Once upon a time everyone in the Republican firmament held the exact same position on Donald Trump, which ranged from appalled to aghast, with plenty of space for agog to alarmed to humored mixed in. The unifying factor though was the unity of opposition to the indecency, stupidity and incompetence.
I fear the very little man from Florida will be recycled and brought back for ‘28 ala Nixon The powerful monied interests know he is flaccid and will mold him into a “new fascist” dressed up to look normal.
Watch the roll of DNC, Liz Chaney, harris,RFK jr, Lincoln project, Romney all will play an outsized roll is saving democracy if it is to be saved.
A small mention. Indigenous peoples may have lived in harmony with nature however people are people. It was hardly a harmonious kum bah ya of tribal peace. Slavery was not common but Alaskan tribes did “run slaves”. It’s a history among us most ignore.
Steve writes: "human beings lived in harmony with nature and the earth for 600 generations before the first Europeans arrived on the North American continent." What? Even if you count a generation as 100 years, and that is really much too long, 600 generations don't go back nearly far enough! The earliest-known remains of modern humans, found in Morocco, date to around 315,000 years ago, and human ancestors "lived in harmony with nature and the earth" more than a million years before that.
As for defining “harmony” we find a great of evidence that we humans have had a complicated relationship not only with each other, but a brutal unforgiving one with nature.
Regarding Steve’s comments about slavery in this otherwise eloquent column, Steve is correct that slavery has long existed and was not a western invention.
However slavery in America was different in that the American South became what is called a “slave society”, in which the economy and all white institutions, social relationships and customs revolved around the desire and need to keep enslaved Black peoples enslaved and to stop them from rebelling or escaping to freedom.
Moreover, the American Revolution did not promise or promote an end to slavery. Instead, as many slaves escaped to the British forces and freedom, this was the era when brutal slave codes were established to prevent enslaved people from leaving their masters’ plantations, from gathering together, from learning to read and write, and from doing anything that might further their freedom. And as well, white militias were established to patrol the country in search of slaves attempting to escape or to rebel against slavery.
In fact, rather than “crushing slavery”, the “ideals of the American Revolution” were in many ways shaped and inspired by slave owning white Americans’ understanding of the horrors of slavery and thus of the immense value of human freedom. --- for white people only.
The California indigenous peoples suffered the worst of the genocide of Manifest Destiny. John C. Fremont was responsible for three massacres of Native Americans, slaughtering hundreds. He is one of those Coming Americans, bringing death and destruction, ruled by greed and an innate hatred of Nature. There are no grizzly bears ( the state mammal) except on the state flag.
REBUTTAL TO STEVE SCHMIDT'S USE OF SAM WALTER FOSS
(from world citizen, Tracy Everitt)
Parallelling the wishes for kinds of Men he wants for founding California made by Mr. Foss, I will write this in response---
"Bring me men who despise empires and instead want social values that demand no one else's wealth and no one else's territory.
Bring me men who will love the native Indians and make friends with them. and forever be admiring of them, and respect all treaties made with them, unto eternity..
Bring me men have studied philosophy, studied the greatest theories of economics, and want nothing but to gain in wisdom.
Bring me men who have read the great literatures of all time, from all countries."
What Jimmy Breslin once said about Rudy Giuliani is equally applicable to Ron DeSantis: "He is a small man in search of a balcony." As exhibit "A" one need look no further than his elevator boots.
"It wasn’t so much the pettiness, which was spectacular, but the smallness of spirit towards the country, and specifically its largest state, evidenced by Ron DeSantis that stood out."
To what do we owe this sensitivity toward criticism of California and related spin to make criticism of Newsom and the cast of Democrat clowns running the state and its large cities into the sewer, a criticism of California? Newsom sucks. He has better hair and teeth, but less integrity, than does Adam Schiff and the leaders of the Lincoln Project.
"I do believe that California has more natural advantages than any state in the country, which is why when you have so many people leaving on net, that’s hard to do."
