George Rebane
California sucks as a place to live and do business. According to ongoing polling – e.g. latest USNWR poll – the state is the worst state in the Union in which to do business. It also ranks in the bottom three in essentially all other categories such as cost of living, crime, homelessness, K-12 education, illegal aliens, welfare recipients, taxes, regulations, level of government fraud, maintained infrastructure, … . The reason for this is clear since the state’s voters are among the dumbest in the nation, returning corrupt and incompetent politicians to office decade after decade.
Intellectually America’s adults rank below average in literacy, numeracy, and adaptive problem solving among the world’s top 30 OECD countries. Thus reports the longtime international metric PIAAC (Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) that does the testing. (US = 754, OECD ave = 773) This is the result of our teachers’ union dominated K-12 public education system and our academe handing out garbage degrees of socialist ideologies providing graduates with worthless skillsets. All of this is the result of the country spiraling into the grip of collectivist governance and public policies.
President Trump continues to prevaricate in the Iranian war. At least now the conservative media outlets have started criticizing his “patience” with the ragheads, and continuing to attempt negotiating with the non-negotiators. As he picks around the edges, attacking missile launchers and storage facilities, Iran attacks its neighbors with missiles accurately targeting their energy and power infrastructures, and also lobbing a few into the personnel quarters of US military bases. All of Trump’s supporters know that there is nothing to negotiate, only to affect regime change by taking out their leadership and attacking their infrastructure.
The lamestream media is ever the handmaiden of our socialists cum communists by lying to their intellectually deficient audiences that since our wealthiest 1% own 40% of our wealth, that 40% comes directly from the pockets of our middle class. The bastards do their best to hide all benefits of free market capitalism, most certainly by not telling their minions that the 40% is the munificent marginal wealth created by the 1% that then gets reinvested to create jobs and build the country for all of us. It does not get stuffed away and hoarded in mattresses.
All the bad stuff in the country comes from Democrat policies and under their governance. This may sound a bit simplistic, but I challenge readers to identify social problems that are the direct result of rightwing policies and governance. While some examples may be found, the comparison of the scale and amounts of such problems is in no way close to equal. Collectivists continue to be and have always caused the diverse miseries suffered by societies since the French Revolution.
[30jul26 update] “U.S. forces carried out a “heavy wave” of strikes, attacking dozens of targets, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities, said U.S. Central Command after the strikes were completed. “The strikes aimed to further diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighboring Gulf countries,” the command said.” (29ul26 WSJ) This is what one more Trump nothing-burger looks like. Such military responses have not reduced Iran’s ability to strike American bases, neighboring countries’ infrastructure, and commercial shipping, nor will they promise any future impact. As long as Iran’s infrastructure – transportation, power, communications, energy – remains intact, the regime will not be impacted as it adroitly insures its survival and increases political pressure on the Republicans with the approaching elections.
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