How did the right get it so wrong? CA booming instead of dooming!

[blackangst1]

Hasnt CA always had one of the top economies in the world?

 

[Zorba]

In other news, the power grid in capitalist paradise Texas is fucking up again. This time because it's too hot. In Texas.

I'm sure Rafael will say it's the windmills' fault somehow.

ERCOT Calls On Texans To Conserve Power Amid High Summer Demand, Forced Outages

ERCOT said several power generators in the state are on forced outages for repairs, putting about 11,000 megawatts — about the amount of energy it takes to power 2.2 million homes on a summer day — out of commission.

www.kut.org

Sounds like Enron is fucking over TX this time

 

[Saylick]

Hasnt CA always had one of the top economies in the world?

If you can order each country's GDP, California by itself would be 5th, right after Germany and right before India.

Source: https://bulloakcapital.com/blog/if-california-were-a-country/

 

[Juiblex]

Look at the dummy who didn't read the article again. They are booming in comparison to places like Texas.

And we've been over this before you crazy idiot, California has GAINED rich people in recent years. California is losing the lower and middle class because it's too expensive to live there, it's gaining in the people who can afford it because it's one of the most desirable places to live on the planet.

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

 

[nakedfrog]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

That's probably because you constantly fill your mind with bullshit. It's not a zero sum game, we can have rich people and also take care of the poor, and strive to not have FUCKING GARGANTUAN income disparity.

 

[MrSquished]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

Who said we were against the rich? That's your own construct.

California can have good overall economic numbers but we progressives still want a higher living wage, universal health coverage, more affordable housing, etc...

This is just a counter to the narrative that California is a wasteland which is prostrated by your ilk.

Try to keep up

 

[ch33zw1z]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

Projection 101

 

[nickqt]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

Go watch more Hannity so you know what to think, your dogshit-tier talking points are laughable to anyone who isn't already braindamaged from letting right-wing scaremongers shit into their brains on a daily basis.

 

[fskimospy]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

No it doesn’t, you may be projecting.

My comment was refuting his claim that the rich were leaving California because that is factually wrong. I think the fact that the poor and middle class are being forced to leave California is terrible, which is why I support better housing policy.

 

[cytg111]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

So its either extreme capitalism or straight up socialism? If you go looking you will find some middle ground in there.

The American dream is dead… in the US at least…

Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?

In this wryly funny talk, sociologist Harald Eia explains what some countries are doing differently and argues that capitalism and welfare states can, in fact, co-exist in harmony.

www.ted.com

 

[Vic]

I thought you guys were against the rich. You know. Take care of the poor. Income disparity. I don't even know what you guys even have for values anymore. It changes on the news article and which team is writing it. That's scary.

And I thought "you guys" were for the rich, fuck the poor, and vast income disparity. Bootstraps and all that, right? And yet we're supposed to believe that you actually do care about the unemployed now that can use that statistic to bash the other side? Yeah, I don't think so.

 

[NWRMidnight]

The reality is no one cares because the topic of conversation is California detective dipshit lol.

Your whataboutism is entirely invalid to the conversation - but here you are going "b-b-b-but what about this unrelated thing?"

Face facts Sir Derpington, your liberal shitholes are queens of last place.

I am pretty sure if Texas has 10 Million more people to find jobs for, that it's unemployment would be different, so it's completely relivent, specially since unemployment numbers have zero relievency if you don't include all states, and have all information to compair it to. Showing just 3 of the states, means nothing, just like your bullshit argument.

Funny how it's the liberal states that tend to have the better economies in comparison to conservative states that rely on those liberal state's federal tax dollars to survive... Maybe if they had better economies they wouldn't need too?? But your are welcome to continue to walk around with your head up your ass. But maybe you can try a little harder to stop spreading your Bullshit? Yeah, I know, it's a pipe dream.


In short, your response is just bullshit that shows you know you are full of shit, so your only option is to throw yourself on the ground and respond with a tantrum. (Did you learn that from your boy Trump?)

 

[MadRat]

The notion that red or blue is doing well for the little guy is absurd. Being manipulated by partisanship has only weakened the country and justified corruption from both sides of the aisle. Our enemies thank them.

 

[fskimospy]

The notion that red or blue is doing well for the little guy is absurd. Being manipulated by partisanship has only weakened the country and justified corruption from both sides of the aisle. Our enemies thank them.

If you think both sides are the same you are part of the problem.

 

[Moonbeam]

The notion that red or blue is doing well for the little guy is absurd. Being manipulated by partisanship has only weakened the country and justified corruption from both sides of the aisle. Our enemies thank them.

