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Pemulis_DMZ's avatar

What could be the downside to electing anyone besides Newsom? How could anyone do worse? I listened to Shellenberger's interview with Rogan. I'm what many on the left would now call a red-pilled right-wing conspiracy theorist (i.e. I don't mindlessly accept everything the mainstream media preaches about Covid and find myself increasingly disenchanted with the Dem party) and I found his interview refreshing. Finally, like it used to be all of ten years ago, here was a liberal politician who I disagreed with on many of his suggested policies but who I found I can respect and, if elected, find many areas of agreement with.

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Madjack's avatar

California has voted for him and overwhelmingly supported him in the recall. This is on them. No sympathy

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Scuba Cat's avatar

At the risk of sounding like another "right-wing conspiracy nut," I do question election integrity, particularly when oligarchs who are widely reviled seem to keep getting elected.

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Zeke's avatar

LMAO!! Sympathy? Life here is remarkably good. Yes we have issues. So do you.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Yes but as Celia pointed out Californians are moving and spreading their failed policies. And the southern border is wide open to persons ill-informed about legacy American values that are being located throughout the country.

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Skinny's avatar

You know the expression “you reap what you sow”Madjack!

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Sniper's avatar

Yup. They deserve the environmental issues, homeless, filth and crime and upcoming vax mandates that will maim their kids. No refunds.

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james p mc grenra's avatar

Sniper... they do have a very high pollution rate, gets overlooked when viewing the nice climate. i would guess, they have a short lifespan, might help.

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james p mc grenra's avatar

you missed the high pollution rate, take a deep breath, now again...

High pollution with a high life span, with busy Airports...and that High "Gullibillty" ...so much fun

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DC Reade's avatar

The air pollution problem in California is confined to a few urban areas. In particular, it has a lot to do with the geography of the LA basin, coupled with population increase.

It would be incomparably worse if California hadn't led the way with auto emissions standards, decades ago. Those pollution controls actually allowed many years of breathing room in urban California. But evidently the population influx has once again swamped out the benefits.

The unprecedented size of California forest fires in recent years has also contributed to a drastic decline in air quality in some months of the year, in large parts of the state. The largest fire burned 4.5 million acres, more than triple the historic annual norm.

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james p mc grenra's avatar

"breathing room" in much of Calif. is not and has not been good for a long long time. Do you live in Cali.?

Cali. does have a lot going for it, growing food, fossil fuels, and climate aside from the dessert and very little ran. So we have a water problem and roughly 8 out of 10 cities in the US, with the most pollution are in Cali.. San Joaquin valley along with L.A. are the most polluted ares in the world. These points are resting on others opinion, while i do have much experience on the concern.

Much like the Life Span concern, these are Not exact studies, they have "facts" put together with estimates on assumptions , interventions are used to settle figures.

Average Life Span has much to do with Black and Asian people, since they have close to 15 to 20 years difference in their lives, so depending on how many of each race live in an area, the life span average differs. Just trying to point out the numerous angles available for twisting figures. What we see is not always present. thanks.

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