Reupping this: I'd love to see CA aggressively take on the GOP effort to claim that Californians are un-persons. Given the talent in CA, it SHOULD be easy to make this politically unpalatable. - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Reupping this: I'd love to see CA aggressively take on the GOP effort to claim that Californians are un-persons.

Given the talent in CA, it SHOULD be easy to make this politically unpalatable.

Reposted from emptywheel

I would love to see someone who is OF LA, but safe from the fires do a video like this:

Tourist video of Pacific Palisades w/famous houses
Video of fires now
Video of FEMA serving W NC
Joe Biden saying he'd help everyone
Trump throwing paper towels

"Trump says this is not the US he'll protect"

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awakeneddragon.bsky.social•44 days ago

By what right do the incompetent red state politicians get to dictate what the successful blue states receive, especially when the blue states are the money providers?

graciesbiatch.bsky.social•43 days ago

Which is why it’s time that California self fund and stop paying federal dollars! Red state can pull themselves up by the bootstraps next time they have a natural disaster. Since they hate us so much and don’t need us they should all just be fine.

lp7.bsky.social•44 days ago

Add in the Billions that CA every year puts into the federal gov to subsidize red states. Billions. Every. Year.

mbowen.bsky.social•44 days ago

I’m in CA and love this idea.

yvonnedyrda.bsky.social•44 days ago

I’m in the Bay Area and I agree!

johnnynovio.bsky.social•43 days ago

No one in CA is hunting FEMA workers like they were doing in NC.

ljclark.bsky.social•44 days ago

It would be interesting if China backed off their tariffs on U.S. almonds, which are about 99% (+/- 1%) from California. (Australian almonds have no tariff.)

nootka.bsky.social•43 days ago

The broader aim, seems to me, is to exploit this crisis as a gift for further damaging public confidence in the ability of government to provide essential services. With the bonus of damaging Gov Newsom's reputation since he's considered a threat to Republican aspirations for hegemony.

foreverbluelady.bsky.social•44 days ago

Me too! I am close to the fires. Breaks my heart that fealty to the incoming admin and/or purposeful ignorance regarding Calif terrain and politics has —> such vitriol

chrisgustafson.bsky.social•44 days ago

You are so correct, and I've been screaming the same thing just at a monitor.

Why isn't every single D howling about this at the top of their lungs and loudly wondering what will happen when Florida is hit on 2025 or 2206 which is going to happen?

kelly363.bsky.social•44 days ago

Musk clearly violated the Logan Act - there is a reason the Logan Act exists - the threat of private individuals to undermine the foreign policy and actions of acting President is a criminal violation under the Logan Act

thereitgoes.bsky.social•43 days ago

Hubble discovered galaxies and the expanding universe on top of the mountain that was on fire in the Eaton fire (Mount Wilson though your Rose Parade posts make me think you know the name).

There is so much history here, even where the fires took place specifically.

thereitgoes.bsky.social•43 days ago

We don't think of the location as something like the leaning tower of Pisa but it is.

thereitgoes.bsky.social•43 days ago

There is so so so much history right there. So much more than the Hollywood history people expect.

Plenty of famous right wingers live where the fires were or near them too.

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