George Rebane

Evidence of the impassable gulf between the minds of dedicated collectivists (leftists, progressives, Marxists, wokes, …) and forms or reasoning/logic that work.  From that tribe a local worthy (Richard Howell here) contends that California’s offering free health care to illegal aliens does not impact their decisions to make our state their new home.  His understanding of human nature is that offering more benefit for some behavior does NOT encourage more of such behavior (Pavlov and Skinner call your office).  This fundamental chasm of ignorance is shared by members of our one-party state legislature who continue to make the public policies that power the Great California Exodus.

“I am SOMEBODY and I deserve full equality” reads one of the signs held by some of California's universities’ hunger-striking students here illegally.  The Daily Californian describes the participating students’ hope “that the strike will encourage the university to accept a proposal allowing for the hiring of undocumented students. Currently, undocumented students cannot hold any campus job, including research and teaching assistant positions.”  Apparently the plethora of benefits they already receive for being ‘somebody’ able to fog a mirror in California are not sufficient.  Nowhere in this discussion is mentioned the current availability of such jobs for students here legally.  (more here)

[31jan24 update]  The Pentagon prepares its cadres to fight domestic “rightwing terrorism” as one of its high hard operational objectives.  No one knows from what basis the DOD has adopted the suppression of domestic terrorism of any hue as one of its operational mandates.  Here is the latest on its internal efforts to spread the word and alert its cadres to imminent danger.  From their announcement of the meeting we read, “They (… the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol) are the latest flashpoints in a process that has been unfolding for decades, in which vast conspiracy theories and radical ideologies such as white supremacism, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and hostility to government converge into a deadly threat to democracy. … This talk, derived from the speakers’ new book, God, Guns, and Sedition (Columbia Univ. Press) discusses the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States, the impact of U.S. domestic terrorism on our foreign policy and our allies, and policy recommendations to counter far-right terrorism.”

[4feb24 update]  Illegals can vote in Arizona, “even though it’s a felony under federal law for an alien to register and vote”.  And then receiving a voter registration card, the illegal alien can use that as a bona fide identity to apply for and qualify for all kinds of additional government goodies.  Anti-American Democrats are, of course, all for it as another of their reliable vote buying gimmicks.  (more here)

Gavin Newsom, the Brylcreem Kid, let slip again how incredibly ignorant he is about almost everything to do with what’s happening in California, and how Democrat policies continue to damage California and its wealth producing citizens.  He was shopping in retail store while it was being openly robbed by a gang of thieves.  When they left, he excoriated the store’s staff for not doing anything to stop them.  His diatribe made it clear that he had no idea that today such thievery is perfectly legal in California, and the store’s employees are legally liable if they do anything to impede the thugs or the robbery in progress.  Police no longer respond to nor do the district attorneys prosecute such obvious criminality.  In response, stores are now moving out of (mostly poor) neighborhoods where such behavior has become the norm.  Another Democratic gift that keeps on giving as our culture spirals into the mud. (more here)