Gascon and Newsom, together at last
There’s now a recall effort underway involving Los Angeles County’s DA George Gascon, for his loathsome bait and switch. He is a disaster for LA, but I don’t know if the effort will be successful
I’ve already written about Gascon at some length here.
[NOTE: I’m leaving to get my second COVID shot now. It should take a while, because I have to drive a half hour each way. I hope to post more later today or this evening.]
[NOTE II: The title of this post refers to the fact that Governor Newsom is also facing a recall drive.]
I’ll believe it when I see it. Recent history has shown that powerful Dems in blue states rarely suffer anyreal consequences for their malfeasance and incompetence. It’s far more likely that they’d be awared an Emmy or a Nobel Prize than ever have to face any sort of actual justice. It’s sad, but it’s the nature of things in the United States in 2021. There is no rule of law, only the powerful and the powerless.
Good luck to them. The Newsome recall campaign has 2 million signatures, where 1.5 million are required.
Did Gascon really “bait and switch” or were voters just not paying attention? While he did not put up billboards saying “Gonna release rapists on OR!” he probably was not running as a “law ‘n order” candidate either.
My wife had the second shot (Pfizer) last week and feel pretty flu-ish all the next day. Other people I know have not noticed any reaction beyond sore arm. Hope yours is like theirs, Neo.
And good luck on avoiding a nasty reaction to the shot. It seems random. Some have no side effects, and some feel pretty awful for about 24 hours.
To repeat a comment I made in another thread, I have heard that due to a weaker immune response one is less likely to have a reaction to the second shot if they are older, and male. Presumably actual XY chromosome. It may be too late for neo to “identify”.
Saturday March 27 I get my second Moderna shot. Good luck neo and if you have any side effects may they pass quickly. As regards Gruesome Newson and Soros Gascon – elections have consequences you foolish Californians.
FOAF, the worst second-shot reaction I’ve heard of among my acquaintances was a 71-year-old male who had chills and a fever of 102.2º.
A friend of mine, female in nature, in the night after getting injection number two, had such soreness in her injected arm that it woke her up. There was also a certain amount of fever and slight flu-ish feeling generally. But once again, the roughly 2-day duration held.
It’s remarkably consistent, you know, about this business of reacting to the second shot – probably the most consistently consistent COVID-related phenomenon I’ve heard of so far.
Philip S.,
Did your friend get the Pfizer or Moderna shot?
Very best wishes on the second covid shot, neo.
Both Ms. M J R and I got our second shots (Moderna) just this past Saturday.
Dear wife had flu-ish reactions on both day 2 and day 3, while I had no reaction at all on either/any day.
(So the reactions average out to one day, the second day — the expected experience!)
See ya later . . .
Did Gascon really “bait and switch” or were voters just not paying attention?
Feckless voters. Getting it good and hard. Ditto in Frisco.
My wife had the second shot (Pfizer) last week and feel pretty flu-ish all the next day.
In our house, the full monty after the 2d shot (Moderna). Sore arm, joint pain, muscle pain, slight headache, temperature 1.3 degrees above the usual, and chills. Been just 26 hours. Hope it recedes ‘ere long.
The most vulnerable group is of course the nursing home residents which is why I was surprised to see this stat. A case of nurses against science?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/55-per-cent-ontario-long-term-care-workers-vaccinated-fears-remain-1.5928220
55% of Ontario’s nursing home workers opted for vaccine
I got my second shot a couple of weeks ago — felt tired the next day, but no other after-effects. It hasn’t changed my life much. Masking rules are still in effect.
A friend of mine got both Pfizer shots. Slightly sore arm after the first. Sore arm after the second, and then, 12 days later, 72 hours of muscle aches, nerve pain, and other discomfort. I hope she was an outlier.
Gascon’s actions will absolutely result in more rapes and murders. Gascon is enabling the increase in rapes and murders.
If one of the victims relatives or friends held Gascon personally responsible, as I certainly would and a friend or relative of a murdered victim took the law into their own hands and rendered an eye for an eye… Which in my opinion would be simple justice and, I was called to serve upon the jury impaneled to decide upon Gascon’s killers fate… no way would I vote to convict on any charge.
When being examined by the prosecutor and defense attorney, I’d not reveal even a hint of my true intent.
Absent the rule of law, individual justice is all that remains.
