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Well, well, well ... some folks are just now figuring out what the great unwashed masses in Flyover Country knew many generations ago: you select your leaders based on ability - not race, not sex, not ideology. Doing otherwise - electing officials whose driving force is trying to engineer equality of outcome (what they call "equity") instead of providing equality of opportunity - leads down a long, winding rabbit hole where you really don't want to go.

But of course, if they had read a little history they would know that those dead white men who bolted this Nation together told us all this a right good while ago.

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People are realizing that without law and order, nothing else matters.

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I grew up in the Deep South, and I’ve spent most of my life below the Mason-Dixon Line.

The most racist people I’ve met (in this country, at least) are upper-class, white, usually well-educated liberals. The ironic part is that they don’t see how they’re racists.

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"...Obama, who had ascended to the pinnacle of the post-Cold War American totem pole, who had presided over it and tended to it but done little..."

You mean making liberals, particularly "well educated" and wealthy white people, feel good about themselves isn't a tangible accomplishment? It might be my imagination, but I feel that just a little bit more each day, people are starting to realize that the emporer never had any clothes. Obama is the most substanceless public figure of my lifetime, and it's about time we all moved on and turn the channel the next time he insists on getting more attention. I saw him on Monday Night Football recently. The man really can't go 5 minutes without some kind of public validation and praise.

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What gets me about the chaos that resulted from "Defund the Police" and BLM is the OBVIOUS downhill effect of such unmitigated bullshit. It was racist in the sense that indeed, blacks do commit a high percentage of crime, ERGO let's not arrest them for it; resisting arrest for raping a woman and kidnapping her children is acceptable behavior for a black man (he knows better than we do what should be done with him); we don't need to see the full footage of the George Floyd tragedy, still billed as a "murder" which it arguably was not....

The delusions were running rampant. Meanwhile, when I brought up the slaughter of a one-year-old in gang crossfire around the corner from where I live, and the (black) grandmother of this child declaring that she WANTS police protection...

A frothing-at-the-mouth Useful Idiot fellow faculty member sent me a private message saying: "I'm afraid to work with you."

Never mind that the only opinions headlining my post on social media during this collective frenzy were the opinions of black people...the now mayor of NYC, the community leader in the neighborhood where this senseless killing occurred, and the NOT WHITE POLICE DETECTIVES who came to my door and who told me that dodging bullets on their way to school in the 90s is why they became police officers....

This faculty tool who reached out to let me know how "dangerous" my post was teaches RESEARCH SKILLS.

The best that can come out of this is a complete 180 political turn. These tools need to eat crow. On the one hand, I try to respect the perspectives of other people. But on so many occasions I have wanted to lob my own message saying: THANKS A LOT. YOUR OPINION MADE IT MUCH MORE DANGEROUS WHERE I LIVE. Meanwhile, you're sitting there watching TV in your suburban enclave, completely oblivious to the rotten truth behind the stupid black square you posted on Instagram.

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My heart breaks for Nicole Avant, truly. That said, I can’t help but think the people in this article merely want to preserve their little piece of paradise. They’ll elect Caruso, and LA — maybe — will be restored to its glittery, glitzy glory. Then they’ll get back to work producing the dreck that has contributed mightily to America’s physical, moral, and spiritual decay. These folks still don’t understand why 80MM+ of us voted for Orange Man. We truly believe in this country, the genius of its founding, and its greatness past and present. These Hollywood types? They still need convincing. We need much more from them than inch-deep epiphanies.

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I'm thrilled that Ms. Heslov was able to overcome her Trump-caused PTSD. Her courageous journey of healing, self-discovery and transformation should serve as an inspiration to all of us.

Who hasn't experienced the trauma of a mean tweet? There's no shame in admitting that you hurt and need to be held in the warm embrace of understanding and love.

It's been said that "War is Hell", but war is nothing compared to the scars received in the rough and tumble of the "Twitterverse".

Bravo Ms. Heslov! Bravo!