Yup. I have lived here for 45 years and this is the key. California is drop-dead gorgeous, as are other states, but it has the advantage of Mediterranean weather for most of its territory. Corrupt and talentless ruling-class politicians like Newsom simply leverage those assets to make his lying claim of high performance. It is incredible how much abuse the residents will tolerate for good weather. California is not Newsom, and Newsom is not California. Newsom is part of a metastasizing blood cancer called Democrat that is killing the state from within while the body, except for the scars of unmanaged forest wildfires, and trash, tents and feces lining the sidewalks, continues to be the most beautiful in the nation.
Just read that CA, after having a near $100 billion surplus is looking at a $60 billion deficit as tax receipts have crashed. This is from the state with the highest overall tax rates in the nation. Meanwhile Florida, a state with zero income tax, is sporting its highest budget surplus in history of $22 billion.
You would think that good establishment Republicans would celebrate that and give the nod to DeSantis. But maybe this isn't really a site of good establishment Republicans.
Would appreciate the source on this tax info. Thnx
Also curious as to just who these “good establishment” Republicans are…. What have they done about the cancer to democracy which is Trump? Where do they stand on women’s right to health care and fascist book bans?
You mean I don't subscribe to your overheated politicized emotive hyperbole on the topic. Because I completely understand the real truth and facts related to women's heath care issues and the topic of abortion. I think I am just more intellectually honest about it, and that troubles you.
Trust me here, I am as disgusted with the life-at-conception people as I am the unrestricted abortion up to birth and maybe after people.
I don’t want to get into an argument with you, but NO ONE believes in “unrestricted abortion up to birth and maybe after.” Congratulations to you, a man, who knows more about being a woman than most women!
LOL. Vulnerable narcissism on display. Aka a "crybully"
So, nobody but women (who cannot be defined by your political tribe) can comment on anything related to women. Got it. Interesting that you feel so free to denigrate "man" in your comments. I guess feminist misandrism is a hard habit to break.
Now back to the topic. What number of month in gestation should abortion be restricted to? If you are really not advocating abortion up to birth and maybe after, you should have some number of weeks in mind.
I doubt you do, because you support unrestricted abortion up to birth.
I will say this about the Handmaiden's Tale life at conception radicals... at least they are intellectually honest in their views.
I am a Californian and I couldn’t disagree more with your position. Your statement that “Newsom is part of a metastasizing blood cancer called Democrat” is the language of fascism. To the contrary, Newsom is a human being, as are all Democrats. No one should be called less than human.
You people are the most vile personal name callers that God ever allowed to be born. Everyone that challenges your fascist, racist, misandrist and radical woke political party agenda is a racist, misogynist and fascist.
"Democrat" refers to a political party. It rules the state. Newsom is the head of state.
So, you think things are going well in Democrat-run California? Please explain.
Frank, I think you should pack your bags and get on the road to Miami. I’m sure you’ll be happier there than you appear to be in CA. Imagine hurricanes with hard to get insurance on your house, your health care costs, the water pollution at your doorstep. T’is the place to be…
Used to live in the Ft. Lauderdale area years ago. Great memories. I would love to move there again but for all the business I stupidly started in the state. Love the warm weather in Florida and oceans you can actually swim and play in instead of California's deadly rock infested ice waves that are only good to look at. Most of all I love the lower population of snooty, stuck up, nasty liberals that vote for authoritarian dingbats like themselves.
The fantastic advances in society brought to us by the working man and woman have allowed the untalented, incapable, low-capacity dingbats to get an education and find a way to make a living. Because they are lazy by design, many of them filter to the coastal high population areas where the weather is easier on them, and they have lots of services they rely on instead of having to get their hands dirty. Too many of them accumulate and the place starts to decline and they start to run out of other people's money.
