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Sugarland is what I would call hippie country music. They’re doubtlessly godless communists. But they have produced some superb music. I think this is one of their best. The images and emotions it summons up are achingly beautiful. Well done you drug-addled hippies. Well done.
We got the promised four inches of snow last night so I had to clear it this morning. I didn’t get out there until ten-thirty so I was busy when Trump was sworn in. After a shower and lunch, I put on the video and listened.
Well, Donald Trump did his thing. He gave a half hour address and he surely went to town. I think he touched almost all the bases. He left out the J6 pardons which did surprise me. But other than that (and I guess Greenland) he went through the litany of actions and policies that he promised during the campaign. And I gotta tell ya, it was pretty great.
Now I have to be honest, I do get tired of all the pauses for applause. They’re not really necessary. But some of them were justified. When he said he was going to end government racial and sexual interference in people’s lives I’m pretty sure I gave off a whoop. And when he said that he was going to restore freedom of speech by putting a stop to all government interference with speech I smiled. And when he said that there are officially two genders (he meant sexes) recognized by the United States government I think I may have clapped.
He said the government would put an end to the sexual struggle sessions in the military. And he said he would be declaring a national emergency at the southern border. He said he will be reinstating the stay in Mexico policy for people seeking asylum. He said he’s taking the Panama Canal back and he said he’s declaring the cartels terrorist organizations. He said he’s ending the Green New Deal and the Electric Car subsidies. He said he’s going to “drill baby drill.” He said he’s going to restore impartial justice and end lawfare. And he said that God saved his life to give him the chance to restore America to greatness.
He said everything. He didn’t take a swing at Joe Biden but nobody’s perfect.
Alright, good. He got his say and all those applause lines and he criticized his opponents and their awful policies. Splendid.
But Inauguration Day is one day. Tomorrow, I want to hear what you’ve done for me lately. We all went to a lot of trouble to drag our butts down to the Middle School cafeteria to vote for you. We did that even though we believed there was a better than even chance that the Democrats would steal this election too. So, we’ve gone out on a limb to look like saps for you Mr. President, so it’s time for you to have your minions sweep up the confetti and busted balloons and roll up their sleeves and actually check off one or two items off of that list of promises you made today.
And how about starting with the J6 pardons? That’s the one that is most urgent. These people have been shut away for years for misdemeanors or for nothing in some cases. Setting them free is the right thing to do and it’s the smart thing to do too. He shouldn’t wait. He owes them that.
After that, shut down the FBI. That’s a no-brainer. After that just start putting the wheels in motion for all of the stuff that takes time to get moving. Call up the yahoos in the Senate and get your appointees confirmed and let’s get this show on the road. The time for speeches is over.
Update:
I saw last night that he did sign pardons for about 1,500 J6 prisoners. Good.
The snow is falling pretty fast here in Dunwich. It’s starting to cover the ice over the swamp and pretty soon it will force the lycanthropes back into their caves along the bases of the hills. And that will quiet the howling that kept me up last week. It’s always annoying when the moon is full. Between the howling and the scratching at the door and the screaming of the stranded motorists who get eaten alive while walking down the road for help it’s a real pain. I mean come on, have some consideration for other people. Either be eaten alive in stoic silence or bring a revolver loaded with silver bullets. It’s not that complicated. Read the town ordinances. Your survivors are going to be fined for the after-hours noise violation so use your head.
Trump says he is going to un-classify and reveal the remaining records from the Kennedy (JFK and RFK) and King assassinations. Now that’s pretty great. People have been teasing these things for scores of years. Of course, I’m not assuming that the records are the truth. Probably they don’t say anything definitive about anything. But the veil of secrecy has been used like some magic spell to keep us wondering what the people in the know don’t want us to know since we were kids. At this point I doubt we’ll ever know what actually happened but at least they can stop acting like we’re peons who can’t be trusted with the higher mysteries of the cult. But right now, I am excited to hope maybe there are names like Castro or Khruschev or the CIA or the Mob. That would be like a Tom Clancey novel instead of that nit-wit Oswald.
It’s funny. A month ago, if you asked me whether I thought I’d be excited about Trump’s inauguration I’d’ve said absolutely not. But I’m surprised to say that’s not the case. I am looking forward to it and excited about the prospect of someone on my side taking over and beginning the daunting task of chopping away at the roots of the monster that ate the United States. I just read today that this year Argentina had its first budget surplus in fourteen years. Wouldn’t it be a miracle if Trump could make that happen in 2026?
