Meme - Give a Shift About Nature: "Why do you want China to be better than us? Americans who hate high speed rail should have to explain why they want China to be better than us."
"How'd that one go in Cali. That why"
Jake C. Perry: "It hasn't even started being built yet. The fuck are you on about?"
"what are YOU talking about? Clearly you don't belong in this conversation."
Jake C. Perry: "Care to explain how? Cause the Cali high speed rail line isn't scheduled to start being built til 2031. A quick Google search can confirm this"
Left wingers defending California's high speed rail which has been in the works since 2008 and is scheduled to open in 2031 because it's not behind schedule
Meme - Star Corps Industries is at California Railroad Museum, Old Town Sacramento.: "So here’s a fun little update in the saga of “California High Speed Rail Will Never Happen, I Read It in a Comment Section Once.” The California High Speed Rail Authority just approved the environmental impact statement for the Palmdale-to-Burbank segment. That means the entire 463-mile route from San Francisco to Los Angeles - everything shown on the map - is now environmentally cleared. All of it. From the Bay to the Basin. Yes, even the part people kept insisting would “never get approved because of mountains and squirrels.” The Palmdale–Burbank stretch is a big one: 38 miles, trains up to 220 mph, about 30 miles of tunnels, and nearly all of that boring straight through the San Gabriels and Angeles National Forest. When it’s done, that section alone will take about 20 minutes. Twenty. Minutes. I’ve spent longer waiting for an iced coffee. This clears the way for actual construction prep to start on that segment - and once the LA–Anaheim paperwork is finalized next year, the whole southern alignment will be wrapped up too. Long story short: the “it’ll never happen” crowd might want to start workshopping some new material. The trains are coming. The map’s filling in. And the excuses are running out. #train #HSR #rails #california #sanfrancisco #losangeles"
Lucas Morgan: "20 years and billions of dollars later and the paperwork is complete, suck it naysayers. I be buying the ticket for my first trip tomorrow!"
Rich Kaduce: "My 15-year-old nephew will enjoy his senior citizen's discount when this thing is fully operational."
Jeff Snavely: "1981: The year that this all started."
Grayson Avellar: "Gonna save this post and bring it back up in five years so we can see how well it aged."
Matthew Flavhan: "So when did this project begin exactly? No Track laid yet, but all environmental approvals complete? Seems like that took an inordinate amount of time, so when can I plan on riding the rails ? How much have they spent so far to have no track and no trains?"
Alexander Treadwell: "Complete in 3055 once ComStar is done with sorting out the red tape that started this nonsense."
California withdraws high-speed rail lawsuit over $4B federal cut - "California on Tuesday withdrew its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the termination of about $4 billion in federal funding for its high-speed rail project, citing the federal government’s unreliability as the reason for the decision. The development follows a lawsuit filed in July, when California sued the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration to restore funding for the project. “This action reflects the State’s assessment that the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California,” a California High-Speed Rail Authority spokesperson said in an email to The Sacramento Bee... California’s high-speed rail project has seen delays and cost increases over the years, drawing criticism from opponents and renewed scrutiny from federal officials. When it was originally approved by voters in 2008, it was envisioned as a 3-hour bullet train that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Since then, the project has been downsized, with its first segment set to open in part of the Central Valley in 2033. In July, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy referred to the project as a “boondoggle,” blaming California, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats for what he described as “a decade of failures.” “Federal dollars are not a blank check – they come with a promise to deliver results,” Duffy said in a news release in July. “After over a decade of failures, CHSRA’s mismanagement and incompetence has proven it cannot build its train to nowhere on time or on budget.”"
When you're scared of Discovery
This is almost as ridiculous as blaming Elon Musk for California's inability to build high speed rail
KTLA on X - "In a 60 Minutes report, officials said they now believe the rail line linking L.A. and San Francisco could ultimately cost about $126 billion, more than triple the original price tag approved by voters."
Robert Graham on X - "Socialists shrug their shoulders at such costs. But capitalists do math. They estimate once completed there will be 30 million rides per year between SF and LA. But paying interest on a $126 billion loan is still more expensive than simply providing free airplane rides for those riders. That's why socialist countries are poor, they spend huge amounts of capital on political-but-wasteful projects so there's no capital left to spend on useful stuff, like factories. The California high-speed rail isn't economically viable."