TommyJay, I’m not sure. Have you seen any patterns that suggest there could be a difference? I suppose it’s possible, but I would think that if they both (well, now all three, adding the J&J one into the mix) work, the physical reaction to vaccination with any would be about the same.
Update: it was Moderna.
Wife and I got our second Pfizer last week. No problema. Found our DiL and our (young) family physician each felt crappy the next day.
How will Creepy Joe/Dr. Edith and the Ho stop Texas from opening 100% and going sans-face diaper? Will they need to declare a national expediency?
Our middle daughter got her second shot this weekend. Both shots led to side-effects and the second was stronger. After 24 hours she felt better.
I’m 70 and thus have been eligible for a while but I’m holding off. I’m not that worried about Covid. I mean, who knows? Maybe I already had it but it was an asymptomatic or low-symptom infection. If I get a shot, I’m leaning towards waiting for the J&J. Less effective but only one shot and fewer reactions. I’m also OK with not getting a vaccine. (Disclosure: I get the normal flu shot each year. I’m not particularly anti-vax)
When do we get another BeeGee thread LOL? My UTube feed keeps popping up song videos and interviews …
Hope the 2nd shot goes well Neo..
Sadly, one DiL’s dad had a heart attack after his first Covid shot.
He’s recovering well, and had a history of heart problems so it may not have “caused” the event, but that hasn’t increased my anticipation of the day when our insurance company will let us know it’s our turn.
Hope all goes well for Neo and anyone else in line for the jab.
Congratulations on the full vaccination, Neo, and good luck!
FOAF; Art Deco:
I recall that Gascon did indeed bait and switch, in that, prior to his election, he was rather general in his statements about what his policy would be. Voters certainly had to know he leaned towards the left side of things, but he never was specific about the extremity of the policies he instituted almost immediately after being elected. I did some research on that a while back, but can’t find the link at the moment.
On the mRNA vaccine: There are reports of spontaneous miscarriages in women who got the mRNA vaccines. Please tell your young family members.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/3-dozen-cases-of-spontaneous-miscarriages-stillbirths-occurring-after-covid-19-vaccination_3716385.html?utm_source=morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-03-03
There are reports of spontaneous miscarriages in women who got the mRNA vaccines.
About 20% of the pregnancies in this country end in miscarriages.
I can’t get really worked up about whether or not Newsom is recalled. California has plenty of other poisonous politicians to replace him. The state legislature is controlled by them so really what difference does it make. The state is so democrat that republicans havent been able to put a candidate on the ballot for US Senator for a long time. Think of the mayor and DA for San Francisco, another pair of winners. So in the end, I cant really care about Newsom or Gascon, there are simply many others waiting to take their place if they fall.
“…bait and switch…”
No doubt something of impeccable provenance, along the lines of “You can keep your ‘Law and Order’ if you want to”.
Democrats seem to be remarkably consistent about things like that….
Half-hour drives (one-way) are what I and my wife had. She has one more to go, next month.
Homeric, yes. It’s hard to see how it can really matter, especially when one considers all of the effort and resources that such a recall must soak up. Newsom is just one man, in the end, as you say. And yet, maybe folks hope or believe that rolling the dice might come out lucky.
It’s curious about recall elections… why have them, really? I mean, they don’t really seem to fit comfortably in our system of government. Is it just a buyer’s-remorse kind of motivation that enables the recall process to exist or produces the demand for it? I suddenly find myself thinking that if people get so exercised about a Gavin Newsom or a Gray Davis that they’re willing to sign a recall vote petition in such numbers, why have the original normal election in the first place? It almost seems like either a quasi-no confidence vote with The People as stand-in for a parliament, or an attempt to get a do-over on the standard periodic election that happened just previously. I’m a little at a loss to explain the recall concept to myself intellectually in any other way, now that I think about it for a moment. I suppose the Californian tendency toward direct-democracy referenda and such theoretically plays a role in this.
Kate:
Of course there will be miscarriages, deaths, etc. in a certain number of people who’ve had the vaccine. After all, people are subject to these things. The only thing that matters is whether the incidence is higher than it normally would be in a similar population.
We may be quibbling about semantics, neo, but my point is that Gascon never would have been elected in LA, nor Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, were there not already a large cohort of voters more interested in “justice” than law enforcement. It is exactly analogous to the “progressive” fools in Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland who are now seeing their once-pleasant cities being flushed down the toilet and are still having a hard time connecting it to the leftists they elected.
Should have said “social justice” instead of “justice” but I think everyone gets the point.