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California saying goodbye to entertainment, manufacturing, and energy jobs.

California saying goodbye to entertainment, manufacturing, and energy jobs.

Granted some have been in a spiral downfall for almost a decade but until now no one’s looked at the approximate numbers. How’s 250-350,000 job loss sound? And that’s the direct number. This doesn’t count the side jobs these industries provide.

These aren’t cyclical losses — they’re structural. They reflect long‑term policy choices that make it harder to film, build, or produce energy in the state. Compared to Ohio.

California vs. Ohio Job Trend Comparison Table

CategoryCaliforniaOhio
EntertainmentSignificant job losses due to production flight; shrinking “Information” sectorSmall sector; stable employment; film incentives attracting modest growth
ManufacturingLong‑term decline; high energy and regulatory costs push firms outGrowth in autos, EV supply chain, steel, polymers, and advanced manufacturing
EnergySharp decline; refinery closures; drilling restrictions; shrinking oil & gas workforceGrowth in natural gas, petrochemicals, and grid‑related construction
Overall TrendNet job loss in key tradable sectorsNet job gain in industrial and energy sectors
Business ClimateHigh costs, heavy regulation, slow permittingModerate costs, predictable permitting, strong logistics network
 

Nuff Said.

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Biden Biden Cartel Biden Pandemic Blue or red states. Censorship COVID Government Overreach Links from other news sources.

Without any bias tell me what went wrong with Bidens COVID policies.

Without any bias tell me what went wrong with Bidens COVID policies.

I asked the above question of CoPilot. The Microsoft leftist AI. It’s response. Nothing was edited. You make the call.

  • Overpromising on vaccines and “back to normal”
    • Shifting message: Early framing implied vaccines would largely stop infection and transmission, then reality (Delta, Omicron) forced a pivot to “prevents severe disease.” That shift damaged trust.
    • Polarizing rhetoric: Phrases like “pandemic of the unvaccinated” were seen as stigmatizing and politically divisive, making later persuasion harder.
    • Underplaying uncertainty: Communication often sounded more certain than the underlying science, so reversals (on boosters, masks, etc.) felt like incompetence or dishonesty.
  • School reopening and learning loss
    • Slow, cautious reopening in many blue districts: Biden campaigned on reopening schools, but CDC guidance was widely viewed as overly influenced by teachers’ unions and risk‑averse, leading to prolonged closures in many places.
    • Uneven national picture: Some states were fully open while others stayed remote or hybrid far longer, contributing to large learning losses and mental‑health impacts, especially for lower‑income kids.
    • No clear national line in the sand: The administration never drew a firm, simple standard like “schools stay open except in extreme circumstances,” so local officials defaulted to caution and conflict.
  • Testing and surveillance failures
    • Winter 2021–22 test shortage: The administration was slow to anticipate the Omicron wave’s demand for rapid tests; shelves were empty just as cases exploded.
    • Regulatory drag: FDA and other agencies were criticized for slow approval and scaling of rapid tests, leaving the U.S. behind some peer countries.
    • Fragmented data: Case, hospitalization, and wastewater data remained patchy and inconsistent across states, limiting clear national situational awareness.
  • Mandates and legal overreach
    • OSHA vaccine‑or‑test rule: The broad workplace mandate was struck down by the Supreme Court, showing the administration had stretched legal authority too far.
    • Federal contractor and healthcare mandates: These survived in narrower form but triggered workforce losses in some sectors and hardened political opposition.
    • Backlash vs. benefit: Mandates likely increased vaccination in some groups, but they also deepened polarization, fed conspiracy narratives, and made later public‑health messaging less credible to skeptics.
  • Inconsistent and confusing rules
    • Masks on planes vs. elsewhere: Mask mandates persisted on airplanes and in airports long after many other settings dropped them, creating a sense of arbitrary rules rather than risk‑based policy.
    • Travel and border policies: International testing and entry rules lagged behind changing risk, and were often confusing and poorly explained.
    • Changing CDC guidance: Quarantine and isolation rules were revised multiple times; even when scientifically justified, the communication was muddled and widely mocked.
  • Underinvestment in non‑pharmaceutical tools
    • Ventilation and filtration: The administration talked about ventilation but never made it as central or as visible as vaccines and masks—no simple, national “clean air” standard or branding.
    • High‑quality masks: Distribution of free high‑filtration masks (N95/KN95) came late and never reached the same scale or clarity as vaccine campaigns.
    • Risk‑stratified guidance: There was little clear, simple messaging for different risk groups (e.g., “if you’re older or high‑risk, here’s your playbook”), leaving many to fend for themselves.
  • Therapeutics rollout problems
    • Paxlovid confusion: When antivirals became available, eligibility rules, drug interactions, and access pathways were poorly communicated; many high‑risk people never got them in time.
    • Provider hesitancy: Doctors and clinics were slow to prescribe due to unclear guidance and fear of side effects or interactions.
    • Equity gaps: Access to treatments and monoclonal antibodies was uneven, with better‑resourced areas often doing better than poorer or rural communities.
  • Data transparency and “end of emergency” messaging
    • Shifting metrics: Moving from case counts to hospitalizations and then to more limited dashboards felt to many like “hiding the ball,” even when justified by changing conditions.
    • Wind‑down of free tools: As the public health emergency ended, free testing, vaccines, and treatments became more complicated to access, and the messaging around that shift was not clear.
    • Public fatigue unmanaged: The administration never really reset the narrative into a coherent “long‑term COVID strategy” the public could understand; instead, things just quietly faded into the background.
  • Equity and trust gaps
    • Booster and treatment disparities: Despite strong equity rhetoric, booster uptake and treatment access lagged in many minority and low‑income communities.
    • Trust in institutions: Frequent changes, legal defeats, and partisan framing eroded trust in CDC, FDA, and federal health leadership among both skeptics and some supporters.
    • Politicization of expertise: Experts were often perceived as aligned with one political side, making it harder to land nuanced messages later

