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I have lost all faith in any election process
But-


Isn’t the only and best option Trimino?
For a chance to win & 100% no mandates

When the recall happened I voted Kiley -

Kiley backed by parents. ill vote for him.

Vote June 7. In Person.
That is the most likely way to insure your votes will be counted
https://www.eip-ca.com/index.htm

Watch the new movie documentary 2000 Mules
https://rumble.com/v13v4sv-2000-mules.html


We endorse Dr Richard Fox
California 16th Congressional (seat now held by Anna Eschoo, Big Pharma favorite)
Dr. Fox is the most libertarian major candidate for any office in the area.
He has placed 2nd in the past. If he finishes 1st or 2nd in a multi-field of candidates,
it may be a run off between Dr Fox and Cong. Eshoo in November
https://www.drfoxforcongress.com/
https://www.drfoxforcongress.com/quick-takes/#tech-censorship
https://www.drfoxforcongress.com/quick-takes/#Fight-High-Gasoline-Cost
https://www.drfoxforcongress.com/on-the-issues/


We endorse Virginia Chang Kiraly
San Mateo County Supervisor, 3rd District
Virginia believes in small gov’t, less taxes, scrutiny over spending
Independent thinker; not corrupt; not committed to special interests (medicrats, unions, corporations, educrats)
https://virginiachangkiraly.com/
https://padailypost.com/2022/05/21/candidate-profile-virginia-chang-kiraly-wants-to-cut-waste-opposes-proposed-countywide-parcel-tax/
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-virginia-chang-kiraly-for-district-3-supervisor-in-san-mateo-county/article_47523a6a-cced-11ec-a60c-db87ec08adac.html


We endorse Reinette Senum
Governor, California
Reinette understands how corrupt politicians and bureaucrats have cooperated in with special interests and misguided zealots to enact policies which have only resulted in the deterioration of personal freedom, safety, and culture.
She is articulate, energetic, knows the issues, the source of the problems, and the pathway to solutions.
Somewhat libertarian, learning, listens.
Former Mayor of Nevada City, she has seen and experienced the realities of how things “work” today.
Running as Independent, not beholden to political party directions and management.
https://www.electreinette.com/
"The government’s business ends at our skin. The government should never restrict, coerce, or mandate a medical intervention or treatment. Californians have the right to be informed of all treatment options – along with the respective risks and benefits – and whatever decision they make for themselves or their children must be honored and respected. The patient and doctor/medical practitioner relationship is sacred and must be respected.”

"For many years, California businesses have been overtaxed and overregulated. For the last two years, the government has severely restricted California’s businesses while conveniently ignoring the countless consequences of these restrictions. We must turn this around. We need to reduce business taxes, business fees, and red tape.”

"Californians must be able to afford to live in California. The ever-increasing cost of living has more Californians living in poverty than any other state. We must:

Shore up California’s finances: Conduct rigorous and certified financial and operational audits on the State of California.
Rebuild the local and regional businesses.
Reduce California’s income and corporate taxes.
Reduce land-use regulations to allow for more affordable housing.
Eliminate the gas tax.
Expand California’s Infrastructure Bank to include providing low-interest loans to mom and pop businesses, Main Street businesses, and small to large scale manufacturing.
End AB5 (which has harmed independent contractors and set off a supply chain disaster and subsequent rise in the cost of goods)

Politicians should never determine who works and who does not."
"The issue in California is not a lack of state funds, but rather the misuse of funds, compounded by a lack of transparency as to where tax dollars go. We need certified audits of state expenditures to prevent hard-earned dollars from being usurped from our businesses and citizens with little to no benefit for them. Once we clean up California’s accounting, it’ll be time for a wholesale reduction of taxes in the state, and that includes considering the pros and cons to ending the income tax.”

Two registered voters I live with asked me to fill out their mail-in ballots. They are busy working and I am retired.

I showed one of them my filled out ballot. I said that I don't care how you vote, but you can see how I voted if you are interested. Then if you have any questions we can discuss. Yes, there was one question. I explained my understanding of the ballot proposition and explained my choice. This housemate filled out their ballot and enclosed it in the envelope for mailing.

The other person is my partner ("spouse"). This person told me they're too busy, just fill out my ballot for me voting the same way you did, and I'll sign the envelope. Easy enough.

Put those two in the mail this morning, with mine.

I mailed in mine too. Hopefully it will get counted correctly, but I'm not very sure of that.