And maybe tomorrow he’ll hand out pardons to the J6 prisoners. That would breathe life into the base and bring tears to the eyes of Garland and his stooges. And while he’s at it he should use an executive order to provide recompense and apologies to anyone the US government punished for not getting a COVID shot. Now that’s overdue.
But before anything else, give Kash Patel the keys to the J Edgar Hoover Building and have him begin the process of emptying the offices of all the creeps and thugs that the FBI employed over the last twenty-five years to spy on and persecute American citizens. And he should quickly cancel all their passwords and clearance ratings so that they can never again cause us harm. And while he’s at it put a blanket hold on FISA warrant requests and stop spying on Americans altogether. That would really start the new administration on a patriotic foot. That would really be a change for the better.
And if he really wants to release records that need de-classifying let him de-classify the records of the operations that targeted Americans; including the Russia collusion hoax. Name names and appoint special counsels. Put those guys in jail. If need be, have the trials far away from Washington. Maybe a small town in Florida or Texas. They’re Americans too, I think. They can provide the jury of twelve men and true, I believe.
Well, I’m letting myself run away with things but as I said I’m more excited about all this than I thought I’d be. Good luck Donald Trump. We’re all rooting for you.
At long last the abysmal presidency of zombie Joe Biden is finally about to end. His re-animated corpse has been submerged in a large bottle of formaldehyde and all the pardons have been printed out and prepared for publication. And now that they’re making up constitutional amendments out of whole cloth maybe we’ll find out that cats have been given citizenship just so the blue-haired crazy women will have another victory to embrace.
But the imminent departure of Biden has me considering the Trump phenomenon. Even David Brooks had to grudgingly admit that “Trump is the most consequential politician since Reagan.” And he means that negatively in that the American people have chosen Trump for the things that Brooks thinks are faults. Well, what can you expect from David Brooks?
And you know, for most people the idea of Trump being part of our political world only began with 2016. But I remember when Trump was trying to involve himself in politics as a young man in New York City. It was back in the mid-eighties and New York was, as usual, broke and the skating rink in Central Park had completely disintegrated through neglect and there was no money in the budget to fix it. Ed Koch was mayor and he was trying to spin some plan for Albany to pay for it but they wouldn’t bite. Now this was about the time the city was going into another decline. Violence was starting to resurface after a lull in the early eighties. I think that maybe Trump was thinking of running for mayor or something. Well, he volunteered to rebuild the rink and pay for it himself. And he did, under budget and on schedule. But New York City had not yet hit bottom. It wasn’t ready for a Republican. That would happen after New York’s first black mayor, David Dinkins unleashed anarchy on the streets of New York. And that proved to be Rudy Giuliani’s time to fix the city. But he had a lawman’s background as a prosecutor. And he knew that the police would be the key to saving New York City. So, Donald Trump retreated to his business and his entertainment projects.
But thirty years later he decided that if someone as talentless as Barack Obama could be president for eight years then he could easily figure out the ropes himself and get something done for America. And he did. But why?
I think I understand a little bit what motivates him. He’s a twentieth century New York City American. I also am one. Of course he came from money. But not old money. His ancestors and mine came to the United States at about the same time. He and I lived in New York City at the same time. Of course, I came from the more interesting borough of Brooklyn and he came from Queens which as far as I’m concerned is more like part of Long Island but whatever, we both were part of twentieth century New York City which was the heart of twentieth century America. And we both watched it degraded from the capitol of the world to a dirty, poor, crime-ridden refugee camp. So, I think I know what he means when he talks about making America great again. He’s talking about restoring the people and the ethos that catapulted the United States to the status it had in 1945.
He wants to make a deal with the descendants of the people who fought World War II. If they’ll vote for him, he’ll save their grandchildren from the globalists who want to replace them with the third world. It’s really a pretty simple concept. Now I don’t know if he simply feels kinship with these people or if he sees an opportunity to capitalize on an underutilized resource (us). Either way it’s the best deal we’ll ever get. And at the same time, it’s a kick in the teeth for the Left and for the Bushes and Romneys. Win, win.
So, thank you Donald Trump. As an old neighbor of yours I salute you for lending a hand. Even if you are from Queens.