But alas, I am stuck here for a few more years... putting up with mountains of unwashed homeless, crime and high taxes. The good news is that there are generally many good people in California outside of the urban lefty hives. Some have already fled to Florida, but there are many stuck like me so at least we can get together in the country with our large gas-using trucks to eat some BBQ and drink some good beer and whiskey.
The tenor and tone of your comment is banal existentialism proffered incessantly by so called self proclaimed leaders whose grievous refrain is resplendent with a level of disdain for their fellow citizens.
What lies beneath that un-American lack of altruistic patriotism is a selfish desire to create a dystopian societal nightmare where one's "king" psychosis reigns supreme.
Oh I smile all the time. I am known as one of the warmest and most caring member of my family and circle of friends. I just don't do what a lot of clear-thinking people do... laugh and criticize your cohort in private while acting like they think your ideas have merit. I am doing you a favor openly showing you that mirror so you can see your own absurdity.
Here is the difference between your tribe and mine. I want your tribe punished to learn that they need to stop trying to control the lives of others thus causing harm. I don't want that punishment to last forever, only long enough for the learning process to kick in. The goal is to get back to normal respectful difference of opinion. But today the vulnerable narcissists are out of fucking control. They want full, perpetual and permanent damage done to their opponents.
The actions of your "progressive" tribe subscribing to the Theory ideology that admits is is all about acquiring political power at any cost. Your tribe wants to force change and justifies the harm caused as righteous means to the end you subscribe to. You punch, kick and stab... and then retreat into an identity victim cocoon. I am all about equality. I treat you just as I would any equal... and that means I tell you when I think you are full of crap.
I just want the absurdity and harm to end. I absolutely support free speech, diversity of opinion, different ideas about politics and society. But the pandemic and other related events in the world over the last 20 years has demonstrated that the radicals, led by radical feminists and their low-T male grovelers, and the managerial ruling class, is out of control and needs to be neutered by real democracy.
Agree. That is why we need to defeat the managerial class corporatocracy and their cabal of administrative puppets led by Joe Biden. They are only supporting the radical left because they need constituents for the votes. Once people take back the power from them they will drop the radical left like a hot potato. They are already dropping the radical left because their polling shows that their alignment with the radical left is causing them to lose minority votes. And the raging female vote over Dodd is losing steam.
"May 2023 – GR Collections Beat March Estimates by $99.9 Million
General Revenue (GR) collections for May (largely reflecting activity in April) beat the estimate made in March by $99.9 million. This is the 33rd month in a row collections have exceeded estimates."
And this includes all the state spending for hurricane rebuilding.
"The Governor and the Florida Legislature deserve credit for spending the money that has been available in a largely responsible manner. They were able to make significant investments in infrastructure, the environment, education, and teachers, while enacting record tax cuts and maintaining exceptional levels of reserves."
So the surplus is down because the governor and legislature invested in assets to the state. Basically moving short-term current assets of cash to long-term non-current assets. Compared to Newscum and the California Democrat spending and waste, this is orders of magnitude more better.
Nice poem. Hope de santis doesn’t include himself as a man. He’s a punk.
you are too kind
I fear the very little man from Florida will be recycled and brought back for ‘28 ala Nixon The powerful monied interests know he is flaccid and will mold him into a “new fascist” dressed up to look normal.
Watch the roll of DNC, Liz Chaney, harris,RFK jr, Lincoln project, Romney all will play an outsized roll is saving democracy if it is to be saved.
“Role” not “roll”.
What roll do you you see for RFK Jr?
Spoiler hopefully more against Trump and then the woman who made Trump potus Green Party Putin ally Stein
May it be so.
He will be a walking bullhorn for the far right. That’s why he’s kissing white nationalist supremacy ass.
A small mention. Indigenous peoples may have lived in harmony with nature however people are people. It was hardly a harmonious kum bah ya of tribal peace. Slavery was not common but Alaskan tribes did “run slaves”. It’s a history among us most ignore.