Going to vote in person

B.A.C.A.H. says

The other person is my partner ("spouse"). This person told me they're too busy, just fill out my ballot for me voting the same way you did, and I'll sign the envelope. Easy enough.

I vehemently disagree with you doing this. You should have voided the ballot.

If somebody isn't well enough educated about issues, they should sit out the vote, not allow you to vote for them, regardless. I would have made your spouse fill it out, even if you directed your spouse. They should at least understand your thinking and reasoning and they should especially understand the consequences.

There's an election for governor?

Why isn't this in the news?

Anybody got a link to the debates?

richwicks says

If somebody isn't well enough educated about issues, they should sit out the vote,

Concur.

There were some local non-partisan stuff like local (not state) board of equalization, tax assessor, etc that I did not make a choice, because I am not informed on those. Left those blank. Therefore, my partner also abstained on those.

My partner shares my values and trusts that I vote my values. This is a total level of trust that comes in a loving relationship. Kind of like having power of attorney over one another, and the power to make advanced directive decisions, which are values based. Maybe you can't relate.

California's so fucked up but it's still a wonderful place to live.

Onvacation says

California's so fucked up but it's still a wonderful place to live.

Yep

I think of California like a really beautiful woman with severe issues.

The question is which side of the hot-crazy line she is on. California is 9 hot and 9 crazy. Maybe "dating" material, in the sense of still living here.

Onvacation says

California's so fucked up but it's still a wonderful place to live.

It WAS an interesting place to live. My bet, is you've never lived anywhere else.

I grew up in a tiny town in Northern NY, went to college in Buffalo, then to Indiana, then Boston, then Boulder Colorado, then Silly Con Valley.

I am starting to view the people I live among as sheep. One of my coworkers "respectfully disagreed" about my reasoning about masking and getting a shot - they just disagreed, they couldn't explain why. This used to be a place of rebels, THINKING rebels. Now it's conformist deadwood. I have lost almost all my respect for people I once respected. They're just conformists.

As far as I can tell, my understanding of the world has been increasing over time, these people are forgetting the lessons I thought they learned. Now it's Slava Ukraini by many of them, what about Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia? They don't even know. They are cattle. I can understand ignorance, who isn't ignorant at some point, but jumping on board for something you know nothing about and fiercely defending it? That's pathetic unthinking obedience, and most of Silly Con Valley has those type of people.

I understand the contempt the supposed "elite" have. All they have is say stick a spoon up your asshole, and that will protect you from our made up pandemic, and 99% of the population will do it. The mainstream population is so gullible, so naive, no matter HOW MANY TIMES they've been lied to, they still follow. It's no wonder they see them as subhuman.

There's a danger in being "well educated", people equate that as being "smart". "I understand the Fourier transform and how ECC and RSA works - and if our media says the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated - I couldn't be fooled but I won't think about the contradiction of what I learned about biology in 8th grade". "Trust the authorities,"

I need to withdraw from this den of vipers and their suckling pigs.

Patrick says

The question is which side of the hot-crazy line she is on. California is 9 hot and 9 crazy. Maybe "dating" material, in the sense of still living here.

Maybe an extra dimension would do on that representation, something about "roots".

Not sure what that would mean on the analogy. It can be compelling for some types of people, high school sweetheart (iwog) or whatever.

Maybe something like some of the lyrics in Californian Huey Lewis' song "Happy To Be Stuck With You." The DJ played that one at our 25th anniversary bash.

Maybe our friend who criticized me above can't relate.

richwicks says

It WAS an interesting place to live. My bet, is you've never lived anywhere else.

I grew up in a tiny town in Northern NY, went to college in Buffalo, then to Indiana, then Boston, then Boulder Colorado, then Silly Con Valley.

CA is a huge state. Plenty of nice places to live no matter whether you have seen the rest of the world or not

richwicks says

then to Indiana, then Boston

@richwicks Where did you live in Indiana and Boston?

I lived in South Bend freshman year, then Somerville outside Boston for a year after college.

mell says

CA is a huge state. Plenty of nice places to live no matter whether you have seen the rest of the world or not

I won't argue with this.

Here's where I grew up: https://goo.gl/maps/r32Rcm6B4tCpqvQf7

When people hear "NY" they think of NYC, and when people hear "California" it's Silly Con Valley, LA, and Pedoweird.

I have seen how NYC fucked over the rest of NY, I don't think it's worthwhile to remain in California forever.

richwicks says

There's a danger in being "well educated", people equate that as being "smart".

There's a huge amount of ego involved in "education", especially in the Ivy League.