Recently I posted, “Cut and Paste Anglo-America.” The post was linked by my favorite news aggregation site, “Whatfinger” and got a lot of visibility with folks who aren’t usually on the site. One was a Canadian named Linn who wasn’t thrilled with my tongue in cheek idea of rearranging the two English speaking North American countries into a blue country and a red country. Here’s what he had to say:
“I think it is offensive to assume Canadians would be blithely willing to give up their history and identity to become a part of the United States. It is ironic that President Trump ran on a patriotic campaign of Make America Great Again, but other Americans think that Canadians do not have the same patriotic feelings about their country even though the government had been usurped by the foul socialist left. Hopefully, Pierre Poilievre will make great strides in Making Canada Great Again.”
When I read his comment, my first thought was, “I’m glad not all Canadians hate Trump.” Linn sounded like a Canadian patriot who wanted to get back his country from the Leftists. Bravo!
And it made me think of how long ago it was when I thought we could win back the country just by electing Republicans. How long ago I felt that the majority of Americans thought like me. I guess it was in 2004; more than twenty years ago. Wow, it seems even longer. And I thought of all the disappointments and waking up to just how useless and dishonest the Republican establishment actually was. Until Trump showed up it was Bushes, McCain and Romney all the way down. So now even when we win, I find myself pessimistic. After all the globalists control the whole apparatus of the modern world and do untold damage day in and day out.
But Linn’s comment got me thinking, there are good conservative people in most of the Western world. Look at the right-wing parties growing larger in Canada, England, France, Germany, Holland and Italy. Even Sweden and Denmark are beginning to come around. And look how the Right has already taken control in Austria and Hungary. And I’m sure there are conservative parties growing in every country in Europe.
Maybe it isn’t too late. Maybe things will come to a head while Trump is in office. Maybe we’ll see actual progress not just lip service to fixing the things that are broken. What would make a big difference would be if Trump’s deportation effort worked well and became a template for the Europeans to follow. Imagine if the French or the Italians were inspired to follow his lead and sent all the freeloaders packing. Now that would be a miraculous sight.
I guess what I’m thinking is that maybe Trump is a leader for our side not only in America but around the world. Maybe his example will rally people to the parties that want to take back their countries from the invaders. His stubborn determination to get the job done is kind of a big deal and if he succeeds here other countries might follow his lead. Everyone is always saying that America is the leader of the “free” world. Well, why does free have to be code for leftist? After all the leftists don’t want freedom anymore, except the freedom to define their sexuality in increasingly twisted and dysfunctional ways. We want freedom of speech, thought, action and association. We want freedom from being invaded by people who don’t like us or the way we live. We want our country back. Is that so much to ask?
So, we’ve had a lot of fun. Since November 5th most people on our side have had a real holiday from grief. We got to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas buoyed by the knowledge that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been relegated to the ash heap of history. What a wonderful phrase that is. What an image. There’s this enormous pile of cinders and burnt garbage and jumbled among these things are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris laying there covered with debris and looking extremely sad and confused. So evocative of a better world!
But it’s best not to forget that this victory is just the beginning of a very long and difficult struggle to wrest control of the federal government from the horde of awful bureaucrats that make everything about our government expensive, inefficient and destructive. It will be up to Trump’s cabinet to force a monkey wrench into the gears of government and wreck it. And the question remains; will they do it?
I get the impression that Kash Patel really means to do just that. And the fact that he was a prosecutor leads me to believe that he might have a good idea how to accomplish his goal of disemboweling the FBI. I think of his tenure as the test case. How long will it take for him to get going on the job? And how long will it take before someone like me can tell that it’s working? I’m guessing I’ll be able to tell if he’s having the desired effect if the New York Times and NPR are screaming that he’s destroying the FBI.
Maybe a bigger fish to fry is the purview of the Secretary of Defense. Assuming Pete Hegseth is approved by the Senate he’s going to have an enormous job clearing out all the woke generals and other officers that Biden and Obama plunked down in the military. But almost as important will be his implementation of Trump’s plan to end the Ukraine war. I assume it’s going to be necessary for Hegseth to micromanage the defense department personnel to prevent them from continuing to supply the Ukrainians with endless weapons and money to keep the killing going until the last Ukrainian is dead. He’s going to have to replace the existing supply chain personnel with people loyal to himself. That’s going to take some doing. There’s an enormous amount of money that gets distributed from the billions that go to Ukraine. Shutting off that spigot is going to anger hordes of people and it might even trigger violence. Hegseth will have his hands full. I guess I’ll know that Hegseth is succeeding if the number of Ukrainians being killed falls drastically. Probably the best indicator will be peace negotiations breaking out between Ukraine and Russia.
