Comments on: Gascon and Newsom, together at last

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 01:38:32 +0000

Should have said “social justice” instead of “justice” but I think everyone gets the point.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 01:31:27 +0000

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.

By: neo

neo — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:45:31 +0000

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.

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:31:28 +0000

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.

By: Sam L.

Sam L. — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:23:27 +0000

Half-hour drives (one-way) are what I and my wife had. She has one more to go, next month.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:04:17 +0000

“…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….

By: Homeric

Homeric — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:55:52 +0000

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.

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:53:52 +0000

There are reports of spontaneous miscarriages in women who got the mRNA vaccines.

About 20% of the pregnancies in this country end in miscarriages.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:31:32 +0000

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

By: neo

neo — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:05:08 +0000

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.