Our enemies put that both sides bullshit in your head and voila you imagine you are actually thinking creatively for yourself. There are two parities. One is partizan for its tribe and the other partisan for the welfare of democracy. One kind of partisanship does not equal another.

 

[MadRat]

I'm utterly amazed some of the posters in the Politics and News forum actually believe the crazy partisanship being spewed around here.

Just so I'm clear, its rare I can ever see eye to eye with Moonbeam. If there is one guy around here I've probably never seen eye to eye with, it is him. Today is one of those days that reinforces that sentiment.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I'm utterly amazed some of the posters in the Politics and News forum actually believe the crazy partisanship being spewed around here.

Just so I'm clear, its rare I can ever see eye to eye with Moonbeam. If there is one guy around here I've probably never seen eye to eye with, it is him. Today is one of those days that reinforces that sentiment.

Uhhh.... his statement directly contradicted yours.... So.... how exactly are you seeing eye to eye with him? lol.

 

[Moonbeam]

Uhhh.... his statement directly contradicted yours.... So.... how exactly are you seeing eye to eye with him? lol.

I thought he just said that I'm one person he never agrees with because I am always right and he never is.

 

[Moonbeam]

I'm utterly amazed some of the posters in the Politics and News forum actually believe the crazy partisanship being spewed around here.

Just so I'm clear, its rare I can ever see eye to eye with Moonbeam. If there is one guy around here I've probably never seen eye to eye with, it is him. Today is one of those days that reinforces that sentiment.

You are not alone. Look at this scientific study of both sides that is infected by both sides itself:

Political polarization may be driven by uncertainty intolerance on both sides of aisle

The brain activity of self-described political partisans suggests that a general intolerance of lifes uncertainties among both conservatives and liberals could give rise to us-versus-them mentalities, researchers have found.

academictimes.com

Here we see it is the fear of uncertainty that creates the need for it on both sides and not even for a moment is any consideration given to who may actually be right. They have bought in completely to the notion that is compromise and not polarization that is to be desired, that both sides have their own equally valid kind of right.

What this nonsense actually amounts to is a statement something like this: The Nazis and the Jews should have worked together to create a better Aryan state. You can be very smart and still be an imbecile.

As I said, conservatives fear that liberals are evil and will gas them if they can, whereas liberals fear conservatives because they don't like the uncertainty of life where any moment you may be gassed.

There are, in shout, paranoid delusions of monsters out there under your bed, and the real ones who act out their demented paranoid beliefs.

There is a simple test for this. If you are correct than I would not be able to drown you if I tie you up in chains and threw you in a lake.

 

[MadRat]

Uhhh.... his statement directly contradicted yours.... So.... how exactly are you seeing eye to eye with him? lol.

Better reread the post because it said the opposite. Moonbeam is an antagonist here since day one.

 

[zinfamous]

Uhhh.... his statement directly contradicted yours.... So.... how exactly are you seeing eye to eye with him? lol.

you should go back and read his comment a bit more carefully. ....but wholly misunderstanding pretty clear words and taking the exact opposite message from them would be you playing to type; so I guess you aren't going to bother "doing the work, that is necessary to stop perpetuating your status of illiterate dumbfuck around here.

 

[Timorous]

$1.5M of revenue per employee per quarter at the listed companies? So $500k / mo. What do the employees actually see of that? 1%/2% if they are lucky? This seems exploitative if employees can generate that sort of revenue but only see low digit %'s outside of a few outliers.

 

[Greenman]

Hasnt CA always had one of the top economies in the world?

It has for a long time. Buckets of money are made in CA, but you need buckets of money to live here. Housing has always been very expensive, over the last year or two it's entered the realm of insanity. My house has gained over 150k in value over the last year.
Yesterday I saw gas at $4.79 a gallon in one of the nicer areas.

 

[K1052]

It has for a long time. Buckets of money are made in CA, but you need buckets of money to live here. Housing has always been very expensive, over the last year or two it's entered the realm of insanity. My house has gained over 150k in value over the last year.
Yesterday I saw gas at $4.79 a gallon in one of the nicer areas.

Things that happen when you encourage massive employment growth and don't plan basically at all for the humans who will work those jobs to have somewhere to live.

 

[fskimospy]

Things that happen when you encourage massive employment growth and don't plan basically at all for the humans who will work those jobs to have somewhere to live.

Worse than that, you actively ban the construction of places for them to live.

It’s funny to me how people in California constantly complain about how expensive it is to live there but don’t spend any time considering if their favored policies contribute to that.