 

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Government Overreach Links from other news sources. Opinion Politics The Courts

Another one bites the dust. Michigan alternate juror case thrown out.

Another one bites the dust. Michigan alternate juror case thrown out.
After November oof 2020 alternate electors were chosen in six states. Pennsylvania was the only one of six who took no action. The other five made fools of themselves.

Michigan is now the latest where the courts ruled that there was no reason to bring forth charges. Now the 16 charged are fighting back. They filed a lawsuit. What I found interesting was this.

MI AG Dana Nessel on a Zoom call with a far-left group, bragging about how, if the judge (Kristin Simmins) decides to send the alternate electors case to a jury trial, she’s set them up to be tried in the deep blue city of Lansing, MI, where it’s very likely they won’t get a fair jury trial.

Arizona (legal instructions + intent issues)

Nevada (procedural/jurisdictional failure)

Georgia (insufficient evidence of intent)

New Mexico (no statutory basis + intent problems)

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Government Overreach Lawfare Leftist Virtue(!) Links from other news sources.

Arizona AG. Did she also have her mother do her homework for ten years?

Arizona AG. Did she also have her mother do her homework for ten years?

She reminds me of a loon who did their sons homework for ten years so he could become a lawyer. It is ALWAYS a federal crime
Under federal law, shooting at an ICE agent is a felony regardless of the state where it happens.

The key statutes:

18 U.S.C. § 111
Assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer.

Using a firearm elevates it to a felony with very high penalties.

18 U.S.C. § 1114
Attempted killing of a federal officer.

Punishable by up to life in federal prison.

18 U.S.C. § 115
Threats or attempts to harm federal officers.

So federal charges are guaranteed.

So, state stand your ground has no bearing whatsoever. Unless the AG wishes to add additional charges.

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Back Door Power Grab Blue or red states. Commentary Domestic Progressive Terrorism Government Overreach

What Progressives mean by collective housing.

What Progressives mean by collective housing.

Depends upon who you ask. Conservatives will tell you that the government is the only ones who can own property meaning housing and businesses. Progressives say that a start would be only houses and rentals that whites and well to do folks of color would have their property seized. Below is a progressive example.

What collective housing” means in Mamdani’s context.

Based on the resurfaced statements from his top housing appointee, Cea Weaver, and the ideological framing in his inaugural speech, “collective housing” refers to:

1. Reducing or eliminating private homeownership

Weaver has said that private property—especially homeownership—is a “weapon of white supremacy” and should be replaced with collective models.

2. Treating housing as a “collective good”

Weaver argued that property should be treated as a collective good, not an individually owned asset.

3. Moving toward shared or publicly controlled housing

While Mamdani hasn’t laid out a detailed blueprint, the ideological framing aligns with:

Community land trusts

Social housing

Cooperative ownership

Public or quasi-public control of land and buildings

These are all forms of collectivized housing, where individuals do not own property outright.

4. A broader ideological shift toward “collectivism”

In his inauguration, Mamdani said he wanted to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”.
Housing is one of the clearest policy areas where this worldview shows up.

🧩 Why these matters

The Fox News reporting highlights that Weaver explicitly said transitioning away from private property would impact “white families especially”—because they disproportionately hold home equity. That frames “collective housing” not just as an economic model but as a redistributive and racialized policy goal.

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California. Commentary Government Overreach Musk

This should be good. Tesla given 90 days to rename ‘Autopilot’ or leave California.

This should be good. Tesla given 90 days to rename ‘Autopilot’ or leave California.