Steve writes: "human beings lived in harmony with nature and the earth for 600 generations before the first Europeans arrived on the North American continent." What? Even if you count a generation as 100 years, and that is really much too long, 600 generations don't go back nearly far enough! The earliest-known remains of modern humans, found in Morocco, date to around 315,000 years ago, and human ancestors "lived in harmony with nature and the earth" more than a million years before that.
As for defining “harmony” we find a great of evidence that we humans have had a complicated relationship not only with each other, but a brutal unforgiving one with nature.
Picky picky picky!!!!!
Regarding Steve’s comments about slavery in this otherwise eloquent column, Steve is correct that slavery has long existed and was not a western invention.
However slavery in America was different in that the American South became what is called a “slave society”, in which the economy and all white institutions, social relationships and customs revolved around the desire and need to keep enslaved Black peoples enslaved and to stop them from rebelling or escaping to freedom.
Moreover, the American Revolution did not promise or promote an end to slavery. Instead, as many slaves escaped to the British forces and freedom, this was the era when brutal slave codes were established to prevent enslaved people from leaving their masters’ plantations, from gathering together, from learning to read and write, and from doing anything that might further their freedom. And as well, white militias were established to patrol the country in search of slaves attempting to escape or to rebel against slavery.
In fact, rather than “crushing slavery”, the “ideals of the American Revolution” were in many ways shaped and inspired by slave owning white Americans’ understanding of the horrors of slavery and thus of the immense value of human freedom. --- for white people only.
Puss n boots
The California indigenous peoples suffered the worst of the genocide of Manifest Destiny. John C. Fremont was responsible for three massacres of Native Americans, slaughtering hundreds. He is one of those Coming Americans, bringing death and destruction, ruled by greed and an innate hatred of Nature. There are no grizzly bears ( the state mammal) except on the state flag.
REBUTTAL TO STEVE SCHMIDT'S USE OF SAM WALTER FOSS
(from world citizen, Tracy Everitt)
Parallelling the wishes for kinds of Men he wants for founding California made by Mr. Foss, I will write this in response---
"Bring me men who despise empires and instead want social values that demand no one else's wealth and no one else's territory.
Bring me men who will love the native Indians and make friends with them. and forever be admiring of them, and respect all treaties made with them, unto eternity..
Bring me men have studied philosophy, studied the greatest theories of economics, and want nothing but to gain in wisdom.
Bring me men who have read the great literatures of all time, from all countries."
What Jimmy Breslin once said about Rudy Giuliani is equally applicable to Ron DeSantis: "He is a small man in search of a balcony." As exhibit "A" one need look no further than his elevator boots.
Beautiful poem
"It wasn’t so much the pettiness, which was spectacular, but the smallness of spirit towards the country, and specifically its largest state, evidenced by Ron DeSantis that stood out."
To what do we owe this sensitivity toward criticism of California and related spin to make criticism of Newsom and the cast of Democrat clowns running the state and its large cities into the sewer, a criticism of California? Newsom sucks. He has better hair and teeth, but less integrity, than does Adam Schiff and the leaders of the Lincoln Project.
"I do believe that California has more natural advantages than any state in the country, which is why when you have so many people leaving on net, that’s hard to do."
Yup. I have lived here for 45 years and this is the key. California is drop-dead gorgeous, as are other states, but it has the advantage of Mediterranean weather for most of its territory. Corrupt and talentless ruling-class politicians like Newsom simply leverage those assets to make his lying claim of high performance. It is incredible how much abuse the residents will tolerate for good weather. California is not Newsom, and Newsom is not California. Newsom is part of a metastasizing blood cancer called Democrat that is killing the state from within while the body, except for the scars of unmanaged forest wildfires, and trash, tents and feces lining the sidewalks, continues to be the most beautiful in the nation.
Just read that CA, after having a near $100 billion surplus is looking at a $60 billion deficit as tax receipts have crashed. This is from the state with the highest overall tax rates in the nation. Meanwhile Florida, a state with zero income tax, is sporting its highest budget surplus in history of $22 billion.
