly because nobody wants to pay what she thinks it is worth.
Yaun tosser,
You have always been a favorite poster of mine, and I am so happy for you that you are finally getting away from the fires, the homeless and the criminals. I’m sure you can make and ship your black boxes in PA. Bon voyage, and blessings to you. I hope that this move makes your life one hundred times better. Please let us know when you get settled in, in the real world. High five, Sir.
Yuan
yawn
My opinion of the Cali mess is that it has been very slyly contrived by the usual suspects. The opportunities for making serious bank in Cali has maxed out, so they have let the place go to hell and once the decent folk leave, they will seriously burn that mutha’ down.
When it has been destroyed, the phoenix will rise again when they can sell the real estate for big profit or construct retail areas in the future style they have on the drawing board. California will boom again when it is more profitable for the elites..
I know a lot of you don’t believe in climate change, but I went to a presentation this afternoon by a meteorologist (now independent, used to work for NOAA, etc.) that was fairly dire. CA is screwed, as far as he is concerned: will be the biggest loser in the climate disruption to come. So TPTB may be figuring on cutting it loose.
Excellent article.
Congrats on leaving, though I imagine its with a lot of conflicting emotions. I am always pleased when one more sane person gets the hell out of Dodge. Bitter-sweet for you, though, no doubt.
Vid says it all. This is really well done.
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For those for whom the vid is denied.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9lvzs
Sounds like a preview of a coming Attraction..
A long time ago when I was young I spent my daze watching shows on TV broadcast from what was the land of milk and honey. It was Cop shows that showed me how beautiful it was in Southern California to me.
Even the bad people were beautiful!
How easy it was to enjoy the sunshine and lollipops while the good guys worked and the bad guys were caught.
A wonderful time… Pure Rex Americana!
Liberals and their want of good intentions destroyed it.
And replaced all of it with filth and shit
It must be tuff putting lipstick on a pig when it is shitting in your alley.
Nickel, how did you do it! You are better man than me for living there, that’s for sure. An armless vagrant and Grannies shitting in a public space is a bridge too far for a chump like me. Willful ignorance now being the only cure, when solutions are elusive in the decline to despair with grief complete. The time for a turnaround won’t be found until history rhymes and then repeats. The only obvious solution that I see being, pointed Cannons the logical cure.
Glad to see that you are getting outta there!
You have grown cynical.
Maybe a little… yes I have.
Not sure it could be helped.
Not sure it could be helped.
Fatalism 101
Well you know what they say…
NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE
“The seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere – and then it suddenly flings us forward across some vast chaos that defies any mortal effort to plan our way there. The Fourth Turning will try our souls – and the saecular rhythm tells us that much will depend on how we face up to that trial. The saeculum does not reveal whether the story will have a happy ending, but it does tell us how and when our choices will make a difference.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
As for Fatalism 101
It is an acquired taste but with time even it can taste so gut!
….
I hope my suggestions help your mood.
Maybe you are reading the wrong sort of literature.
I have been watching lots of videos and reading lots of Dr. Seuss….
and speaking of “Golden State”
It seems to help…
LOL… very good… you almost got me.
I counter with Optimism 101 and a few books on unicorn theory.
Over time we can learn to ignore most things. NickelthroweR what was the last straw that has caused you to leave?
I was outside enjoying the weather and strumming some guitar. Three bicycle policemen rolled up on me and threatened me with immediate arrest if I did not stop. The authorities ignore all the problems that we are having and harassed me over some “law” that you can not have music in public unless you have a license or permit.
That was the final straw.
That is one hell of a final straw.
The police are just armed tax collectors. Anyone not living on the street is harassed to no end so that they can collect more money for their liberal redistribution. After the fire, friends and family of those that lost their homes allowed people to park an RV in the driveway or allowed people to live in an empty garage – anything to alleviate the suffering. Anyway, the authorities ran around levying massive fines against the people that tried to help.
“Anyway, the authorities ran around levying massive fines against the people that tried to help.”
This seems deliberately hostile. What is the force driving it?
your money is my money…
It seems to be about much more than just money. It seems to be raw hatred.
just like the song above
the envy chained in one hand
feeds the greed in the other…
and the hatred is everywhere
Howdy,
It is about one thing…CONTROL.