Tesla is being told that they’re violating California deceptive laws. The regulators say that Tesla’s “Autopilot” and “Full Self‑Driving” (FSD)—misleads consumers about what the systems can actually do. Autopilot and FSD are driver‑assist systems, not autonomous driving. Change the name or stop selling cars in California.

If Musk refuses to do this, California will lose roughly $900 million per year in direct revenue if Tesla stopped selling cars in the state. Sales taxes alone would be over 800 million.

And if Tesla shut down all together in California? Tesla shut down its California operations and moved all employees out, the statewide economic loss would be in the tens of billions per year, not just the $900M in tax revenue from vehicle sales. California would lose over $15–$20 billion in annual economic activity, plus billions more in lost income taxes, property taxes, and local spending.

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California. Commentary Corruption Democrat Government Overreach Leftist Virtue(!) Links from other news sources. New York Opinion Politics Progressive Supremacy. Taxes

See this Progressive Leftist Democrats?

See this Progressive Leftist Democrats?
Tax the rich the sign carrier in the article picture says. Translation, tax anything that moves. Unless it’s a protestor. “Switzerland on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 50% tax on inherited fortunes of 50 million Swiss francs ($62 million) or more, with 78% of votes against the plan, an outcome that even exceeded the two‑thirds opposition indicated in polls,” Reuters reported this week.

American states like New York, Illinois, and California are looking to do something different. But when the taxes are increased the ones paying are the first to leave. Meaning that those who stay end up paying more.

Nuff Said.

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Back Door Power Grab Biden Biden Cartel Government Overreach Opinion Politics Reprints from others.

1,565 Clemency Actions in One Day — But Who Signed Them?

1,565 Clemency Actions in One Day — But Who Signed Them?

THE CONCERN
Was President Biden mentally competent when 39 pardons were issued on Dec 22, 2024? Reports suggest aides may have used the autopen — without his direct approval.

THE LAW
Only the President can grant pardons. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives this power exclusively to the President. It cannot be delegated — not even to a Chief of Staff or Cabinet Secretary.

AUTOPEN ≠ INTENT
The autopen is legal only if the President gives contemporaneous, knowing approval. If that didn’t happen? Those pardons are constitutionally void.

THE SCALE
1,565 clemency actions in one day. That’s more than any President in modern history — and it happened during a period of reported cognitive decl

THE INVESTIGATION
The House Oversight Committee is probing:

Unauthorized autopen use

Lack of documentation

Concealment of Biden’s condition

WHY IT MATTERS
If aides issued pardons without Biden’s approval, it’s not just a scandal — It’s a constitutional cris

CALL TO ACTION
The world deserves answers. Demand a full review of every December 2024 pardon. The rule of law depends on it.

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How stupid is the California governor?

How stupid is the California governor?

Last week the governor was in a panic because he claimed that the federal government was going to shut down I5.A plan to fire live artillery shells over a major Southern California highway as part of a military showcase attended Saturday by Vice President JD Vance drew strong objections from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

So, what does he do? Closes down parts of I5 AND THE FEDS SAID THERE NEVER WERE ANY PLANS TO CLOSE THE FREEWAY.

Now California is going to make its own insulin and sell it to Pharmacies for $45.00 a five pack. The claim is that the Pharmacies are going to sell it for $55.00. Their profit is only going to be $10.00. I worked wholesale and that is not going to happen.

Let’s use LA county where Newsom made the announcement. Advertising Costs: Even modest local ad campaigns (radio, print, digital) could exceed $10 per unit in cost, making promotion financially unviable.

Urban Overhead: LA pharmacies face higher rent, labor, and insurance costs than rural counterparts, further squeezing margins.

Volume Uncertainty: Without guaranteed high demand, pharmacies risk stocking a low-margin product that doesn’t move quickly.

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Defeating Lawfare. FTC dismisses case against Grand Canyon Education.

Defeating Lawfare. FTC dismisses case against Grand Canyon Education.

In its initial lawsuit against the company, university, and its president, Brian Mueller, the FTC accuses the company of engaging in deceptive advertising, violating telemarketing rules, and falsely marketing itself as a non-profit entity.

In return, Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) accused the Federal Trade Commission under the Biden Administration as acting under a “broader ideological agenda,” and “attempting to “undermine a thriving Christian university” by tying up the company’s resources with “fishing expeditions requesting voluminous amounts of inflation in hopes of uncovering wrongdoing.”

The FTC dropped its lawsuit against the company in the wake of recent court decisions favoring Grand Canyon, including the Department of Education’s reversal of a $37.7 million Title IV fine related to postsecondary degrees and the U.S. District Court of Arizona’s dismissal of the FTC’s case. Additionally, the Internal Revenue Service confirmed that Grand Canyon University (NASDAQ:LOPE) was properly classified as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit entity.

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