You would think that good establishment Republicans would celebrate that and give the nod to DeSantis. But maybe this isn't really a site of good establishment Republicans.
Would appreciate the source on this tax info. Thnx
Also curious as to just who these “good establishment” Republicans are…. What have they done about the cancer to democracy which is Trump? Where do they stand on women’s right to health care and fascist book bans?
Sure, but first let's clear up your tired and nasty political talking point rhetoric.
Trump is not the cancer, he is the cancer removal candidate. The cancer is the establishment managerial ruling class.
Women have copious rights to health care. That is really a stupid comment. The debate is over the fetus's right to life.
There are no fascist book bans. There are restrictions in what the feminist Theory fascists can put in books to harm children.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/07/budget-deficit-plague-california-years/
https://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/777
Cannot possibly continue discourse w someone who doesn’t understand the issues women are facing in their health care today. Bye.
Anyone know if it is possible to block someone in a Substack…
You mean I don't subscribe to your overheated politicized emotive hyperbole on the topic. Because I completely understand the real truth and facts related to women's heath care issues and the topic of abortion. I think I am just more intellectually honest about it, and that troubles you.
Trust me here, I am as disgusted with the life-at-conception people as I am the unrestricted abortion up to birth and maybe after people.
I don’t want to get into an argument with you, but NO ONE believes in “unrestricted abortion up to birth and maybe after.” Congratulations to you, a man, who knows more about being a woman than most women!
To the other 99.99% of people in The Warning community; Everyone knows the quickest way to smell like a skunk, right?
No amount of civil discourse is going to change the primate outlook of a MagaNut. One would have a better success teaching a chimp to fly.
LOL. Vulnerable narcissism on display. Aka a "crybully"
So, nobody but women (who cannot be defined by your political tribe) can comment on anything related to women. Got it. Interesting that you feel so free to denigrate "man" in your comments. I guess feminist misandrism is a hard habit to break.
Now back to the topic. What number of month in gestation should abortion be restricted to? If you are really not advocating abortion up to birth and maybe after, you should have some number of weeks in mind.
I doubt you do, because you support unrestricted abortion up to birth.
I will say this about the Handmaiden's Tale life at conception radicals... at least they are intellectually honest in their views.
Frank Lee, all your points are lies!!
I am a Californian and I couldn’t disagree more with your position. Your statement that “Newsom is part of a metastasizing blood cancer called Democrat” is the language of fascism. To the contrary, Newsom is a human being, as are all Democrats. No one should be called less than human.
You people are the most vile personal name callers that God ever allowed to be born. Everyone that challenges your fascist, racist, misandrist and radical woke political party agenda is a racist, misogynist and fascist.
"Democrat" refers to a political party. It rules the state. Newsom is the head of state.
So, you think things are going well in Democrat-run California? Please explain.
Frank, I think you should pack your bags and get on the road to Miami. I’m sure you’ll be happier there than you appear to be in CA. Imagine hurricanes with hard to get insurance on your house, your health care costs, the water pollution at your doorstep. T’is the place to be…
Used to live in the Ft. Lauderdale area years ago. Great memories. I would love to move there again but for all the business I stupidly started in the state. Love the warm weather in Florida and oceans you can actually swim and play in instead of California's deadly rock infested ice waves that are only good to look at. Most of all I love the lower population of snooty, stuck up, nasty liberals that vote for authoritarian dingbats like themselves.
The fantastic advances in society brought to us by the working man and woman have allowed the untalented, incapable, low-capacity dingbats to get an education and find a way to make a living. Because they are lazy by design, many of them filter to the coastal high population areas where the weather is easier on them, and they have lots of services they rely on instead of having to get their hands dirty. Too many of them accumulate and the place starts to decline and they start to run out of other people's money.