Forget power and money…when you have control, complete and total…power/money is already in your laws and in your wallet.
Raw hatred is a factor…it is log on their fires…but Control is what warms their Godless, empty, cold hearts.
yep!
what mark said
Was just surfing my favorite blogs and saw they picked up your post on Zero Hedge. You must have hit a familiar nerve.
Yeah, Zero Hedge is brutal. Luckily I’ve got thick skin.
It’s going to soar past 70,000 reads.
The ZH posting commentary has deteriorated over the years. I still read the articles because some of them are excellent. They NEVER, ever gave me a posting ID, even after multiple tries.
No problem, I come here.
I’ve been reading Quinn’s financial and opinion stuff for years and its always worth the time – especially the commentary.
LOL… I just logged in (had to reset my password) and posted there. LOL… 72,000 reads and 700+comments…
I uploaded Paula’s goofy picture as my image… don’t tell.
hey mags could you post a link to zerohedge article.. I’d like to go for a stroll thru comments.. not sure what I am doing wrong but can’t search correctly on ZH for bit..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaving-california-ive-watched-grown-adults-dress-vaginas-parade-streets
awesome thanks!
This is my favourite one so far…
Just don’t tell Red.. still a bit touchy aboot that!
I won’t tell Red if you don’t tell the blond one.
deal!
good… off to ZH to see what I can see
there are some good ones in the mix here, there and everywhere
dear justin,
are you aware that over east in novee scotia there is a homerphobic,gun owning double binary xer who is a non flat earfer?
perhaps you could transfer him to nunavut,he could sure use the re education?
btw justin,rumor has it that in college he had a much older girlfriend named margaret,he brags that she was the best he ever had,whatever that means–
ur a funny one tampax
stop it Red! Margaret was good but that wuz a looooooooooooooong time ago
Victor Davis Hanson – who lives in the Valley near Fresno – has written on this. Cops (and Code Enforcement and all the rest) only go after people having wherewithall to pay the shakedown. Illegals/Homeless/Vagrants etc are ignored, because they have no money to put in the jar.
Literally had the same thought yesterday. I live in norcal near South Lake. Police/CHP want only to collect from you. They don’t want to help you. They just want to collect your money.
I told my husband what you said about paying and Eagle to play Hotel California on the guitar.
I guess I need to stop playing Desperado on the piano.
Nickel: Sorry I got all emotional there about California moving to Texas. The damage created is real and not good for Texas and I don’t know how to stop it anymore than you could stop the asshats that destroyed California. I daresay you had ample reason to jump ship and best wishes for you in your new home.
That’s a good girl.
I play in public, and I can tell you it’s the copyright fee they are paranoid about. You can’t be playing Hotel CA without a millionaire Eagle getting paid.
Artists in my tiny town quit playing live when their little coffeehouse gigs playing their own music couldn’t cover the fees.
Thank you for sharing that.
As far as were to live, what is coming, and what to do I highly recommend this vid.
It is full of insights and opinions to consider, weigh, and ponder. I know many do not like to watch vids, but this is well worth the time.
It is also in my Prepper opinion one of the best channels on the net.
check out his final straw…
Best thing I did was leave that shit hole in 2011. I attribute the rapid decline to the BRAC back in the early 90s. Pretty much decimated the state economy and began the rapid shift to liberal fucktards taking over. Miss the mountains, family and food, but I dont miss anything else about that lost caust.
The lost caust is a hoax. Hitler was running an adult daycare.
*cause. Lol, unintentional typo from the goddamn phone. Never thought about shortening to caust. Good stuff.
The killer was the overturn of Prop 87, AKA as ‘Save Our State’. Threw open the doors and virtually ensured permanent, one party, far left rule. Middle class was gutted as $ went to pet liberal initiatives while infrastructure crumbled. After you leave for a while and then go back, the first thing that hits you are the shitty roads and the trash all over the place. Import 3rd world and become 3rd world.
