Gavin Newsom regaled a state capitol audience with an attempt to apply makeup to a hog in his January 6 inaugural address. The “lipstick on a pig” is more than a cliché. How best to describe a surreal bid to portray a long-running fiasco as a “personal embrace of freedom”? Will Swaim of the California Policy Center in his morning’s piece (1/15/23, see below) makes clear the state’s predicament to anyone with eyes to see. California is a mess, big time!
Heck, California lost a congressman and has lost population for the third year in a row, not just a decline in the rate of growth when compare to other states, but actually went negative. The state is shrinking. It’s been building for decades only to accelerate in numbers that resemble the crowds stampeding the southern border. Instead of heading north, they’re rushing east. Apparently, many of the state’s existing and former residents don’t like the smell of Newsom’s “personal embrace of freedom”. And the clowns that dominate the state government keep making the smell ever more pungent.
Swaim chronicles a growing list of recent executive and legislative perniciousness that is driving people pell-mell out the state, something Newsom blithely pretends isn’t happening. The compendium of noxiousness knows no bounds. Newsom berates “Red state politicians” (read DeSantis and Abbot) in his speech as possessing “authoritarian impulses” while he retains emergency powers, the go-to for history’s real Fascists. Hitler didn’t replace the Weimar Constitution but ruled throughout under its Article 48 emergency powers up to his last days in the bunker. Likewise, Newsom locked down the state and shuttered the schools longer than anywhere else, proving that when you scratch a progressive, a dogmatic authoritarian is exposed.
If you happen to be a doctor in the state, you might face prosecution under Newsom’s “misinformation” law since it is illegal to register qualms about the state’s medical proclamations because they are deified as the “contemporary scientific consensus”. Patriotism isn’t the last refuge of the scoundrel. “Contemporary scientific consensus” is! Past contemporary scientific consensuses included the luminiferous ether (space isn’t a vacuum), the heavenly vault (Copernicus’s ceiling beyond the solar system), Lamarckism (animal behavior determines mutations, not genetic diversity), etc. The concept of “scientific consensus” as determinant of truth is ludicrous, but the state’s doctors will have to acquiesce in silence to avoid Galileo’s fate before the Inquisition. Careerwise, it’s healthier to jump the Sierras seeking a post in a Boise hospital. This is California “freedom”? This is California’s new “liberty”?
The state’s finances are drowning in unfunded mandates. Rather than address this beast, Newsom and his goofs in Sacramento have proposed to ladle a reparations payment of $223,000 for each member of a supportive voting block: descendants of African slaves. How do you determine the award winners? I’m sure that they’ll come up with some cockamamie formula – they’ll have to – but watch the prospect of six-figure money attract Caucasians, Asians, Hispanics, transplanted Jamaicans, anyone who’ll claim mysterious ancestors who suffered under Simon Legree’s lash, much like Elizabeth Warren seeking Native American affirmative action points or others probing a cut of the casino profits.
For the Sacramento clown car and its voter base, running the oppression lottery ranks higher than the provision of . . . water, without which we’d die after 3 days. No new damns, reservoirs, or aqueducts have been added since the state’s population was 23 million in 1980. It’s 39 million today (and shrinking). And that 100- to 40-year-old infrastructure wears out. No alternative sources such as desalinization are on the horizon. Last year, California’s bureaucratic behemoth, the Coastal Commission, rejected a proposed plant near Costa Mesa. No additional water for you, California. You have nothing to look forward to but draconian state rationing and brown lawns, withering crops, and 30-second showers every other day by state edict. Don’t expect the recent downpours to rescue you. The water is flushing out to the sea and not to your shower head.