Meme - Mark Hemingway @Heminator: "California passed a law to punish social media posts that mock "race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or other protected characteristics" LAST WEEK!"
Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice: ""Honey, did you post something negative about the regime?" *troops at door*"
Of course, if you mock white people, Christianity, men, straight people, or legal immigrants/citizens, nothing will happen to you
Meme - Covfefe Anon: "This really is an illustrative tweet Remember, in the leftist view an idea being popular and having no downsides "is part of their conception of themselves*
‘Stolen Land’: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Agricultural Equity’ Advisers Prepare Plan To Redistribute Farmland to Racial Minorities - "For more than two years, the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force—part of Newsom's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation—has crafted a set of policy recommendations to "equitably increase agricultural land access.""
Kevin Kiley on X - "A third of community college applicants were fake. $17 billion was spent on High-Speed Rail with no track. $24 billion in homelessness funds disappeared. $32 billion was lost to unemployment fraud. Medi-Cal and SNAP are rife with improper payments. This is Newsom's California."
Kevin Kiley on X - "It's been 5 years since the State Auditor found the Newsom Administration allowed $32 billion in unemployment fraud after ignoring "repeated warnings." Yet the Auditor just found that billions in EDD fraud continues to this day. California is truly America's Fraud Capital."
California's woes were born in England - "The more time you spend in California, the less sense its politics make. It’s progressive, of course. But the style of progressivism in the West Coast is distinct from that in the East, in roughly the same way that Silicon Valley-style capitalism differs from the Wall Street variety. The West Coast species is the cowboy version: more rebellious, less civilised, and also completely incoherent. On the one hand, it’s the same schoolmarmish, nanny-state liberalism you can find in any blue state: bans on plastic straws, quotas for women on corporate boards, mandated gender neutral toy aisles. On the other, it’s the exact inverse: permissiveness verging on criminal negligence. In San Francisco, for instance, it’s illegal not to compost your food scraps. But you can smoke meth outside a playground and suffer little more than glares from passersby. In California, college students are required by law to obtain repeated, vocal permission from their partners for a sexual encounter to be deemed not rape. But pimps can openly sex traffic minors on city streets in broad daylight, and the police can do little about it. All of these disparate approaches to perceived social problems are regarded as “progressive”. What California does, the rest of the country tends to follow. In the past two decades or so, the West Coast’s version of progressivism has become ascendant in Left-wing American politics from coast to coast. New York City, for instance, has embraced not only San Francisco’s compost law, but its laissez-faire approach to public drug use too. How, then, can we explain this weird blend of big-state progressivism and Left-wing American libertarianism? We can start by tracing its roots to medieval England. In his 1989 book, Albion’s Seed, the historian David Hackett Fischer describes four distinct American political traditions that originated in four waves of migration to the New World, each from different regions of England. The most famous of these groups were the Puritans from East Anglia, who believed in community and the power of the state. Then there were the “Scots-Irish” from the Scottish-English borderlands, who shunned any form of authority whatsoever. Together, these two groups would come to shape the politics of contemporary California... California has the highest rate of unsheltered homelessness, followed by Oregon, whose settlement history and politics are very similar to those of Northern California. By contrast, New York City, whose upstate region was settled by Yankees, has the third lowest rate of unsheltered homelessness in America. Its success in bringing its homeless population indoors is thanks to its “right to shelter” law — a classic top-down Yankee solution to an urgent social problem. Neither California nor Oregon has such a law. What’s more, homeless advocates on the West Coast fight to prevent city governments from infringing on homeless people’s freedom to sleep in tents on the street, a liberty that would be easily understood by the Scots-Irish of Appalachia but would perplex the Puritans of New England. The result of this inscrutable ideology is a state that fails to fulfil the most elementary obligation of government: the provision of basic social order"
California mom fined $88K after kids collect 72 clams from Pismo Beach thinking they were seashells
