Category: Minority

Street vendors

Another bonehead move by Los Angeles mayor and pandering chief executive, Eric Garcetti, was to allow vendors to set up shop anywhere they find a slot on the street. I don’t want to cause them grief, but they cause me grief – and my livelyhood as a city bus operator is important too. All they need to do is advise their customers not park in the block the red zone.
The vendors and food trucks allow their customers to park in the bus stops, so we cannot safely service the stop. We can’t just let people get on and off in the street, but it’s either that or stop down the street and make them walk back or wait on them to run to us – which makes us run late and makes them miss their connections, and end up being late to their jobs.

     Bear in mind that many bus riders are on walkers, in wheelchairs, blind or just plain stupid. If anything happens to a customer entering or exiting the bus in an unauthorized location, its a lawsuit for you taxpayers to deal with and an incident on my driver’s record for me to deal with. I am personally Incentivized to pass up the stop and protect my own job.LAPD is on one and will not deal with it from a safety or parking violation perspective. 🤔

 

Just Under The Skin

In the heat of the moment, Joe Manchin revealed his true self. It’s not Biden’s “Build Back Better” that he objects to. His problem is simple. He wants to revert back to congressional earmarks, and extract some pork for his State’s coal mining industry. Build Back Better is a dagger in the heart to fossil fuel bitter clingers on many levels, which explains why Manchin’s nostrils flaired when he clapped back at Senator Bernie Sanders and called him a socialist (pinko).

I’m going to take a leap of faith, and guess that Kyrsten Sinema, is concerned that her constituency may want to repeal that silly MLK Holiday.

Newsom’s Folly

A mandate?
My grandmother was 1/2 native American. My wife’s mother is Indian. My daughters have blindly chosen black dolls, white dolls, male or female dolls, teddy bears, toy monkeys, toy helicopters and trucks.
All with no mandate. What does a gender neutral toy look like? Is there a button where the toxic male penis would be?

A toy is an impulse purchase. A kid wants what a kid wants because it’s “cute”, not because it was in a designated gender space on the rack.. This is simple pandering in the worst kind of way. Newsom thinks that he can peel off a few more votes, if the non binaries hear that he carved out a niche for them at the toy store. It makes Newsom (and the entire state) look petty and silly, and unless he’s running against Trump or Elder next time, I probably will not vote for him again.

“The soft bigotry of low expectations ”
~George W. Bush

The power of one

Dear Candidates:
There is no reason that you guys cannot create a leadership caucus NOW.
Decide among yourselves who should be the nominee and announce which cabinet level position each of you will be willing to serve under your chosen leader.
You’re spending your constituencies donations on your petty little ad buys and debate scrimmages, knowing that all donations but one group will be flushed down an empty hole. While the Resident is following your debates around, getting free ads from network media everytime he tweets another dumb idea that he dreams up. If you stop the primaries now and begin the National Election – he will be caught off guard while impeachment related questions continue to be answered and you prosecute the election in chief.

 

DACA

It’s simple.
DACA is a defacto TREATY. These people came out of the shadows and turned themselves in with an understanding that the U.S.A. would not break its promise.
Why should anybody trust us ever again. The world is watching and our word ain’t shit.
But this is no suprise. This is how he runs his business. He welches on deals, files bankruptcy, and filibusters court cases with delays.
The indigenous people called it “speak with forked tongue.”
I call it lying.