How does this explosive story on @GavinNewsom awarding a no-bid contract to @JenSiebelNewsom's friend's nonprofit, Baby2Baby, only have 14k views after 18 hrs? Is it being suppressed?
Here's some incredible investigative journalism from a longtime Sacramento reporter. For all of you who think CA doesn't have real journalists, please read.
Xavier Becerra’s machine is CRUSHING California restaurants—with skyrocketing electric bills, taxes and insurance rates.
Don’t believe me? Dario runs an Italian restaurant in San Francisco. And he brought the receipts!
Your tax dollars are now subsidizing illegal food carts while 100 legitimate restaurants go out of business every year in LA. We live in a cuckoo clock.
Are they gonna give restaurants free stoves, too? Or is this only for people who violate all the rules and pay no fees?
@GavinNewsom Liar. So desperate for attention. A Narcissist knows a narcissist. I cannot wait until you are no longer running our state. I hope no talks about you ever again.
This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.
Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.
But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.
They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.
It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.
Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.
Gavin Newsom has spent months trying to block oil production off the coast of Santa Barbara.
@InnerRhythmWave is a surf instructor there and has seen the consequences with his own eyes:
Oil SEEPING out of the sand — sticking to people and their pets!
We can lower gas prices AND protect our environment at the same time. We just need common sense leadership in California. ☀️
Billions is taken from taxpayers every year and we have nothing to show for it. Homelessness is at an all-time high, education is at an all-time low. Our parks and streets are a mess. Where all the money going? Now listen as a California Democrats ask for an BILLION loan
David Friedberg: It's not rich vs poor, it's makers vs takers.
@friedberg:
“ The great lie is that there are two sides to society, that is the rich and the poor.
And the great truth is that there are two sides that are the makers and the takers.
The lie is that the rich are unfairly rich and the poor are unfairly poor, and therefore, the poor must take from the rich.
But the truth is that it's the takers that tell you that lie, that the real truth is that artists, plumbers, electricians, woodworkers, computer scientists, people that build, people that make from all walks of life, all income levels, all wealth brackets, are the makers.
And the takers are what Sacks calls this intelligentsia, the analysts, the espousers, the armchair mechanics, the critics, the commentators, the politicians. They are the takers.
They are the people that watch the rest of society make stuff, build stuff, specifically doing things that create value for other people in society. That's what a maker is.”
WHOA: Spencer Pratt just went NUCLEAR on Karen Bass and Nithya Raman in a new video posted to X.
“You think your election was going to stop me? If you want to stop me, you’re going to have to f*cking kill me!”
He warned that he has recordings of one of the candidates that will force her to “resign in shame,” and said the gloves are now completely off.
PRATT: “You’re about to reward the arsonist who torched the place with four more years of destruction?”
“My goal hasn’t changed. I’ve been very focused on stopping these commie animals and I will stop them.”
“If you think we uncovered a lot of fraud and evil in the campaign, just wait.”
“We have some recordings of one of your exalted candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.”
“I was saving it for the general election. Go ahead and pick your demon, certify your choice and then you get to see it.”
“So Karen, Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?”
@carldemaio I'll believe it when I see it. I want handcuffs and perp walks. It is shameful what they are doing. I am tired of the "likely" and "possible" ~ can they just hold these people accountable. And repeal these voting "laws"
@AmericanwomanU1@carldemaio Right? And Dems are supposed to be the party of empathy and compassion...the last time I checked, using someone who is at their low point is not near compassionate.