There are now many places in the US that, it saddens me to say, I have written off. I will no longer visit, LA, New Orleans, St Louis, Detroit, SanFrancisco. I grudgingly go to NJ because I have some family there. My mom is too old and stubborn to move, rest of my side has. I used to enjoy things cities had to offer, restaurants, ballgames, theatre -no longer. Despite the “hate has no home here” signs which proliferate, the feeling all to often is just the opposite. All too often it ends in some unpleasant experience. If nothing else, more people are just plain rude, many are totally obnoxious. I now limit my exposure to it and save the money I would have otherwise spent. Starting to be a decent cook as a result. If you want to hurl insults at the VP from the stage, kneel for the national anthem, have a vegan menu. Go right ahead. Don’t expect me to be any part of it or in any way support it with my $.
No cities, you must be a king of the road.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=king+of+the+road.
Haha. Love that song! As it happens spent a couple months this summer going cross country (by pickup truck with cap on back and mattress in the bed) to visit my buddy in Boise.
Boise is still a pretty good place, all things considered. I make a run there a couple of times a year to the VA clinic. Always make a week-end of it (about 185-190 miles away). It’s considered one of the best – if not the best – VA in the country.
Portland, once a really beautiful place, is a complete shit-hole now. It would literally have to be a serious reason to do more than just drive through, these days.
“hate has no home here”
Think of it as “what we hate has no home here.”
Nickleodeon got shit on in ZH as well. Lesson here is, if your from Cali, don’t let anybody know. Of course the tards will find out as soon as they see you buying a real house in town instead of a trailer or when they see you reading a book instead of a comic book or using a fork and knife to eat with instead of tightening a loose screw.
Whachootockin bout, willis
I think it was Archie Bunker who said that all the crazies in America fled west until they came to the ocean and then they just pilled up.
Piled or pilled works so I can call a misspelled word.
“I’m afraid that the one thing I will be carrying with me out of California is a numbness to human suffering.”
Hey, there’s nothing like tossing young children off tall buildings around the holidays. There is plenty of mayhem and numbness going on around the country, so always get a second opinion before moving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-parking-garage-deaths-murder-suicide-likely-in-deaths-of-mom-erin-pascal-two-kids-da-says/
Some states are just better at covering up their shitty, horrid laws, social conditions, and 3rd world savagery. I get really torqued with I stories about crimes against children, and awful domestic abuse in which women have their fair share of guilt along with men. I don’t know if that woman was a facing divorce or just mental or both- but the child visitation laws, restraining orders, and divorce courts are so corrupt and harsh in some states that children and adults KILLING THEMSELVES over custody battles is a very real occurrence.
Sad.
A fairly-predictable result of just too many rats in the cage.
[Also, with 8 billion people on the planet, there are just that many more atrocities to read about.]
nickel,
good write up & good luck to you in steubenville–
remember,there’s a trailer waiting 4 you down here in fla to remind you of cali–
btw,i don’t believe that there were more than a couple guys down on you,they were just doppling —
Hey Nickel, wonder what you think of Steve Albini, I love the music
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9468-steve-albini/
One of your more sane moves, after ditching teaching in public school..Best of luck
Now that’s how you tell a story.
$3200 a month plus parking and utilities to live in that area? That’s about my total monthly income. My wife and I rent a two bedroom house with finished basement, and detached garage/workshop for $750 a month. We pay on average $150 a month on utilities, have a nice back yard in a low crime area. Better you than me.
STAY THE HELL OUT OF TEXAS.
Sure thing, Alejandra.
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Hey Nickel, somebody posted your entire essay in the daily Presidential open thread over at Conservative Treehouse. This thing is getting read.
Did Admin post it as a Feature here? If not, he ought to stick it at the top for a bit and see where it goes. Below I brought over a comment from ZH from HRH Aquitaine 2.0 (Anonymag) that I wanted to make sure Nickel saw…
I lived in So Cal for he first 58 years of my life. As a boy it such an amazing place to grow up in. Very little traffic, great places to ride my bike, hiking and so many other good things. As a young adult there was inexpensive housing, no litter and trash and so many jobs everywhere. At that time gangs were almost nonexistent and drugs were something that you only heard about. Fast forward to my 50’s and it had all changed. I know everything does but everything that was good there was gone. Replaced by illegal aliens, horrible traffic, gangs, lot of drugs. bums and drug addicts everywhere, a worthless education system that caters to the children of illegals many of the good paying jobs left, etc etc. Sold my home and I moved to the mountains of Montana 5 years ago and it’s wonderful. And I did not bring any of Ca with me. When people ask me where I lived before I make something up like Utah or Idaho. R.I.P. California. It is circling the drain. Get out while you can.
i was in san diego last fall for a navy reunion… just us girls
Surrre…
Reminds me of the old tongue twister line-
How many peckers would Paulita pick if Paulita could pick peckers?