The people of California asked for this. Somehow, the seed of Lefty aesthetics was planted deep under the popular cranium as far back as 1972 when Pop 20 was popularly approved to create the California Coastal Commission. The original purpose was to protect the coast from overdevelopment. It did, and is now busy dehydrating the 14 million people on the coastal plain. Obviously, it’s a blueprint for the rest of the state: blame some bogeyman – climate change – as Newsom did in his screed, and don’t do anything but rail against the people and shove them into electric cars hooked up to a grid that they are making unstable. Go figure.
In a certain sense, Californians, you are doing it to yourself. Lunacy is popular in the state.
If you’re a fast-food worker and think that hiking the minimum wage to $15.50/hour is such a great idea, think again. If you still have a job – a big “if” – you’ll notice fewer colleagues and more machines surrounding you. The order to boost the minimum wage is in reality the depress-labor-participation-and-increase-automation act since fewer people can be afforded and machines pay dividends far into the future when compared to the alternative — you!
Owners of the outlets don’t fair any better. The governor, super-majorities of both legislative houses, and the state’s gargantuan bureaucracies want to impose unionization on you. Like doctors, get out! Help Boise grow.
Hey, truckers and owners of trucking firms, the guy and his minions are after you. Closed union shops will befall you the longer you stay. Great weather can’t compensate for decreasing competitiveness.
The state desires not to be a haven for jobs and business. Instead, it heartily seeks the moniker of sanctuary for abortionists and sexual mutilators of children. So radical are they about abortion that escaping the womb while still breathing won’t save the baby. The state considers the baby not be human, rather to be treated like the mother’s infected tonsils. Unlike the mother’s tonsils, however, the baby has its own DNA profile independent of the mother. It is not an organ of the mother, which is the first indication that the unborn young are to be treated differently than a hang nail. Such is the Clockwork Orange nature of the state (read A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess).
The grotesqueries don’t end there. A child’s sexual organs are to be treated like pregnancy: an inconvenience to be surgically or pharmaceutically manipulated. If your kid happens to find their way to transgenderism’s underground railroad to California without your knowledge, the State of California protects the mutilator and the child’s wishes to be mutilated unbeknownst to you. It’s truly appalling what the state has become. It’s more than A Clockwork Orange. It’s the Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells author).
These are just some of the “successes” mentioned by the state’s gubernatorial Dr. Moreau. The assault on business continues unabated. The state’s malformations only get grander. To remain, at this point, comes close to quiet acquiescence.
I’m reminded of the silent German citizens who resided next to Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, or Buchenwald. Said nothing, did nothing, until Patton arrived at Buchenwald in March of 1945. Sickened and horrified, he ordered the surrounding residents out of their homes to view the horrors that were conducted in their name. Californians, look around you at the actions that are being taken in your name. Infanticidal abortion and child sexual mutilation are no small things.
Many Californians regularly vote against this kind of thing. They are to be applauded, but they need more people like them at a time when many of the people who do have fled. That means a change of heart among a good portion of the Lefty voter base. And that is going to be hard, oh so very hard. Meanwhile, the state potentates will be applying lipstick on a pig. Nay, lipstick on a wild boar.
RogerG
Read more here:
* “Newsom’s Hollow Ring of Freedom”, Will Swaim, National Review Online, 1/15/23, at https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/newsoms-hollow-ring-of-freedom/
* “California regulator rejects desalination plant despite historic drought”, Daniel Trotta, Reuters, 5/13/22, at https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-rejects-plan-desalination-plant-2022-05-13/
* “California’s Tyrannical Covid ‘Misinformation’ Law”, Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review Online, 10/6/22, at https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/californias-tyrannical-covid-misinformation-law/
* “Liberals Finally Admit That California Is Shrinking but Still Don’t Accept Blame”, Will Swaim, Nationa,l Review Online, 5/15/22, at https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/liberals-finally-admit-that-california-is-shrinking-but-still-dont-accept-blame/
* “The Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Patton’s Bastardly Discovery”, Flint Whitlock, Warfare History Network, Summer 2019, at https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/buchenwald-concentration-camp-general-pattons-bastardly-discovery/