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We saw all this before. New York City becoming an open-air cesspool under a black mayor, David Dinkins. People leaving, fed up, so aghast at the chaos that they voted in Giuliani. And then, miracle of miracles, the city improved and healed. Rudy was hailed - but never loved by the nascent "wokerati."

The only thing that's changed is that the Democrat Party has gotten way "stupider" and is now fully steeped in idiocy, insanity and race and gender soaked ideology. But, when given the chance to govern, that poisonous mix is way more toxic and destructive than it was several decades ago.

So is anyone really surprised by the chaos in our Democrat run cities? Or the public -even the remaining sentient and semi-sane Democrats - becoming so fed up that they're turning to Republican governance?

Wash, rinse, repeat. But, sorry, you can't fix stupid. And Dems will always revert to form.

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How does anyone not understand that without accountability and responsibility you end up with chaos and anarchy……..

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Let's be realistic here. Bass will win and LA will continue to be a shit hole just like SF. Why, the rich elites (elites is short for stupid asses) who forget where they came from and what it was like to struggle. If all of these A listers and even the B listers really cared about anyone but themselves, they would have long ago made sure the city had adequate police, fire, and job opportunities while rejecting absolutely stupid failed ideas from people with no life knowledge.

They only care when the rooster shits in their yard. Then it must be fixed. NY got fixed before and then the Liberals just went right back to work destroying it again. See once the gated communities and guards are no longer are good enough to keep the precious rich folks safe, then society must be restored. Well welcome to Utopia since you were right there helping create the crap hole that is now CA.

Funny, because fixing LA may not save it. Projected when the Salton Sea dries up even more the polluted dust that will blow to LA will make it unlivable. See the so-called environmentalists are a joke and don't see real threats. Build a multi-billion train to nowhere, that is now probably going to scraped, but no desalination plants for the rising oceans. Just like the Liberals don't see rampant mental health and drug use as a danger. Well at least until it bites them in the ass. Enjoy what you have created, no sympathy here. You made it, live in it and please keep it there. As Jack said, Go pedal your crazy someplace else, we are all stocked up here.

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"For many in Hollywood, it came on December 1, 2021, when a robber—a repeat offender—broke into the Beverly Hills home of Nicole Avant’s parents. He shot Avant’s 91-year-old mother in the back, killing her—and later, according to court records, laughing and bragging about it."

They can kill others but not theirs. Sad that it took this to open their eyes.

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Democrats Ruin Everything. Defund the Democrats.

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Interesting… on NPR this morning I was told that crime isn’t really going up; that it’s "complicated" and "nuanced", that the serious crimes (murder, rape, etc.) were picked out 100 years ago by police (silly police! what about corporations doing bad things?! Like murdering the planet!), that all of this is just racist blah blah blah black and brown bodies, that "white conservatives" don’t really care about the neighborhoods where homicide is rising the most ("black and brown") and their proposed solutions "impact" those neighborhoods more, just like the crime itself (wait I thought the crime was made up? I’m confused. So the solutions are worse than homicide? But the solutions don’t work and didn’t work before when crime went down? I’m more confused.), and on and on and on.

It was truly a work of art, a wonder to behold. And a sign of utter desperation - they realize that people beyond bad Republicans may be starting to wake up to the mayhem around them.

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I’m an Angeleno, and we have been putting up with the homeless crap, harassment, arson, and routine theft and vandalism for many years now. L.A. has turned into a cesspool of dirt, trash, and is full of victims of crime of all sorts. All of these Hollywood types with their sorry ‘Donald Trump’ PTSD are insulated and out of touch. All of them. Jackie Avant was a beautiful lady who should never have been shot and killed. No one should be! A tragedy. It makes me angry that that is what it takes for these self-righteous, immature people to see beyond themselves and their pathetic Trump 'PTSD.' Get over it, grow up, and join the real world like the rest of us.

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Again we are shedding tears over superrich switching sides the moment their own failure and selfishness backfires on their families and businesses. And I mean real rich people, not the working middle class who is blamed - and punished- by all sides

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Let's hope the rest of the country doesn't wait so long to start making sense of things.

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