Or was it – Paulita picked a peck of pickled peckers?
praying for you too
The saddest part of this story (very good writing btw) was that you raised your daughter in that world. I can only imagine how that will shape her world view in the future. I’m reminded of the stories of China in the 1800’s and the Opium epidemic. It got so bad entire regions of the country were just collapsing from everybody just giving up and getting high. The problem didn’t end until a revolution, and the new regime gave everyone 30 days to get off drugs. After that, if you were still addicted, they shot you in the head.
Wasn’t the opium addiction intentional? If I remember there was a great economic crisis that caused massive unemployment and the Emperor sedated the people in opium dens.
I’m probably butchering that history, but I’m fairly sure getting everyone addicted to drugs suggests there may be additional problems with giving Big Pharma so much control of our lives.
From my memory it was a huge trade imbalance between the UK and China that prompted it. China wasn’t buying anything for all the tea Brits were buying. Could have been the emperor thought it would be in his interest to buy the opium as well. There is always more than one agenda going on. Prominent in this story was Skull And Bones, who were heavily involved in the opium trade and made fortunes off of it.
Opium also was instrumental in staving off hunger. That’s one of the agenda you speak of.
If you are not a pro-gun, pro-life conservative who is a President Trump supporter,do not move to Idaho. The amount of brain dead liberals from California, Oregon, Washington moving here is already changing the state for the worse.
Greetings,
The moving truck appears in 20 minutes so I’d like to say this on my way out of the door now that I’ve read 800 or so angry comments:
When ISIS appeared out of nowhere I had a good idea that it was a State Sponsored Terrorist Army. I knew this from being an Officer in the US Army and the logistics of moving a Battalion out into the woods and the massive amount of resources something like that takes.
Well, outside of my door is an army as well – an army of the homeless drug addicts and the insane. Just like ISIS, they could not be there without State sponsorship. After all, those people do not live on air alone but, too, require just as many resources as a battalion on the move.
What has happened here (and other places) is what the State wants for the whole USA. California is just a bit ahead of everyone else and given that we can no longer have electricity when the wind blows, the final collapse is not that far away.
Finally, those of you with your “don’t move here” bullshit – well, don’t flatter yourselves.
If I had known you were relocating I’d have carved off a few acres for you to build on.
Good luck with your journey, drive on out if you get a chance, we’re practically neighbors.
Nick, I wasn’t surprised at the vitriol aimed at you for leaving CA. Don’t come here, don’t come there. A lot of states were dumps in the 80’s, but they held on and didn’t succumb to the rot as fast as CA did. Most people who leave CA are not high income liberals, but middle class white folks who have to leave.
I lived there 20 years. My late husband wanted to go back there when we first got married, thinking Orange County was like it was when he was a kid. He had a huge culture shock in 1990. He’d be rolling over in his grave as to the state of it now. After he died in the mid 90’s, there was no reason for me to live there. All my family were in the Ozarks. Leaving CA was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
My rent kept rising. Then the economy went off the rails in 2007. Despite my many years of working in finance and accounting, I couldn’t find a job to save my life. I quietly left.
After leaving Orange County, a year later I got married to a good man. We’re living in flyover country and it’s pretty nice here. Easy to get a pistol permit. Virtually no crime, unless you count the occasional tweakers. Cost of living is low and since I live in an unincorporated area where there are no building codes or code enforcement. You can do what you want, within reason.
First thing I did was changed my license plates. Didn’t want someone confusing me with some east coast liberal and try to run me off the road. Actually when I tell people around here I lived in CA, they understood why people like me had to leave. They see the same internet blogs and TV news shows we all do.
That don’t move here irks me too. We all have the right to move wherever we want. Just like those who hate boomers, middle class folks like myself didn’t start the fire. We tried to put it out, but there were too many arsonists burning the land after we cleaned it up.