And finally Trump himself has a big part to play. He has to get involved in the negotiations on the budget. What I’m secretly craving is to hear that he’s managed to slip into the budget the elimination of the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If this could be eliminated it would put an enormous hole in the funding for PBS and NPR. The elimination of those two toxic waste sites would in one fell swoop elevate the public discourse in this country immensely. Think of it. I might never see Jonathan Capehart’s homely face ever again. For that alone I would consider Donald Trump’s second term in the White House a thunderous success.
Everybody is agog at the LA fires. It’s hard to believe that that level of incompetence and plain irresponsibility can exist in a metropolis the size of Los Angeles. But that’s what we have to realize. There is no back-up plan for this ongoing catastrophe. The two largest fires are still only 10 to 15% contained and have already burned 13,000 buildings. That means that there are already property losses in the tens of billions of dollars, and considering the high cost of houses in these areas, possibly much more.
But when the mayor or the governor are asked what is being done to save the properties surrounding the burned-out areas, they make it sound like this is an act of God that they have no responsibility for or power to fight. In all those videos of large forest fires we see planes filled with water dropping it on the fire. Well, what’s stopping California from requesting Washington to send aircraft of this kind? If the answer is that California doesn’t have any large bodies of water nearby then I’d remind them of that big blue thing called the Pacific Ocean somewhere West of LA. Sure, salt water is bad for the plants and everything else but I’m guessing that 2,000 °C fire is more than slightly worse.
But that is the reality. Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom are just going to try and hand wave their way through this and somehow try to blame Donald Trump and tell the victims that he has to foot the bill and make it all right. Well, I feel very badly for the victims of these fires. But they voted for these people because they agreed with the things the Democrats said they want to do. What happened is the end result of all those policies. What happened is the result of electing people who are incompetent. None of this is a surprise for the normally intelligent people who have been warning California about the direction they have been going for decades.
Well, there are thousands and thousands of angry, scared victims. And some of those people are Hollywood icons. And they are about to be dragged through the horror of trying to get a bureaucracy to treat them like suffering human beings. They are in for a world of pain. And all the people whose houses are spared this latest fire season aren’t going to forget how close they were to losing everything. Who knows? Maybe they’ll recall Bass and Newsom. That at least would be a start. Would it solve the problem. Nope. To do anything permanent the whole voting population of California would have to recall all of their state representatives and elect Republicans. And there are too many school teachers and prison guards who owe allegiance to the Democrat party for their lucrative positions.
So, nothing much will happen. But one of these days, the big one is going to hit Los Angeles. Something like a 7.5 on the Richter Scale. And the Angelenos are going to discover what having fake police, fire and emergency departments mean when there are thousands of people dead and injured. And something tells me that will be the one that wakes up even the most woke of the woke. When your family is buried under tons of debris and Assistant Fire Chief Kristine Larson tells you that they are out of luck because her lesbian POC firefighters can’t move heavy stones, well, that’s probably going to be the point when violence becomes the solution. But then again maybe I’m wrong. It’s been said many times that you can fix stupid. Viva California.
So, everybody’s been talking about Trump’s let’s-make-a-deal ideas about Greenland and Canada. I’ll leave the Panama Canal out of this because that’s more of a strategic situation. But Canada and Greenland are a very interesting opportunity. All of that northern real estate really makes a lot of sense if the world really is warming, for whatever reason. Northern Canada and even Greenland might be the new North American breadbasket. And the mineral wealth of the north is currently incalculably large.
Now some Canadians have been outraged at Trump’s talk about a 51st state. One Canadian legislator took a shot back and said that California, Oregon and Washington would be better off leaving the US and becoming a part of Canada. Well, that has its advantages for both sides. And it inspired me to think about the US and Canada getting together and doing some real horse-trading that would better align the red and blue parts of Anglo-America into two more homogeneous groupings. Basically, I imagined Canada adding the American Northeast, part of the Great Lakes States and the West Coast while America gets the Rocky Mountain, Plains and Arctic provinces and territories from Canada. Oh, and we paint Greenland red too.
