From Francesco on X, after the Los Angeles fires. A tip o' the hat to the anonymous reader who sent me the link.
Look at me. I’m a Malibu Liberal.
I believe in climate justice. Can you believe I actually said those words?! I’ve posted those words. I’ve whispered them into quartz. I ate kelp-based protein and offset my flights to Tulum through an app made by annoying Stanford kids. I composted at scale. I did all of the things.
Our home was solar-powered, LEED-certified, AND tastefully non-invasive—except for the footprint, which was enormous. But it was *intentional*. And even though it cost a fortune, I STILL did all of the things. We marched. We meditated. I once cried over a Greta Thunberg speech in my Range Rover outside Nobu. But nature doesn’t care about ANY of that. It just burns—helped along, of course, by decades of political incompetence.
And when it burned, the city sent not one, not two, but THREE lesbian fire chiefs with not a single hose between them. Look, DEI is important, I get that. But not when the hillside’s ON FIRE. The mayor showed up three days later from Africa, only to take a selfie and mispronounce “Malibu.” And I’m all for representation, but that [REDACTED].
We lost EVERYTHING! And when we tried to rebuild, we met the final boss: Democrat bureaucracy. Six months for a soil report. A year for coastal variances. Our rebuild “disrespected the ridgeline.” Whatever that means. I met with the Architectural Review Board while on mushrooms and I still don’t know if that meeting was real.
Our contractor was approved, then unapproved, then deported. We got a violation for sandbagging our own driveway. We’ve spent $120,000 just to *not* live in our house. I asked a councilwoman for help. She sent me back a workbook titled ‘Rethinking Home’ and a notice from the county asking us not to disturb owl mating zones while our lives are literally ash.
So **** it.
**** the permits.
**** the endangered sand beetle.
**** the Architectural Review Board.
**** the Democrats.
Where is my MAGA hat.
One can only sympathize, and suggest Francesco moves to someplace that treats him like a human being! Of course, he'd have to leave his liberal California values behind, or he might get rather short shrift in his new location . . .
Peter
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Ah! The come to Jesus meeting, where your made up BS thinking meets The Original Truth. I'm sure it was painful but soul cleansing. All the liberals want all the rules until THEY have to abide by them. Welcome to the human race, Francesco.
Ouch!
I can't comment any more than this as I believe if I were honest my comment might be illegal.
No. He voted for it, so he can sit his fat @$$ right there and enjoy it. He can try voting the other way, if he thinks it will do any good.
He'll never - *never* - be anywhere close to any kind of "conservative." So he can just sit right there in California and rot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRiVMb_uD5g
Franny baby, stay right there and marinate in your own juices. We don't want yout toxic Leftness in our communities. You voted for what you've got, live with it. Sucks to be you and all that.
There's a famous old saying that goes, "he who is 20 and not liberal has no heart. He who is 40 and not conservative has no brain."
I'll be a bit more gracious than Anon 1148 and say he might have turned the corner and is on the path to adulthood. He needs to do some reading on just how bad the climate "science" really is. It makes the Covid insanity look good.
had two uncles that lived out there for years.
1930 to the 1980's. then sold it all and moved back to eastern Ky. HOME. I asked one of them about living out there and why did he move back.
he said it was great, long growing season.
fruit trees in the yard and mild weather.
but in the early 1980's it started to get weird.
more taxes on everything. sold his small farm for big bucks and came back home to live like he wanted too. as he said back then, the fruits and nuts are going to run it right into the ground with their stupid ideas. 1991 or so. turns out he was right after all.
but hey, I thought it was a nice place to live back in 1979. little did I know.
The Conversion Point of a Liberal turning Conservative often is a violent, wrenching moment. Having one's privileged thought-patterns destroyed from within is like going completely cold-turkey from drugs or a life-long alcohol problem.
Liberalism is like any self-destructive addiction. The only way to change the person is for the person to change. You can't force them. You can only wait for them to reach rock-bottom and change themselves.
I used to be a liberal, raised by my liberal parents. Oh, there were moments, like watching Jimmy "The Dhimmi" Carter botch everything he touched, but the defining moment and the breaking moment was working my arse off and getting my first paycheck and seeing exactly how much went to not-my-pocket even after my employer paid his portion.
This person is just learning it but is too stupid that nothing will really change. This person is saying I have changed but in reality they will sell out and find another place they can live in. Nothing will change but location, less money, but they will vote for the same type of people and values.
Funny thing, too - wasn't there a time when "liberal" meant you *didn't* want all the rules...
This
Residents of other states should, whenever seeing Calif lic plates, socialist bumper stickers and the like, start potatos up the tailpipes and the like. With a kind note of explanation, because we're not barbarians.
For some time now I have opined that a conservative in CA is a liberal in the free states. This because they've been inculcated to CA culture.
Therefore, when moving out of CA, keep yer trap shut and ears open for at least the first full year. That's for the conservative's conservative. Most should plan on no less that five years of doing nothing but watching and listening.