I live in an area receiving Californians. They generally suck.
Yeah, sure, they can go where they want, we just don’t want them to. Same thing with NY and NJ and IL and others. Liberal Retards fuck up their homes, then expect to come to ours and turn them into what they left. They don’t come to join us, become part of our community, respect our culture, and leave us alone. They’re more like nasty in-laws who complain about everything or insurgents coming to force their retarded politics on us.
Gilbert, places like Florida, Texas and even many parts of the south have been a dump for a long time. Newcomers in the last 5 years didn’t cause that. The locals did by their indifference to what was going on.
You talk about joining you, becoming part of your community and culture. That’s difficult to do. A lot of small towns will shun any newcomers, but will welcome with open arms refugees and other invaders from South of the border. Heaven forbid they might insinuate a hint of racism.
I know people in the greater metro area where I live constantly talk about yankees, outsiders…etc…but have zero problem with other invaders. i.e. churches around me will travel to Guatemala or Mexico to preach the gospel, but wouldn’t cross the street to help a poor white man or woman in their own community, local or not.
Hell in the South a man would rather his beautiful blond blue-eyed white daughter to marry a local yoof who’s into football, vs…an outsider young man who would make a good husband/father.
In all my 60 years of living (and I’ve lived all over the country for my job) did I once complain about my AO. I kept my mouth shut, was grateful to have a job and live my life. And I suspect most newcomers are the same way. The ONLY people who have the time to bitch and moan about how things are in their new area are the retired government employee/communist left leaning cucks that were that way or will be anywhere they move to. The working stiff don’t have time to complain and try to change things. They just want a peaceful life without getting robbed or shot.
gilly, back in 2010, the boss and his cohort were daydreaming about leaving Cali. The talk was all about finding a place where they don’t have a state income tax. Arizona and Texas came up. To hear them bitch about Cali you would think they weren’t born and raised here (ok, one was born in Georgia but raised here).
I don’t know how to describe them, maybe call them California good ole boys. They say you can’t take it with you but California dudes want to cash out the built up equity and look for greener pastures. It happens internally too; people for LA cash out on their hovels for half a mil and come up here to the Antelope Valley where they buy for $300K and still have money left over for several cars, new appliances and granite counter tops.
The increased house values and rising rents in LA have impacted poor folks worst of all, cheap apartments go for $1500 to $2500 per month and some resort to living in tents right next to the downtown skid row. My wife and I took a shortcut through downtown last month and she was shocked to see all the tents. We got out of the downtown area and headed across East LA on Olympic. In a region considered poor, we did not see any more tents.
I have never been surprised at what people call changes, East Austin was just as bad back in the late 70’s. Downtown LA, before Villaraigosa’s gentrification of the area was said to be populated by druggies, hookers and nutjobs. Skid row is still alive and kicking. The streets in that area are something you might find in a poor neighborhood of Tijuana. Yet, it is surprising to see white people walking around thanks to the new apartments and clubs in an area that had not seen blues eyes since WWII.
I’ll tell you, as an eyewitness, there are no turds to be found anywhere outside of downtown LA (I didn’t stop to look for them in the downtown area). There are no turds in East LA, Commerce, Glendale, Arleta, Sun Valley, North Hills, etc.
What you do find all over the basin – LA and surrounding cities – are the small houses built up in the 50’s boom years, most of them look cheap with wrought iron fences and gates. Some neighborhoods in San Fernando, North Hills and Burbank have managed to keep looking decent. White people sold out in Burbank after Lockheed closed shop in the 80’s.
I think they all went to the paradise west and south of the 405; Fountain Valley, Irvine and the rest of Orange County. Santa Monica Beach has a few holdouts but downtown Ventura is a wasteland. You have to drive up to Montecito and Butterfly Beach to enjoy the sea without the riff raff in Santa Monica or the horrendous traffic of the beach cities like Huntington and Newport.
California doesn’t have a homeless problem. It has a drug problem and a mental health problem. It’s by far the most beautiful place in the world and it easily has the most potential for civilization. A super long coast line, most fertile valley in the world, and a wealth of natural resources, including oil. But in the 1960’s the Brown family and all the drug using hippies teamed up to send this place back to the third world. What should be the best place in the world is a literal crap hole in every direction. The leaders here thought they could have paradise with no rules- I mean who wants to be mean to people who are just expressing their desire to be in an altered mental state? They failed. The state has failed.