Think of it. No more wrangling every four years during the elections. All of the blue states and the blue provinces together feeling smug and virtuous. While the red states and provinces will be rid of them and free to enjoy life on our own terms without their constant complaining, lunacy and hypocrisy.
Basically, we would lose about a third of our population but double the size of the country. They would more than triple their population while losing about a third of the area that was Canada. But there would be so much more temperate climate than in old Canada that I can’t imagine they’d complain much about it. One slight problem, their territory would no longer be one contiguous area. There would be East Coast Wokistan and West Coast Wokistan but what’s a few plane flights between friends? Plus, they’re bound to start a feud between themselves and that will just give them an excuse to break into two pieces anyway.
So, there it is. A big beautiful deal just waiting to be brokered by the world’s biggest wheeler-dealer. Come on make it happen.
| Region | Population | Area (square miles) |
| Current United States of America | 335,073,176 | 3,796,676 |
| Current Canada | 41,288,599 | 3,855,103 |
| Current Greenland | 56,583 | 836,330 |
| New and Improved USA | 233,003,747 | 6,290,802 |
| Whatever is Left Over | 143,414,611 | 2,197,307 |
Below is an ersatz map of what the two new countries would look like.
Below this is the details of the area and populations of the component states and provinces that I used for the calculations above.
| Current Regions | ||
| Region | Population | Area (square miles) |
| Alabama | 5,157,699 | 52,420 |
| Alaska | 740,133 | 665,384 |
| Arizona | 7,582,384 | 113,990 |
| Arkansas | 3,088,354 | 53,179 |
| Colorado | 5,957,493 | 104,094 |
| Delaware | 1,051,917 | 2,489 |
| District of Columbia | 702,250 | 68 |
| Florida | 23,372,215 | 65,758 |
| Georgia | 11,180,878 | 59,425 |
| Hawaii | 1,446,146 | 10,932 |
| Idaho | 2,001,619 | 83,569 |
| Indiana | 6,924,275 | 36,420 |
| Iowa | 3,241,488 | 56,273 |
| Kansas | 2,970,606 | 82,278 |
| Kentucky | 4,588,372 | 40,408 |
| Louisiana | 4,597,740 | 52,378 |
| Maryland | 6,263,220 | 12,406 |
| Michigan | 10,140,459 | 96,714 |
| Mississippi | 2,943,045 | 48,432 |
| Missouri | 6,245,466 | 69,707 |
| Montana | 1,137,233 | 147,040 |
| Nebraska | 2,005,465 | 77,348 |
| Nevada | 3,267,467 | 110,572 |
| New Mexico | 2,130,256 | 121,590 |
| North Carolina | 11,046,024 | 53,819 |
| North Dakota | 796,568 | 70,698 |
| Ohio | 11,883,304 | 44,826 |
| Oklahoma | 4,095,393 | 69,899 |
| Pennsylvania | 13,078,751 | 46,054 |
| South Carolina | 5,478,831 | 32,020 |
| South Dakota | 924,669 | 77,116 |
| Tennessee | 7,227,750 | 42,144 |
| Texas | 31,290,831 | 268,596 |
| Utah | 3,503,613 | 84,897 |
| Virginia | 8,811,195 | 42,775 |
| West Virginia | 1,769,979 | 24,230 |
| Wisconsin | 5,960,975 | 65,496 |
| Wyoming | 587,618 | 97,813 |
| Manitoba | 1,494,301 | 250,116 |
| Saskatchewan | 1,239,865 | 251,366 |
| Alberta | 4,888,723 | 255,541 |
| Northwest Territories | 44,731 | 519,734 |
| Yukon | 46,704 | 186,272 |
| Nunavut | 41,159 | 808,185 |
| Greenland | 56,583 | 836,330 |
| New and Improved USA | 233,003,747 | 6,290,802 |
| California | 39,431,263 | 163,695 |
| Connecticut | 3,675,069 | 5,543 |
| Illinois | 12,710,158 | 57,914 |
| Maine | 1,405,012 | 35,380 |
| Massachusetts | 7,136,171 | 10,554 |
| Minnesota | 5,793,151 | 86,936 |
| New Hampshire | 1,409,032 | 9,349 |
| New Jersey | 9,500,851 | 8,723 |
| New York | 19,867,248 | 54,555 |
| Oregon | 4,272,371 | 98,379 |
| Rhode Island | 1,112,308 | 1,545 |
| Vermont | 648,493 | 9,616 |
| Washington | 7,958,180 | 71,298 |
| Ontario | 16,124,116 | 415,598 |
| Quebec | 9,056,044 | 595,391 |
| Nova Scotia | 1,076,374 | 21,345 |
| New Brunswick | 854,355 | 28,150 |
| British Columbia | 5,698,430 | 364,764 |
| Prince Edward Island | 178,550 | 2,185 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 545,247 | 156,453 |
| Whatever is Left Over | 143,414,611 | 2,197,307 |
I lived in Calfornia in the early to mid sixties. Nice climate. Cheap gas, but it was still horribly expensive real estate compared to other states at the time. There were enough reservoirs so that we never had a “do not water lawns” restrictions. No brownouts, no blackouts. There were fires but the shrubbery that causes major fires was controlled and sensible and sustainable forestry practices were the norm. I was young and paid zero attention to politics.
