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Stick a Fork in California

Posted by Abaco 3 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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It's done. California is dead. I see on social media the dumbest people I know are passionately attacking people who express disappointment in the failure to recall the Gov. The place is a cesspool. They've taken one of the most beautiful places in the world and turned it into a collectivist, feces-polluted mess. Now, finally, my wife is talking of leaving. We have our place in Nevada which I love. But, we're really looking at Arizona, Florida and the Carolinas. Any input appreciated. I even said I'd consider the place where my dad's side came from - Oklahoma. It's a quiet place with a simpler life, and centrally located for my consulting work.

I'm going to have to clean up some real estate and sell it and I plan to have that done by next summer. The only relative with my last name who will remain in California is the guy who smokes tons of weed and doesn't work. That's fitting...


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  • Posted by Russpilot 3 years, 9 months ago
    Florida and Oklahoma are both good options with strong take no shit govenors. I have homes in both though I reside in Florida.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    First off Pat, “Q is fake” that’s an interesting remark to my comments about what Trump has set up. I said nothing about Q in this thread. Please give me evidence of your assertion.
    I have seen over a hundred Q proofs.
    Weird how Q and his anons are constantly attacked by the leftist media and the corrupt politicians over and over again all for a fake?
    The only thing attacked more than Q and the anons is President Donald J Trump .
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I respect you Dobrien......But Q is fake.
    It IS as bad as it appears.
    A=A.
    We need to put the hOpium down and view life as it is. Believe me I wish someone would come riding in on a pale horse and set everything right. But, Trump had a better chance of doing that as a sitting President. One of executive order stating that all Federal Elections must be in-person voting PERIOD. Would have solved this. He was sent to drain the swamp. But, fell in.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was a paradise. I lived there for years, back when Capitol Hill was a center for arts, museums and off-the-wall residents. Now, it's being held hostage by soulless thugs with no goal except destruction. Sometimes I think of Midas Mulligan saying "New York...New York..." and think to myself "Seattle...Seattle". The State of Washington should have been ours... we lost it because we were unprepared for the extent and total darkness of the madness.
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  • Posted by Lucky 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, Seattle! When there I had my first earthquake experience. There was no damage but the noise was like a truck hitting the building, not for a second but for 30 seconds.
    Seattle, where on my first winter there was snow on the morning of 25th December, I was impressed.
    I did not notice the stridency of the woky leftism for some years.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That’s the thing . I Don’t know who organized this , but I have my suspicions. False flags are coming and I would not set foot in DC. No thank you.
    I was lucky to be riding in the 3rd seat of a station wagon in 1963 going to see the monuments and climbing the steps in the Washington Obelisk . I remember screaming put me down to my dad as he lifted me to see out the structure at the top.
    Fear of heights still to this day.lol
    Any way the beautiful marble sculptures and statues were terrific. Also I just remembered a wax museum that was spooky as it gets.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I lived in the TriCities of Eastern WA for 30 years ... went there for work and the place grew on me... 300 days of sunlight a year, very little precipitation and if you water the soil, you can grow pert-near anything. I recently sold my place for a good price and relocated to Southern Arizona (home here cost a quarter of my sales price of the WA home). Eastern WA is being overrun with those disgusting Windmills. Additionally, a serious plan is in place to tear down four hydro dams on the Snake River to (a) "save the salmon" and (b) install 'green power' (think 80,000 acres of disgusting windmills). It's all part of a $35B plan on the table. Helicopter Money. We are being driven over the cliff with a Crack Up Boom economy. Failure by Design.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I visited Ouray once, in July 2018 for an ultra-running event. Ouray is a nice quiet town tucked deep into the mountains. Glad that you mentioned it -- I can visualize living there.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have some property NW of Rawlins, Wyoming. Quite a few "survivalists" living on their 10-40 acre parcels.
    The trouble is, Wyoming gets nearly nonstop wind and seven months of Winter...
    On the good side, those harsh Winters tend to keep out the weak.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My email contacts cut across the spectrum from far right to medium left, and most are beginning to wake up from being woke. They're discovering what most of us here have known for a long time, we've been targets. Fear of cancel culture is taking a back seat to fear of non-existence. If the Friday demonstration is turned into another January 6 debacle, it will set us back even further. I would love to know whose bright idea it was to hold a protest against a protest being called an insurrection.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Some how we need to have the media tell the truth. Many people are just waking up to this reality. I have seen that over the last year for sure.
    First time we have a leader fighting back.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Simple indeed. Shining a light on the muck and corruption hasn't done much except make evil all the bolder, suffering no consequences as of yet. The ones who have eyes to see will have to be very strong in their convictions, Nathan Hale style. But I don't plan on hanging.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We are at war and it’s as simple as good vs evil.
    Light vs Dark . Good has to prevail . Truth is the light that eliminates the darkness. Chris Miller and Kash Patel and Ezra Cohen Watnick. Will be heroes for the next two hundred years.
