OT: CalExit

Given the attorney general had a "Monica Lewinsky moment" during his job interview, I can't say I blame them.

If it is acceptable for high-ranking law officials to lie under oath without consequences, does that mean it is OK for everybody to lie under oath without consequences?

Or is this a (continuing) case of the Washington elite not being bound by the same rules as the little people?

I'd add a ":)" if the topic wasn't so serious.

Do you really believe it could ever happen?

Best regards, Piotr

Probably not. The US Civil War was fought to prevent a similar sort of secession.

We need a another civil war except this time to kick the southern states out of the union, they're a bunch of parasitic leeches and lunatics.

That article could basically be titled "Edward Forde Sets Up a Lot of Straw Men"

The best part for Californians if and when they exit the Union isn't all the "entitlement programs" they could introduce for themselves, but all the money they could save shelling out for the millions of entitlement-sucking _deadbeats_ in red states who will _always_ express their gratitude by stabbing you in the back for being silly enough to have sympathy.

I don't have much respect for the opinions of an arts professor who was certainly a member of a teacher's union for the better part of all the decades he worked in the CA university system and then turns around to rail against them the moment he gets an "emeritus" tagged next to his name - sort of shows the same mentality.

From the resume it looks like his "budget experience" was mostly managing taxpayer-funded grants for his own programs. Well that's gratitude for ya.

So it really took him 32 years to figure out he didn't like California? Sounds like was all for it so long as the money was good.

The weird thing is in the article he says he left the state, but CSU still lists him as as a current department chair.

All the "real men" in these places you encounter on the 'Net seem to do is complain all day like woman.

That's a falsehood. If you listen to what was asked and what Sessions' actually said, there's no problem with it at all--he didn't meet with the Russians to discuss the campaign.

It's an absurd lie certain Democrats are trying to foist on the ignorant, evidently with some success.

Lying isn't okay, but it's the Democrats (like Pelosi, Schumer, and Franken) who are doing it, and their media outlets are happy to assist.

That's why they're so deplorable.

The "Russia" story isn't serious at all, it's laughable--the Democrats want to insist they lost the election because Russians read their e-mail?

If we're worried about high officials collaborating with the Russians we have Barack Obama on an open mic *outright offering* Putin "more flexibility" if he, Obama, gets re-elected (2012). We have Hillary's Foundation getting boatloads after Her Highness approved Russian deals.

Those were impeachable, and both should've been impeached, IMO.

The serious topic today is this collusion between media outlets and Democrats and their quest to sabotage the government, not this laughable "We chose stupid passwords for our e-mail accounts and Russians read them" nonsense.

James Arthur

s/_deadbeats_/_Democrats_/. It's always the big Democrat cities in any state that attract the people you're presently busy loathing (which is odd, btw, since you're more usually using them to justify federal redistribution of wealth, citing your moral superiority and compassion).

P.S. Deep blue California has 1/8th the nation's population, but 1/3 of the nation's welfare recipients.

Of those who'd be employed in California or other totalitarian system, Party membership is required.

That's what socialism's good at: creating a giant zero-sum competition that everyone smart milks for all it's worth, then leaves the less scheming in their dust. You know, "compassion."

Cheers, James Arthur

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The "revelations" from the hacked Democrat e-mails were remarkably well-tim ed to do as much damage to Clinton as possible. James Comey's announcements that the FBI were re-opening investigations into Clinton's e-mails shortly before the election, closely followed by an announcement that there actual ly wasn't anything to investigate, were entirely bizarre, and certainly loo ked partisan.

ity" > if he, Obama, gets re-elected (2012). We have Hillary's Foundation

But they weren't impeached despite a Republican majority in Congress, so a rational observer might conclude that they never were impeachable. Teflon W illy has been in this game for quite a while, and one suspects that he enjo ys driving Republicans into apoplexy.