For people who invested a lot in that "education", it's just way too painful to admit that it's mostly a sham.

There are some really smart people at Ivy League schools doing interesting things, but they are recruited to be there just to legitimate the sham.

richwicks says

I am starting to view the people I live among as sheep.

richwicks says

This used to be a place of rebels, THINKING rebels. Now it's conformist deadwood.

Dude, I was here when you were still in diapers. The "tech" world that you cite is a spinoff of the aerospace defense industry, super-conformist. I was fortunate to straddle my working years as an engineer in that millieu and the millieu that you wrote of as your Good Old Days.

richwicks says

I understand the contempt the supposed "elite" have. All they have is say stick a spoon up your asshole, and that will protect you from our made up pandemic, and 99% of the population will do it.

richwicks says

The mainstream population is so gullible, so naive, no matter HOW MANY TIMES they've been lied to, they still follow. It's no wonder they see them as subhuman.

OK, so here we are. What are you going to do about it?

Since I retired three years ago I've been doing volunteering, and donating blood. I donated too much blood, at the maximum rate of once every two months, that I had to back off
to about half that rate because my RBC count was below guidelines at 60 days. I am blessed (or, lucky for you atheists) to be one of the 30 or so percent of people who can donate. Maybe save a life. To be honest, I am a little bit ashamed that it did not occur to me that I should do this until I was 57 years old.

Lots of volunteer time with The Health Trust. Yes, I know, I am helping sheep. But in my own little way I am doing my own little thing to make a little difference. I can bitch and moan and complain and belittle others but it won't make any difference, except to make me miserable.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Maybe an extra dimension would do on that representation, something about "roots".

@B.A.C.A.H. I can understand that.

I've considered moving back to the two places I grew up in, just to be near relatives and things from my childhood. But I can't quite do it.

Patrick says

I've considered moving back to the two places I grew up in, just to be near relatives and things from my childhood. But I can't quite do it.

You've been here long enough, you have grown your own roots here. Maybe not roots others planted before you like cousins or whatever, but your own roots. Your friends, your spouse's etc. Some folks including me have shared on other threads that we're compelled to be Remainers for this sort of reason.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Dude, I was here when you were still in diapers. The "tech" world that you cite is a spinoff of the aerospace defense industry, super-conformist. I was fortunate to straddle my working years as an engineer in that millieu and the millieu that you wrote of as your Good Old Days.

I came out here to make an informational system that was uncontrollable by a few. I still believe in this. What I'm working on now, it will be uncontrollable. Encryption is a bitch though.

B.A.C.A.H. says

OK, so here we are. What are you going to do about it?

I am going to open Pandora's Box. I could have done this 20 years ago, but people would have asked "why? Why are you doing this, for something illegal? What evil shit are you making this for?"

Well, what I'm working on will make evil shit possible, but our government clearly doesn't care about that, but it also allows complete freedom. I recognize the danger in doing this, but when my government is protecting fuckers like Jeffrey Epstein - does it matter?

B.A.C.A.H. says

I am blessed (or, lucky for you atheists) to be one of the 30 or so percent of people who can donate. Maybe save a life.

I did dog rescue for a long time. You don't save lives, you extend them. I did work in a few "charities", they all go corrupt. Even for the most innocuous things they do.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Lots of volunteer time with The Health Trust. Yes, I know, I am helping sheep. But in my own little way I am doing my own little thing to make a little difference. I can bitch and moan and complain and belittle others but it won't make any difference, except to make me miserable.

I'm at a loss just as you are.

What do we do?

The original internet was subversive, and it was dangerous, you could literally find anything without consequence. I have decided to bring that back. I think people are generally good and we have a small minority of evil people on top of us.

I ultimately have a belief in our humanity. I think we're generally good - I think most people are good people. I think they need more power and I will give that to them, AT THE EXPENSE of giving evil power as well. I think evil people are in the minority.

If Twitter was uncensored, or Youtuube was, or Facebook was - what would we have? I want to make an uncensorable system. The only way to stop it, is for police to show up at your door.

B.A.C.A.H. says

You've been here long enough, you have grown your own roots here. Maybe not roots others planted before you like cousins or whatever, but your own roots. Your friends, your spouse's etc. Some folks including me have shared on other threads that we're compelled to be Remainers for this sort of reason.

Lol, actually I did find that I have cousins around here and in the Sacramento area after moving out here. My last name is unusual, so I looked in the phone book after getting here and found a few second cousins. I've met them since then and occasionally see them.