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  • Posted by Shrugging1947 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm with you. I can see light at the end of the tunnel, and I don't think it's a train, but it's still a little too far away to tell for sure. The indictment can be accessed from https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-... I think Durham is after the bigger fish in that cesspool and either already has more or expects to unearth it with this indictment. Lots of pre-laid plans in play. You can call me "Little Mary Sunshine", but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My folks have lived at Compass Lake for 25 + years .I own a property there as well. This part of Florida is like a jungle. It seems everything in nature that can kill you is there. That said , the people I have met are wonderful and you can’t survive the place very well if you ignore reality.
    I will add to Dino’s list killer bees 🐝
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Durham will put out a report after he is done indicting the criminals . That report will go to the Attorney General. Durham is a prosecutor his job is to indict the criminals. Which he just did. Durhsm indicts DNC/Clinton lawyer John Sussman.
    Sussmann ties directly into the DNC and Clinton Campaign. Ladies and gentleman it is open season for John Durham. This isn’t the end but just the start. When do birds sing?
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Many things occurred between Nov 3 and Jan 20Th that were head scratching. I think an explanation that makes total sense is as follows.
    Devolution... defined as
    the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
    This was redefined as a continuity of power plan by Trump during the start of the COVID scam.
    When President Trump declared emergencies on March 13 under both the Stafford Act and the National Emergencies Act, he boasted, “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about.”
    The president is right. Some of the most potent emergency powers at his disposal are likely ones we can’t know about, because they are not contained in any publicly available laws. Instead, they are set forth in classified documents known as “presidential emergency action documents.”
    These documents consist of draft proclamations, executive orders and proposals for legislation that can be quickly deployed to assert broad presidential authority in a range of worst-case scenarios. They are one of the government’s best-kept secrets. No presidential emergency action document has ever been released or even leaked. Let’s assume that Trump in an emergency action had a plan in place to decentralize the military and other key agencies in the event of a takeover attempt with help of foreign govts.
    The elections were stolen and they military caught them all doing it. Once the truth comes out that the [DS] cheated in the election the government will become incapacitated and the military will step in. The military will most likely be deployed around the country to control the rioting. The military will take control until a decision is made of who the president really is by following the constitution.
    A few things come to mind that make sense with devolution. Remember Gen. Michael Flynn’s Brother being named head of the Pacific that was a head scratcher. How about when the incoming admins goons were shunned at the pentagon? They sought info on current special ops and were shut down. The DIA seems separate from the rest of the ABC agencies. They did not report or turn over the Chineses top USA Spy Chiefs defector to any other compromised govt agency. Another is did Trump turn over the nuclear code. Plus BuyDem doesn’t seem to have full control of the military as evidenced by US military bombings of Iran’s military. In November ....President Donald Trump fired Pentagon chief Mark Esper on Monday afternoon, installing an unprecedented fourth acting defense secretary just 72 days before the expected start of the Biden administration.
    “I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be Acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately…” the president tweeted. “...Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service.”
    In Dec 2020 Miller improvised in a speech stopping and lavishing praise on Pence for his assistance in one oh the most complex military operations ever undertaken. What was that? Was it Devolution being started . Also Miller did some interesting chain of command moves. Then there is the enigma Ezra Cohen Watnick.
    When he was placed in some key positions the left screamed like crazy and then silence. He is and will be playing a crucial role.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 9 months ago
    Reading all the comments that are all doom and gloom is understandable.
    But I cannot live very well without some hope.
    My hope comes with the Devolution theory. I have said it countless times. Trump has not quit and he set up a plan to save our great nation. The next month or so will tell if I am full of it.
    It is an extensive piece of work but Patel patriot lays it out here https://patelpatriot.substack.com/
    It is in 9 series. I doubt any will read it but if you are looking for some optimism check it out.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Very gentle. Love the man to pieces, just finished reading AS to him, again.. His eyes aren't very good and I enjoy reading to him in the evenings when TV is at its worst.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, be gentle with him, then. Hailing from Seattle, as beautiful as it is, is enough of a handicap, hahahahah! (for nice conservative people like us!)
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  • Posted by katrinam41 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Loved living there, first in an rv at the waterfront, later in a cottage 1/2 mile from the beach.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 3 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You and I, and anyone who has lived in or near tornado alley know and understand those storms, but my poor hubby hails from a lifetime spent in Seattle, WA, where there is no weather. Seattle, the only city in the country with natural indirect lighting. Not true, but it kept the curious out for years :) Weather isn't something to fear, only to respect. Progressive non-minds are what bother me the most.
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  • Posted by shaifferg 3 years, 9 months ago
    Why not Colorado? It was Californicated in the late 70s on and has gone downhill ever since. Legislature and courts just gave the front range libertards voting overrides against rural counties. Foolish to expect improvement! Resident since late 60's stayed after discharge. A good 30 year ride, last 20 not so much.
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