And you’re right. My wife and I were saying two nights ago how this place sucks the life, love, and joy right out of a person. You live around these crazy drug addicts long enough and you find it’s really hard to not hate them. They have destroyed a beautiful place, they will steal everything you own if given the chance and crap on your front porch if you don’t give them what they want. We are sad, tired, and jaded. We, along with most people who don’t live behind gates, have grown to look upon the homeless with scorn and distrust. That’s sad. But that’s what California will do to you.
2 words: pellet gun
The problem with Californians escaping California is that they try and turn their new place into what they fled. Nothing but Locust People. That’s what they are trying to do to my Alaska right now. I say build a wall around the damned place!
go fu@@@k yourself
Feel you, Brother.
dad was military, but i spent most of my growing up yrs in cali. a little place called marysville/wheatland north of sac. they dont call it the granola state for nothing. joined the navy and never looked back.
The people with discernment already knew these things were happening… BTW, that’s what communism looks like….
This song pretty much sums up the decision making process of Nickel Leaving Cali…
Ten strikes and yer out!
And so ya have to pause for a minute, and ask yourself; “what would Lee Marvin say?”
I was born under a wandrin’ star
I was born under a wandrin’ star
Wheels are made for rollin’
Mules are made to pack
I’ve never seen a sight that didn’t look better looking back
I was born under a wandrin’ star
Mud can make you prisoner, and the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes, but only people make you cry
Home is made for comin’ from, for dreams of goin’ to
Which with any luck will never come true
I was born under a wandrin’ star
I was born under a wandrin’ star
Do I know where hell is?
Hell is in hello
Heaven is goodbye for ever, it’s time for me to go
I was born under a wandrin’ star
A wandrin’ wandrin’ star
When I get to heaven tie me to a tree
Or I’ll begin to roam, and soon you know where I will be
I was born under a wandrin’ star
A wandrin’ wandrin’ star.
I lived in hollyWEIRD for awhile in the early 80’s, BEFORE this homeless problem. I loved the beach and went to Santamonica or Venice beach regularly. Loved it !! Today it’s obviously a “different world”. Almost a different PLANET !! Good Lord it’s disgusting. And, of course, the G.D. LIBERALS/Progressives/COMMIES, deserve ALL the blame. Rotten UN-American CREEPS !! Liberalism is truly a MENTAL ILLNESS. They have destroyed the most beautiful state in America !! I remember one afternoon, taking a walk down Sunset Blvd, I walked by a street bench and saw a guy sitting there, having a lively ARGUMENT, with his SHOE ! And that was over 30 years ago. God help California !
I grew up in Miami & South Florida, great memories, been a sh*thole for a long time now, glad I became rural.
Just saying same slum different state.
South Florida is hardly the same as what Nickelthrower describes. Try shitting on the street here, and you’re going to jail or you’re going to get your ass beat. I have never once seeing a discarded needle on the street.
Yea who doesn’t want 72F everyday with an ocean in reach.. try living in KC for awhile.. But then.. once you do you realize why we tolerate it..
The True Solution to Crapipornia is to Neutron Bomb it. Wipe Out All Life, Disease & Virus then just Wait for the Radiation to die down Quickly & Repopulate with Only Americans = No Commies, Illegals, Chinese, Arabs, Muslims, Indians, No Welfare Recipients, No Homeless, No Mentally Ill & then see what happens.
It’s been like that in Sydney especially near Kings Cross & the surround to Oxford st Darlinghurst since the 80s.
Locked up in rehab is not a punishment but one of compassion and yet the corrupt officials do nothing and let their people destroy themselves and push these drugs onto the new generation. The army is looking for recruits and the homeless are everywhere lost with out meaning, take them, clean them up and if they repeat their drug offenses, repeat.
Legalizing drugs is not a solution but sheer madness brought to you by drug obsessed officials, start the testing with the officials.
More thought needed for the part about the army. When they are in operation there is no place for some stoner. That alone makes all the difference.