We lived not terribly far from Watts during the race rIots. I had no trouble as I knew the kids from school and their parents thought I was polite. Being biracial was also a boon. I had a foot in both camps and my parents had raised me to not separate people by exterior appearances. I also got along with the Hispanic kids as many of them had at least partial Native American ancestry, although most of it was South and Central American tribes such as Aztec. And since I never shunned Black or Hispanic or the growing (back then) Asian population, I was accepted in pretty much all camps. But since then the left has gone to extremes to create racial hatred. It began in universities then trickled down to elementary schools to the idiocy you see today. Any school administration thatallowed drag reviews in primary education back then would have been ran out of town on a rail.
The left follows the Marxist/Leninist doctrine of first infiltrating schools. California is their glowing success. Massive school systems, immense school budgets. Ripe for conquest. Then fund and incite civil unrest.
In the early sixties California was doing almost everything right. Now they are doing almost everything wrong.
Rolling blackouts, whole towns burned off the face of the Earth, multimillion-dollar shacks, endemic rampant crime, homeless encampments everywhere, endless drug addicts, legislated anti-white hate, LGBTQ lunacy, hopeless energy policies and an unaffordable cost of living. I could go on but why bother? California has become emblematic of absurd progressive policies and the disastrous effects they’ve caused.
And now when the wealthier parts of Los Angeles are literally going up in smoke some people are wondering if this is the moment when the Californians will turn away from the Democrats and bring in the Republicans to fix the mess. Well, they might. But if the Republicans are smart, they won’t sign up for the job. Specifically, no Republican in his right mind should run for or even accept if appointed to the governorship of California. Well, let me qualify that. If the citizens of California also elected a majority of Republicans to the legislature too, then it might have some value. If all of the insane laws that have been passed in the last thirty years could be cancelled and the state could be put back onto a rational basis then it might work. But short of that it’s a death trap. Look what happened to poor hapless Arnold Schwarzeneggar. The voters elected him to clean up the mess from their previous feckless Democrat governor but basically all he could do was preside over the freak show that the Democrat super-majorities in the legislature ordained. Of course, he really didn’t put up any fight at all. So, nobody remembers him fondly. And the state continued its slide into ruin right on schedule during his term.
Just as when we talk about New York trying to save a sinking ship, the reality of who the voters are in California has to be faced. The state has an enormous illegal alien population and an equally enormous population of people living off the government in one way or another. None of these people will ever vote for a Republican or anyone else who promises to balance the books. No, the system will have to crash so hard that the welfare checks stop getting delivered before the bread and circus crowd will pay attention to how bad things are going.
So where does that leave things? Well, it looks like any frame houses in Los Angeles are just waiting for the wind and the arsonists to find them. If I lived in LA, I think I’d get together with my neighbors and cut down all the trees and shrubs in the neighborhood and haul them away. Then I’d invest in fire-proofing materials to protect my house. But most importantly, I’d sell my house at whatever price I can get and move out of the Golden State as fast as I possibly could. Because every time some new atrocity appears on the ground everyone declares that it can’t possibly get any worse and in fact this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and things will get better. Well, I don’t think that is even remotely the case. I think it will get phenomenally worse as more people leave. The tipping point is already here and we’re just waiting for something like this fire season to find out things like there’s no water in the fire hydrants and the firefighters are now overweight lesbians who won’t be able to carry anyone out of burning buildings and the city has cut the budget for the fire department to pay for DEI training.
And that’s just for something minor like wildfires. What happens when there’s a major earthquake? Good luck then.