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The New Yorker "Comment" in the 27 February 2017 edition seems to think tha t neither the media nor the Democrats have to sabotage the Trump administra tion - Trump and his clown car can do that on their own. "If Trump were mor e rational and more competent, he might have a chance of destroying our dem ocracy".

The media can't report the Trump administration's antics accurately without making them look bad. No conspiracy or collusion required.

It's a rather dim view of human nature to believe that the only "smart" thing to do would be to milk the system, though. Maybe it's the only smart thing to do if humans were finally just Bayesian utility-maximizers. But that's not what people are.

Living on public assistance and eating from EBT is not what people _want_ to do, at least not "normal" people. Do you think it's fun? Does it sound like a happy life to you? IMO what people want for the most part is to actualize their own potential, and I see that in practice every day.

And there will always be people who abuse the privilege. So what? There are always people who abuse anything. If you had say, a $1000/mo minimum income and two people used it to launch themselves out of poverty for every one person who stayed behind and gamed - that sounds like a net win to me.

Treating life like a "zero-sum competition that everyone milks for all its worth" does sound a lot like the mentality of a former university professor who sat in on union meetings for ~30 yrs and then stabbed them in the back on a Conservative blog the moment the money wasn't good anymore. "Party membership is required?" Fuck you man, you didn't have to be a member of anything if you didn't like it. If he didn't like the fact his art degree wouldn't allow him to do anything but work at a public university writing grant proposals and fighting budget battles maybe he should have gone into engineering.

Sounds a lot like psychological projection, frankly. The poor have been trying to tell you for a long time what they're actually about. Too bad you never bothered to listen.

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Sweden and Germany seem to be able to run it as a positive sum game. The Ge rmans collect about 45% of the GDP in tax, but spend quite a bit of that mo ney on producing a work force that has a higher proportion of tertiary educ ated workers than any other country.

This may explain, in part, how Germany manages to export about as much as t he US when it only has a quarter of the population.

The US does spend quite a lot on education, but New York spends three times as much per student as Idaho and Utah.

The real variation is between school districts, but I've not seen any stati stics on that. In Australia the system works differently, but kids from ric h families with books in the family home do seem to get quite a bit more su pport from their schools than the poor kids who need more help.

This is liberty, but scarcely equality.

The press is dumping megabytes of made-up text about the Sessions "perjury", but the MSM won't repeat the short, verbatum question and answer... they won't actually perform "reporting."

As far as we can tell, he answered a question precisely and honestly. That's what the establishment press is determined to not report.

Clinton clearly lied, as he wagged his finger at the USA, about Monica.

PS: he also tries to run a bit of ancestor-sympathy game about how his family lived in California for X number of generations, and now "oh poor me I have no choice but to leave."

Real talk: Nobody with any sense in America honestly gives a God DAMN how many thousands of centuries your family or that family have considered California, West Virginia, or Flint, Michigan to be your ancestral homeland, or how angry you are that this Democratic administration or that can't magically make 100k/yr manufacturing jobs appear in the middle of nowhere because that's where you feel "home" is.

It's not how America operates. If you don't like it - leave.

The left loves the idea of spending rich peoples' money to help poor people. Unless it's their money, and unless those poor people don't admire their theories.

Imagine California funding 1400 miles of wall to control the border. Gunboats on Lake Tahoe to keep out refugees from Nevada. Of course, we'd save by omitting the fence along the border with Mexico.

That's it! Give California back to Mexico, the folks we stole it from. Change the official language to Spanish.

The right loves the idea of spending money, anyone's they can get their hands on by any means necessary, fair or foul. Primarily on themselves.

The technical term for the mentality is "Fuck You That's Mine"

Absolutely. That's why I'm here.

Whereas Republican politicians will all go straight to heaven?

Jim Thompson calling anybody else ignorant definitely has an ironic element. How on earth would he know? He is ignorant enough to be quite unaware how spectacularly ignorant he is, so he is sincerely ridiculous.