A Hitch-hiker's Guide to the People's Socialist Republik of Venezuelifornia
But there is one good side. It's called "Florida, Texas & South Dakota"
I am a dual US/Canadian citizen, but was born and a young child just south of San Francisco. I also lived for a long time in Vancouver, BC, which is going down the exact same horrific leftist path – see Vancouver is Dying video; the last time I was in Vancouver, we were pulling into our relatively nice hotel via the entrance alley, and suddenly in front of us were two homosexuals doing their thing – what Blackstone called “a crime against nature” - who dashed out from behind a dumpster when our headlights hit it. I will leave aside the fact that most of the public has no idea who Blackstone is, or what his significance is, but let’s just saw law students need to know him cold.
But returning to the story, Ronald Reagan was governor in CA., and as late as the 1990s they had a Republican governor (Schwarzenegger was barely a Republican; you can count him or not; and yes, Gov. “Hairdo/French Laundry Restaurant” lost to African American Republican Larry Elder in the last gubernatorial race, but you know how the fake votes go – and if not, just go ask fraud Katie Hobbs in AZ. And yes, the vile left was hate-filled and arrogant enough in their own racism, to call Elder “the black face of white racism.” And you are correct. Someone actually wrote that, and then could go home and look in the mirror. Leftist filth knows no bounds). Elder belongs to the same party as Frederick Douglass (c. 1817 – 1895) – one of our second generation Founding Fathers around the time of Lincoln – who said “I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. But no doubt they’ll next accuse Douglass of being the black face of whatever cliche/slur their fetid little minds can conjur up….
Incidentally, another quasi-Founding Father, Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915), added about the racism schtict all the way back around the previous turn of the century: “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” This gaming the system gambit has been going on a long time. Think Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
I watched as the state, as well as the city, were slowly overrun for years by vile, East Coast leftists and rhinestone Marxists who simply destroyed the state, and all that was good about it. Natural beauty? Now replaced with exrement, needles and tent cities. Just made me sick. They have now done this to Portland, Seattle, and are working on Austin, TX. My first memories as a child was driving around SF when I was 4 or 5 and seeing a city utterly different than today. (OK, it was my parents were driving, but today I could probably self-identify as a 21-year old and get a license - if I can self-identify as a girl at 4-years old, why not also a 21-year old?)
So what has the left done to Venezuellinfornia? Exhibit A: An app for your phone called SnapCrap, where you can take pix of human excrement, and then they are supposed to pick it up. SF Gate and CNet have stories on this for your review.
If you check it out, you will see the whole freaking city is COVERED with icons for excrement. Like all big government, “they are getting around to it. Maybe next year.” They had to pass a law about naked people coming into restaurants due to... ummm... let's just say "unsanitary conditions” (you can use your imagination). And of course, as you might expect “Public nudity is legal in San Francisco as long as the nude individual is not in a state of arousal.” Gee… but why stop there? Isn’t that intolerant? Disrespectful to the priapic (you can look that one up; there’s only so much filth one can deal with). This was per a law passed by a SF supervisor aptly named Scott Weiner. "San Francisco is a liberal and tolerant city, and we pride ourselves on that fact," Supervisor Wiener said in a statement.” Gee. Does that mean all the Google and old Twitter fascists will now be tolerant of free speech, that hurts no one? But you, gentle reader, know the answer to that one! Their tolerance, and their Marxist hero Herbert Marcuse said, is “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.” Mr. Marcuse is now in a literal, not figurative, Hell.
SF also recently just purchased one (and in o-n-e) public toilet for $1.7mm No doubt Hunter got a cut on that. Y’know… once you get done paying off all the cronies, things get expensive!
Most of you know stores are shutting down, as theft under $1,000 has nothing done. E.g., CVS is shutting down a lot of stores due to all the theft . Thankfully, the Learjet leftists and limousine liberals are in enclaves, protected by men with guns. Or is that men like Bruce Jenner who, with a zillion dollars of surgery, are now ersatz “women” with guns. (And oh yes! Can 8 year olds identify as adults, and sign up to carry guns? Why is it only gender where they can self-identify?)
A lot of this rot was due to their DA Chesa Boudin, who recently got turfed as even the SF Marxists couldn’t take it. Who is he? Well, like all other evil in the country, he was funded by vile George Soros. Chesa Boudin was born to his parents David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin. However, after both of his parents were convicted of felony murders (so much for “Love wins” leftist placards), he was adopted by another couple from Chicago - Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were also members of Weather Underground just like his biological parents. And who are they? "Back in the early eighties, in an interview with David Horowitz and Peter Collier, Bill Ayers remembered his reaction upon learning that he would not be prosecuted by the government for his bombing spree as a member of the Weather Underground. ‘Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,’ he exulted." (One story here). Oh yeah... this group murdered (so much for those "hate has no home here" yard signs!) SF police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell. Kincaid writes "former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl, who participated in meetings with Ayers, has been that Ayers told him that Dohrn planted the bomb. What’s more, the bomb that killed three of their own members when it accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse was an anti-personnel device intended for an Army dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Mark Rudd, another member of the Weather Underground, reveals in a new book that he was in favor of planting the bomb, saying that he wanted “this country to have a taste of what it had been dishing out daily in Southeast Asia…” What the U.S. had been trying to do was prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam."
Yep, that self-same communism that murdered over 100mm last century per the Black Book of Communism, Harvard Univ. Press, and about which late Univ of Hawaii prof RJ Rummel (I know.. tough job, but someone has to do it, right?) said here that last century governments murdered as many as 170mm (most of them leftist or National Socialist (aka Nazi). Adds Kincaid "in 2007, members of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) were indicted for the 1971 killing of another San Francisco Police Sergeant, John Young. The BLA worked with the Weather Underground. In fact, the Weather Underground and the BLA in 1981 tried to rob a Brinks truck and killed three law enforcement officers in Rockland County, New York. Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert went to prison for their roles in the assault, while their “comrades,” Ayers and Dohrn, raised their child, Chesa Boudin."
This idiocy has now metastasized to places like Illinois, New York etc. The result? I slept through junior high math class, but even I can do this math! (Hint to the math challenged with a colour-code: red is bad
The upside? Just this week, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Republican voters outnumber Democrats by 400,000 in Florida, compared to 2018, when Democrats outnumbered Republicans by nearly 300,000. He barely won his first election, by ~40,000 votes. But they had to fix their election system after the Gore/Bush 2000 election, and now is seeing a significant influx of Americans seeking safe harbor from tyranny and woke ideology. While other states locked down communities, forced kids out of classrooms, and imposed vaccine mandates, Governor DeSantis stood strong and protected the God-given rights of Floridians.