But alas, I am stuck here for a few more years... putting up with mountains of unwashed homeless, crime and high taxes. The good news is that there are generally many good people in California outside of the urban lefty hives. Some have already fled to Florida, but there are many stuck like me so at least we can get together in the country with our large gas-using trucks to eat some BBQ and drink some good beer and whiskey.
😂 😆 😝 well you’ve certainly passed the entrance exam, so I say just go and don’t forget to close the door on your way out.
The tenor and tone of your comment is banal existentialism proffered incessantly by so called self proclaimed leaders whose grievous refrain is resplendent with a level of disdain for their fellow citizens.
What lies beneath that un-American lack of altruistic patriotism is a selfish desire to create a dystopian societal nightmare where one's "king" psychosis reigns supreme.
Perhaps you should smile more.
Oh I smile all the time. I am known as one of the warmest and most caring member of my family and circle of friends. I just don't do what a lot of clear-thinking people do... laugh and criticize your cohort in private while acting like they think your ideas have merit. I am doing you a favor openly showing you that mirror so you can see your own absurdity.
Here is the difference between your tribe and mine. I want your tribe punished to learn that they need to stop trying to control the lives of others thus causing harm. I don't want that punishment to last forever, only long enough for the learning process to kick in. The goal is to get back to normal respectful difference of opinion. But today the vulnerable narcissists are out of fucking control. They want full, perpetual and permanent damage done to their opponents.
The actions of your "progressive" tribe subscribing to the Theory ideology that admits is is all about acquiring political power at any cost. Your tribe wants to force change and justifies the harm caused as righteous means to the end you subscribe to. You punch, kick and stab... and then retreat into an identity victim cocoon. I am all about equality. I treat you just as I would any equal... and that means I tell you when I think you are full of crap.
I just want the absurdity and harm to end. I absolutely support free speech, diversity of opinion, different ideas about politics and society. But the pandemic and other related events in the world over the last 20 years has demonstrated that the radicals, led by radical feminists and their low-T male grovelers, and the managerial ruling class, is out of control and needs to be neutered by real democracy.
Hmmmm. No matter how you parse it, omnipotence is not a virtue.
Agree. That is why we need to defeat the managerial class corporatocracy and their cabal of administrative puppets led by Joe Biden. They are only supporting the radical left because they need constituents for the votes. Once people take back the power from them they will drop the radical left like a hot potato. They are already dropping the radical left because their polling shows that their alignment with the radical left is causing them to lose minority votes. And the raging female vote over Dodd is losing steam.
Florida actually has $5.3 billion in unobligated General Revenue, down considerably from an estimated $17.7B. Surplus in FY2021/22 was $22.8B
Source: Florida Tax Watch
Not seeing that. Do you have any cites?
https://floridataxwatch.org/research/budget-hub
"May 2023 – GR Collections Beat March Estimates by $99.9 Million
General Revenue (GR) collections for May (largely reflecting activity in April) beat the estimate made in March by $99.9 million. This is the 33rd month in a row collections have exceeded estimates."
And this includes all the state spending for hurricane rebuilding.
https://floridataxwatch.org/Research/Full-Library/the-taxpayers-guide-to-floridas-fy2023-24-state-budget
Well...
"The Governor and the Florida Legislature deserve credit for spending the money that has been available in a largely responsible manner. They were able to make significant investments in infrastructure, the environment, education, and teachers, while enacting record tax cuts and maintaining exceptional levels of reserves."
So the surplus is down because the governor and legislature invested in assets to the state. Basically moving short-term current assets of cash to long-term non-current assets. Compared to Newscum and the California Democrat spending and waste, this is orders of magnitude more better.
I was about to thank you for a civil discussion between two people with differing viewpoints and without ad hominum attacks.
Silly me! LOL
What ad hominum attacks?
"Bring me men to match my mountains " is carved in the stone pediment at the entrance of the California state library building in Sacramento
Men in boots