Wife has cousins in the Bay Area as well. So we're not all that isolated.

richwicks says

I'm at a loss just as you are.

I am not at a loss, homie.

If I cannot help others, even clueless sheeple that you expressed contempt for, then I have no purpose here. Who gives a sh*t about what we do at work? Someone else will fill those workplace milestones if we aren't the warm bodies filling those roles.

It's not about Judgement Day or whatever. It's personal integrity / ethics.

richwicks says

One of my coworkers "respectfully disagreed" about my reasoning about masking and getting a shot - they just disagreed, they couldn't explain why.

I showed one of my colleagues a peer reviewed paper which showed that cloth masks dont work, and one needs N95 + a bunch of rules how to use it. Next day (after walking around in a cloth mask for half year) he showed up in N95...not effect that I expected.

B.A.C.A.H. says

spinoff of the aerospace defense industry, super-conformist. I was fortunate to straddle my working years as an engineer in that millieu

Interesting. We had a close friend who worked on space sbuttle design in 1970s in CA, then got fed up with everything and moved to a farm in Wisconsin.

B.A.C.A.H. says

richwicks says

I'm at a loss just as you are.

I am not at a loss, homie.

If I cannot help others, even clueless sheeple that you expressed contempt for, then I have no purpose here.

First, I was talking about dogs and human beings. They are (obviously) quite different, I can fix nearly (nearly) any dog, no matter what kind of horrible person they had. I was good at it. I have failed with one dog. I couldn't fix her, she was dangerous, and unpredictable, and I had to euthanize her. She went through 3 foster homes, I was arrogant and confident I could fix anything, and I couldn't. She cut me down. I still wonder what I could have done to change her dangerous behavior, I couldn't communicate with her.

Second, I don't have contempt for people. I'm at a loss to reach them. Perhaps I am wrong, but they will make no effort to explain how I am wrong, if I'm wrong. The lack of input to explain how I'm incorrect leads me to think I'm correct.

Try to explain why you think allowing their 7 year old kid to be a "drag queen" is wrong? Have them respond. Good luck, you're just a bigot. It goes well beyond that, why should free speech be limited on Twitter? "Oh people are just too stupid" - that's what idiots say when they have never listened to "stupid" people. "Stupid people" are the closest thing to people. I'm the aberration - over-educated egg-head.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Who gives a sh*t about what we do at work? Someone else will fill those workplace milestones if we aren't the warm bodies filling those roles.

This area was really once a total meritocracy. NOBODY gave a fuck about your personal life, it was exclusively "can you solve this problem?" Didn't matter if the person was straight, gay, male, female, whatever - can you solve this problem? Work life was ENTIRELY divorced from performance.

B.A.C.A.H. says

It's not about Judgement Day or whatever. It's personal integrity / ethics.

How ironic for me to say this - we are NOT machines. Perhaps we are machines at work, but outside of work, none of your damned business. I can do what you need me to do, at work. My job is only my job, and anything outside of my job, unless it was vanilla, was not permitted.

What I'm running into is, should I do what you want me to do? There's several companies I will not work for. It's kind of a war. There's sides I won't work for, I won't help. I've switched sides, more than once, and there's not two sides, there's dozens.

I have friends that work simply for money, knowing they are fucking up the world. I can't do that, would rather die in the resistance. I have lost so much respect for friends, because they are such fucking whores. It's literally "hahaha, I made a shitload of money, not my problem", EVEN IF their kids are slaves a result. This is the boomer generation for me but my friend is in X - my generation, he's ingested the poison - no civic responsibility.. The boomers fucked over their parents and children, they had no principles. We've been in 7 wars since 2000, there was a protest against ONE. First generation to really dig into dog eats dog.

If this is the way it is, fuck it. I can hardly make it worse. In 20 years, a server will cost $20 bucks, or the same cost as a loaf of bread.

What I create transcends my life. I'm aware of that.

Shellenberger on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight...

My home county, Alameda, has just imposed a mask mandate on the basis of what, at this point, should be considered pseudoscience.

Mask mandates don’t work. As governor, I will disallow them, end covid vax mandates, & end the state of emergency.https://t.co/GWcjJWUu3n

— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 3, 2022

richwicks says

This area was really once a total meritocracy. NOBODY gave a fuck about your personal life, it was exclusively "can you solve this problem?" Didn't matter if the person was straight, gay, male, female, whatever - can you solve this problem? Work life was ENTIRELY divorced from performance.

