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  1. 17 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    States under Dem control are preferable in that they're not totalitarian dystopias, but they're not exactly well run. E.g., California and New York Dems are actively sabotaging their own political power because they're such fucking NIMBYs they don't want anyone new moving into their neighborhoods. 

    You'll get no pushback from me there. I've got lots of problems with the Democratic party and its coupling with big business and NIMBYs. That said, below is a non-exhaustive list of bills passed by the CA legislature in the recent past. I know some of the descriptions are vague, but each is its own bill. If you only read this board, you'd honestly think the Dems are only good at singing kumbaya and crying about Trump. The problem, as I see it, is that the Dems here are trying to shoehorn social-democratic policies into a economic and political framework that is anathema to those principles. Round peg in a square whole, and what not. 

    Increase pay for health care workers

    Clear the way for more housing

    Make involuntary treatment easier

    Ease college transfers, for some

    Increase stipend to diversify juries (Newsome did not sign)

    Sort out water rights

    Strengthen renters’ rights

    Reduce retaliation against workers

     Ban caste discrimination (Newsome did not sign)

    Ban toxic chemicals in food

     Decriminalize psychedelic drugs (Newsome did not sign)

    Let legislative staff unionize

    Boost clean energy

    Add paid sick days

    Limit hand vote counts in elections

     Give jobless benefits to striking workers (Newsome did not sign)

    Give raises to fast food workers

    Strengthen abortion access

    Tax guns and ammo

    Revise concealed-carry laws

    Ban book bans

    Increase penalties for child trafficking

     Consider gender identity in custody cases (Newsome did not sign)

    Support LGBTQ students

    Regulate driverless trucks (Newsome did not sign)

    Stop legacy admissions at private colleges

    Ban book bans in public libraries

    Stop local voter ID requirements

    Require state prisons to provide menstrual products

    Make undocumented immigrants eligible for homebuyer and jobless aid (Newsome did not sign) 

    Allow tribes to sue cardrooms

    Restrict private equity in healthcare (Newsome did not sign)

    Regulate middlemen in pharma industry (Newsome did not sign)

    Protect maternity wards from closures

    Allow more outdoor alcohol and cannabis sales

    Expedite gender-affirming care licenses (Newsome did not sign)

    Shine a light on teen treatment

    Advance reparations proposals

    Give doxxing victims the right to sue

    Exclude medical debt from credit reports

    Give tenants more time to respond before eviction

    Let undocumented students work on campus (Newsome did not sign)

    Ban more plastic bags

    Make key changes in campaign laws

    End single-family zoning, redux

    Speed up ‘tiny homes’ for homeless people

    Protect voters from AI

    Boosting paid family leave

    Limit enforcement of jaywalking

    Disciplinary action for COVID disinformation 

    Introducing rap lyrics at trial 

    Fewer remedial courses at community colleges

    Protecting transgender youth

    Clearing criminal records

    Cell fee to fund 988 crisis hotline

     Water bill help for low-income Californians (Newsome did not sign)

    Easier farmworker unionization

    Build housing on strip malls: Two ways

    Student housing versus CEQA

    Abortion: Protection from prosecution

    Funding abortion access

    Abortion digital privacy

    'Pink tax:' Gender-based price discrimination

    Nursing home licensing reform

    Burial option: Human composting 

    Tackling greenhouse gases

    Keeping Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open

    Setbacks for oil and gas wells

    Interim goals for 100% clean energy 

    Strategies for carbon removal and capture

    Kids’ privacy online

    Courts compelling mentally ill people into treatment

    Regulating fast food workers’ wages

    3 hours ago, Goofyboy said:


    Democrats on the federal level vs state. But, hey - keep that energy.

    The implicit point of my post, which I'll now break down for you, was that the Dems ARE effective at passing legislation and furthering the interests of the common man and securing individual rights. The argument that the party doesn't know how to effectively message or govern operates under the assumption that the messaging from the Democratic party is very effective on a state and local level, but somehow fails when you try to stretch it over arbitrarily drawn state borders. Is that a problem with the party? When they amplify the dangers of Trumpism non-stop on the news, Instagram, Facebook, tik-tok? When they have 3 straight prime-time slots on every TV channel in America breaking down what MAGA and P2025 will do, and laying out specific legislation they will advance to help the working and middle class? At some point you have to just accept that many Americans will never, ever pull the blue lever even when they are actively suffering at the hands of the party they put in power.

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  2. Lots of talk about how ineffective Dems are. Which I guess explains why so many of you are desperate to flee Texas to a state under Dem control.

    Same, same. Right?

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  3. 3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Sure it will, and well-deserved.  But as far as Ds starting up messaging for midterms and later, they're probably going to have a goldmine of shit to attack.

    Will anyone care? In a sane world, J6, P2025, etc., would have sunk any candidate and turned off the vast majority of voters. He got MORE votes after all of that.

    Trump could start WWIII and all he'll need to do is run some ads in October about the LGTBQ cabal and the American people will fall in line.

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  4. 14 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    I finally have an appointment wit( our field adjuster tomorrow.  Word is the California Fair Plan is trying to deny smoke “cleaning” remediation vs smoke damage.  I read and negotiate contracts (commercial real estate) almost every day for the last 30 years.  I see nothing in the language delineating any difference between the 2.  If I get any pushback, I’m going to litigate even if it costs me more than the remediation.  Fuck all that.  I’m pissed off enough that it motivates me.  I don’t get angry (well I do inside), but it makes me want to get very serious.  And I have some very well placed friends in the legal field who will take this on for me pro bono.  Fuck insurance companies who don’t own up to their obligations.  I get that this is almost unprecedented, but too fucking bad.

    Sorry to hear that. We have Farmer's. Surprisingly easy with them. We had already paid a company about 4k to clean the whole house, and Farmer's cut us a check for 19k

  5. 3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I'm not sure "we should deport people who don't vote the way I want" is a good way to separate ourselves from the GQP.

    And ensuring that Donald Trump was elected to visit untold harm upon the poor, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ, unions, and the disabled is?

    Because that's what I hear when I hear people say they can't vote for the Dems. Fuck all of those people.

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  6. Just now, Js1 said:

    Steve Bannon Bingo GIF

    No, no, no. You need to think of the national debt like a household with outstanding credit card balances. A SWF is the same as a household, uh, taking out a loan. Wait, that can't be right. Its actually kinda like a household finding a way to put more money aside so that in the future . . . actually this doesn't sound right at all.

    Maybe thinking of the national debt as similar to an outstanding balance on a CC was a stupid fucking analogy after all. 

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  7. On 2/3/2025 at 5:28 AM, Herbie Hancock said:

    I declare fatwa on the next fucking stooge that quotes that idiot. I’ve had him on ignore for years for a fucking reason.

    nah, he's the best source of unintentional humor we have. 

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