California paid $275 billion more in Federal taxes than we got back(~$530 bil β$800 bil total fed tax). Our state budget is about $300 bil with deficits ranging $50-$100 bil. Without paying the federal taxes, we could maintain all services, never run a deficit and have ~$200 billion to spare. Hmm.
06.12.2025 06:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Golden Age.
05.12.2025 14:48 β π 8572 π 4448 π¬ 686 π 386
Timeline for Hesgethβs strike:
Sept 2 -boat strike
Nov 18 -Kelly et al video on illegal orders
Nov 28 - Wapo article on illegal order in boat strike
Per article, the reporters were shopping comments all over DC. Congress got wind. Itβs not all some huge coincidence. Nice move, Dems.
03.12.2025 20:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So a judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan never had a job and did not actually do anything. I think her salary and all compensation needs to be returned. I want to get this idea out there, so please like and share, or just rewrite it yourself. Idc.
24.11.2025 21:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Watching βHundreds of Beaversβ with my son. Itβs the most brilliantly ridiculous movie.
24.11.2025 04:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
2/2 I am local to SF. Berkeley also has a few restaurants doing this. The outcome is that locals donβt eat in areas with this practice. Bait and switch tactics just make me avoid eating there. It is not a good experience to guess my final bill. So I just avoid dining in SF. Lots of other options.
20.11.2025 18:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It has become standard practice for restaurants in San Francisco and Las Vegas to charge hidden fee at checkout from 3% up to 20%. Both areas are claiming massive declines in diners. SF restaurants fought a statewide ban on hidden fees and were exempted. 1/2
20.11.2025 18:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
So we need to form a sub Dem party a la βthe Teapartyβ and primary every Senator running in β26. Senate leadership needs to go, so rank and file get primaried. Everyone folded.
Maybe:
Dempβs -Democratic Progressive
ODC -Original Democratic Congress
ODP -Original Democratic Progressives
19.11.2025 01:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So easy global warming trivia.
Avg Earth temp ~1960 14C
Avg Earth temp 2010 14.6C
Change in 50 years =4%
On global time scales of billions of years that is (to use a scientific term) horrifically bad. Evolution doesnβt work that fast for plants which rely on heat exchange.
13.11.2025 18:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Normally, would not post anything from the Washington Examinerβ¦but they polled every GOP about ending the filibuster. Hereβs their graphic. Itβs laughably bad for Trump. Also, shockingly solid journalism from WE.
08.11.2025 03:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The remand is to determine if there is a factual basis to hand over the proceeding transcripts. I take this to mean that the judge needs to looks at whether any of the claims made by Comey's team appear to be true before handing them over. So is this a review of by the judge of the transcripts?
07.11.2025 19:28 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
06.11.2025 21:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh hey, they got all the CA GOP in one spot. Last, I checked there were only 3. They added a woman!
06.11.2025 06:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This really hasnβt gotten enough attention this week.
@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
05.11.2025 23:09 β π 31659 π 15122 π¬ 1067 π 1006
The plan to blackout Xmas and Thanksgiving is not going to fly. Plan and promote a black Friday blackout or one in January. This is such a bad idea that it seems like a false flag. Plan another No Kings on Black Friday or Boxing Day. This can be done smarter. Not saying that I got the answers.
05.11.2025 19:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
For me, the shutdown is not about healthcare extensions. After, the GOP runs out ways to punish the people most in need of help first, they will run out of money for troops to invade our cities and other countries, for ICE, for their own paychecks. It's a general strike. Let's feed people locally.
31.10.2025 05:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Damn, those fictional woke liberals are going to get their houses egged.
30.10.2025 05:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There's no way this can go bad.
25th Amendment NOW.
www.knpr.org/2025-10-21/e...
30.10.2025 04:41 β π 3 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
I heard Jeffries interviewed on NPR and (given it was about as friendly as a professional journalist will be) he badly needs media training. I agree with him and understand the issue. It was like listening to high school principal no one Iikes explain how he was very disappointed in everyone.
27.10.2025 07:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Suggest your SO take her tire shopping for you and get them installed. NOT TO COSTCO THOUGH! Have you ever ate a chicken wrap while waiting 4 hours for tires? Itβs how I met my first wife, then my 2nd three years later and my 3rd five years after that. (I got a job with a shorter commute.)
27.10.2025 06:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yeah, I canβt find it. Seems fake. Mostly because it would be frontpage of at least a few sites. I went and checked Trumpβs truth social account. He did by the way tweet for pregnant women not to use Tylenol. That was there. Also, the world seems gray and lifeless now.
27.10.2025 06:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Please stop asking Gavin Newsom about running for Pres. He will try. Not a story. Letβs try to avoid a war, foreign or civil, and a rigged election in 2026. Asking about Democratic primaries in 2028 is like asking Elon when Tesla will get FSD.
27.10.2025 06:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Please explain this joke chatgpt:
This character is from the movie Terminator in which ai takes over the world and murders most of humanity leaving only a small group of resistance fighters alive.
I would never make such a terrible
mistake. I wonβt miss anyone.
26.10.2025 06:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Global News
The Ontario anti-tariff ad which led Trump to end trade talks with Canada
It was a pretty good anti-tariff ad. It is a shame that Canadians were bullied into pulling the ad. Now no one will ever see it again.
25.10.2025 17:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Heβs not a good candidate. But he is not running for an office, I can vote for. If the first thing anyone hears about is your Nazi tattoo, it is gonna be rough.
25.10.2025 00:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
24.10.2025 07:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Direct your purchase away from Home Depot. Their owner can do something-see pic.
22.10.2025 19:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So Home Depot seems to be letting ICE have free rein. Most items can be purchased easily on Amazon or another hardware store. Direct your traffic away from their stores until they do something. Check the ownership in a pic.
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