It was always better before the shallow whippersnappers came here and ruined everything.
Said the high value agriculture small farmers here in SC Valley when I was a kid.
Said the totally conformist aerospace engineers here when I was a teenager.
Said the semiconductor and magnetic storage folks when I was cutting my teeth in technology.
And so on. It was always better before, when I came of age, than it is now.

richwicks says

It WAS an interesting place to live. My bet, is you've never lived anywhere else.

If I really did not like a place I would try to make it better or move. I've lived in a couple places and traveled a lot. I, personally, like where I live.

California attracts the best, the brightest, and the craziest from all over the world. Some thrive, others run up their credit cards and move home.

I think things look worse for those of us that were born around the 70s or earlier and have watched how CA has played out especially in LA and SF.
CA is trapped in a negative feedback loop, elections will not change anything. Most of you are pretty rational and you have been slowly replaced by parasites that think nothing like you. If your happy where you are good, hopefully your little pocket of paradise holds out and your kids have already moved on.
Most of the kids being born and raised in CA are being indoctrinated into the parasitic victim entitlement culture.

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/dr-brian-tyson-congressional-primary

Tomorrow is an important day: Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Tomorrow is the primary for the 25th Congressional District of (Southern) California where Dr. Brian Tyson is running.

What else needs to be said about Brian. He was one of the doctors who stepped up to save perhaps hundreds of lives in Southern California by not giving in to medical nihilism during the pandemic. I suspect that between his own patients, and the leadership he exhibited in getting the word out about early treatment, he is responsible for saving thousands of lives, suffering for many more, and also millions of dollars worth of invaluable medical resources.

His clinics have now treated at least 11,000 patients with (last I heard) just 4 hospitalizations and 0 deaths among those who were treated during the first few days of symptoms. Brian was always willing to share his time with all those asking questions—even while he was enjoying vacation on Independence Day.

Please share this with your friends in Southern California who can cast a vote for Dr. Tyson. Our nation needs a rock to stand firm while sorting out the aftermath of the pandemic medical fiasco.

Californians for School Choice

Patrick --

In our last email message, we sent a list of candidates who have indicated their support for the Educational Freedom Act Initiative, being advanced by the California School Choice Foundation.

Since this email went out, several other candidates have been anxious to make their support for the EFA known. They are the following:

Angela Jacobs Underwood, Lieutenant Governor

James Shoemaker, CD9

Jeff Gorman, CD19

Mike Maher, CD21

Rudy Melendez, CD29

Bill Spinney, CD39

Lori Mills, AD42

These lists are designed to do one thing only – to inform you of a candidate’s support for School Choice. While we are a non-partisan operation, we want you to know about candidates who align with your values.

Michael Alexander
http://www.californiaschoolchoice.org/

https://www.cleardb.org/act/3/no-sb-866

https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/as-goes-california-chesa-boudin-dc-diary-06-07-22/

As Californians vote in primaries today, it’s a recall race in San Francisco grabbing most of the attention. Chesa Boudin has become the face of the group of progressive prosecutors who have overseen rising crime in major American cities. If he is booted out in perhaps America’s most liberal city, the message on the dangers of a lax approach to law and order will surely be loud enough to penetrate the Democratic echo changer. (Read Gilbert T. Sewall on the recall race on our site.) Victory for the recall campaign will encourage those running a similar effort to oust LA’s progressive prosecutor, George Gascón. And it might even cause others from the same movement overseeing growing lawlessness in cities like Philadelphia and Chicago to consider a change in direction.

In Los Angeles, Rick Caruso looks to be finding some success with a cunning strategy to win as a big city Republican. Step one: change your party registration to Democrat (which Caruso did a few years ago). Step two: make the most of the fact you are a billionaire by outspending your competitors by several orders of magnitude. Step three: Get famous people to endorse you. Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry are just some of the A-listers touting the property-developer-turned-politician’s candidacy. Let’s see if it works.

We went to vote. I go in there so mad, now. No ID. Guy says "would you like to vote on a tablet? It's a lot easier". I said, "No, I don't want to vote on a fraud machine. Paper ballots." Look he gave me. Fuckers have to be told the scam isn't flying somewhere, even if the vote is still defrauded, which it is.

There is one woman I notice who is always there at the election place and gives off 'creepy vibe' like no other. I think she is the main machine apparatchik for the local KommieKunt jackboots.

voted NO on everything and wrote in bad words for all candidates. yeah throw away vote, i simply don’t care about these immoral selfish assholes and their power games.

My cousin who used to live in CA but got out had the right idea. Vote yes on everything until the state collapses.