Wait till he runs into CA housing laws and finds they need to build low income housing.
California is a foreign country. If residents want to immigrate, they should go through the same process as other immigrants (My spouse in a naturalized citizen; it's not a fun process - it makes driver license renewal look easy). And implement a small cap on available openings.
You know how the democrats are now keying every tesla they find and hating on Musk and burning out the tesla chargers in the open? They also supported importing and keeping 100% of the illegals who probably set all those fires that burned down Malibu and all the other nice parts of California that went up in smoke in the last 30 years. And now they want to MAGA.
You know who didn't burn anything down? MAGA.
You know what happens when the liberals from Malibu pseudo-join MAGA?
They'll start burning down all the same old stuff they hate and start blaming Republicans and demand the FBI throw every rethuglican into jail. Guaranteed.
They got what they voted for. I DO NOT want them here...
Ask them, are you a refugee or a missionary?
Times, they are a changin'
Your employer's portion of your taxes? That's your portion too, you earned it. Your employer did not make a "contribution" despite the law requiring your employer to not use the word "tax" and not show it on your pay stub.
Like I told you at the time, the rest of Califrutopia cares Jack and S**t about these libtards, and will miss their departure forever like trees miss the cold in spring.
Wait until their demographic shift flips Malibu and Pacific Palisades to conservative parity, putting whole districts back in play, because of the departure of all the woketards, and despite decades of gerrymandering by the democommunists in Sacramento.
It's not funny until it's not funny.
And when the penny drops, see how many copycat brushfires start happening in leftist bastions.
I t may transpire that "burn them out" isn't just an archaic theoretical concept all of a sudden.
That's only true for the come-to-Jesus kind.
The actual conservatives in this state are far to the right of Atilla The Hun. But none of them are johnny-come-latelies, and they've been the underground in occupied territory for 40 years now. Most of them could teach the wishy-washy conservatives in 49 other states a thing or two. The last candidate we pulled off here was Ronald Reagan. Now tell me about how we ended up with Bob Dole, Dubbya, Mittens, and John McCrazy for the rest of the so-called red staters. The rot isn't here; it's that the weaker sisters moved out, and your toothless, banjo-playing liberal kinfolk swarmed in. Demographics is destiny.
Dear Francesco:
You seem to have left out significant other facts. All the while you were doing those things in your own neighborhood and life, you were also fanning the flames of national retardation. You were voting for positions that drove your state into financial oblivion, sending hot coals down onto those who could only dream of your apparent wealth. You were pushing issues that severely tested the fortitude of this entire country, a recovery from which we may spend years of our lives trying to endure. You were a candy-assed, self-indulgent, student of education too lazy to actually think. You now seek empathy, sympathy, or both. Screw you, Francesco.
Good point. I really dislike or ca lesbo neighbors. They turned us in for dumping sewage into the lake when there was an algae bloom because we installed French drains for the yard water. They don’t pull over on our one lane road. They claimed it was a hate crime when the storms broke loose thier jet ski an nobody called them. I am also done with walking on egg shells for these people. Are not nice. Tom
CNN had Bill Nye The [former children] Science Guy on after DOGE let go [a paltry] 800 NOAA [non]workers asserting hurricanes have increased in the past 50 years and it’ll [somehow magically] get worse now. A guy took the actual 50 year data (vs ‘blather-ssertion’)…and…lo-n-behold, zero increase, and in fact very much the same slight ups and downs over that period.
These people are nothing but self-serving purveyors of the lie…always been around, just didn’t have a direct to consumer talker platform to operate their baloney. At least in the olden days when the snakeoil salesman came around you could hide in the barn until he went away.
So was Aspen…until the elites decided it was “the special spot” for them. John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High speaks to this in part…ruined for anyone “not them”.
F that guy, his horse and his ilk.
He hasn't learned a thing - he's angry because he can't have his toys back just because he wants them. That mess he's surrounded by is his. He made that mess, vote by vote. Fix your political and social landscape, pal, and then we can talk about what conservatives think.
Welcome to the real world. He will never be allowed to rebuild his home.
Never stay in a place where they don't recognize your value! Be it physically in a house, or philosophically in a party that doesn't care about you. If you don't plan your own future, somebody else will do it for you. Didn't work out well this time did it?
While I agree with the thoughts, this sounds like a BS article to me. Waaaay too convenient that a hard core leftist would ever, ever become MAGA.
"Look, DEI is important, I get that."
Tell me you haven't learned anything without telling me you haven't learned anything.
Best comment so far...
As if you voted for a different candidate. Who did you vote for Admiral?
None of those douchecanoes.
When I need to use both hands to hold my nose, I can't seem to find a third hand to pull the lever for those wastes of skin and oxygen.
But until recently, the nomination was sewn up by their ilk long before Califrutopia even had its primary.
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