GOLDEN STATE EXODUS: Valero Burns $1B Just to Get Out of California - "California just lost another giant, and this one came with a billion-dollar receipt. Valero Energy is reportedly taking a staggering $1 billion loss to shut down and exit California by April 2026 rather than comply with the ever-expanding mandates pushed by Governor Gavin Newsom and his regulatory agencies. Let that sink in. One of the largest energy companies in the country looked at Sacramento’s rules, did the math, and decided it was cheaper to walk away than play along. This is not a market failure. It is a policy failure. Valero’s decision is a brutal indictment of California’s hostile business climate, particularly its war on reliable energy. Refiners have been squeezed by low-carbon fuel standards, cap-and-trade costs, and a regulatory environment so unpredictable that long-term investment has become nearly impossible. Newsom can spin press releases all he wants, but when a company willingly eats a billion dollars to leave, the message is crystal clear: California is ungovernable for serious industry. And Californians will pay the price. Fewer refineries mean tighter fuel supply, higher gas prices, and more dependence on imports. Sacramento politicians will blame “greed” or “Big Oil,” but the reality is simpler and far more inconvenient. You cannot regulate your way to prosperity, and you certainly cannot punish producers without consequences. Valero is hardly alone. Over the past several years, California has watched a steady parade of companies pack up and leave. Chevron announced it was moving its headquarters to Texas. Tesla relocated its headquarters to Austin. Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and Charles Schwab all followed the same path. Each exit comes with lost jobs, lost tax revenue, and lost opportunity. Meanwhile, Nevada keeps winning. As California drives businesses out with red tape and mandates, Nevada has positioned itself as a refuge for companies looking for sanity, stability, and respect for free enterprise. Lower taxes, a lighter regulatory touch, and a government that actually wants employers have made Nevada a natural landing spot. From logistics and manufacturing to tech and energy services, companies fleeing California are finding that Nevada offers what Sacramento no longer can: certainty. This contrast could not be sharper. California’s leadership believes it can bully industry into submission. Nevada understands that prosperity comes from partnership, not punishment. One state lectures, mandates, and micromanages. The other welcomes investment and growth. Valero’s billion-dollar exit should be a five-alarm fire for California Democrats, but don’t expect a course correction. Newsom and his allies remain committed to doubling down, even as refineries close, prices climb, and jobs vanish. Ideology comes first. Reality comes later."
Discover San Diego - "5.99$ for gas in San Diego today 😨🚨 with the trump administration neglecting global warming and trying to pump as much as much fossil fuels I thought gas would be cheaper :/"
Cece Woods on X - "LA is two and a half years out from the Olympics and the City of Los Angeles is doing something truly innovative: dismantling public safety in real time. LAPD is bleeding out, and City Hall is acting like this is a manageable PR issue instead of an operational collapse. Here are the numbers they don’t want you to focus on:
California Post on X - "Today’s cover: California Post reporter attacked by mob of protesters – at L.A. Police Commission!"
Arthur MacWaters on X - "Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
Chamath Palihapitiya on X - "California sits at the intersection of two extremes. On one end is a population of extremely smart, capable Californians that have helped build the 4th largest economy in the world. At the other end sits the same extremely smart, capable population but who have turned their brains off and have elected, year after year for decades, a group of incompetent and corrupt politicians that have hijacked the governance of the state. In lockstep, the finances, pensions and livability of California erodes every day: the fire hydrants are empty, the drug addicts get free drugs, the alcoholics get free beer, the criminals get “get out of jail free” cards, the average grades of students are falling off a cliff, you can’t build homes for normal people but you can pretend to build them for the homeless and get taxpayers to foot the bill, you can’t improve health care subsidies unless they are for illegal immigrants, you don’t want to tell the truth about exploding pensions so you change how you report about them to hide the time bomb. And on and on. The everyday citizens that make California great needs to wake up to the fact that their apathy has created this chaos and we must change direction to undo it."
Wall Street Apes on X - "The fraud being exposed in California is INSANE
Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD on X - "Hey @GavinNewsom @cagovernor While you cut the ribbon on your $239 million San Quentin Learing Center — turning a maximum-security prison into a cushy medium-security rehabilitation resort — you've slashed capacity by over 1,000 inmates, given hardened felons guaranteed single rooms (no more bunk beds) & literally destroyed Death Row. I believe vocational training & real rehabilitation are important. They matter. But we also desperately need higher capacity to house violent, repeat, hardened criminals — not this reduced-capacity fantasy that leaves no room for them. Because of your policies, even in the rare cases where criminals are actually arrested, charged & convicted, there's nowhere to put them… so they're released back onto our streets. Why should convicted felons get taxpayer-funded luxury single rooms with Bay views while law-abiding Californians live in fear? Why did this "upgrade" have to cost nearly a quarter-billion dollars (total $650M for the renovation!) just to make the prison smaller and softer on crime? This isn't justice. This isn't public safety. This is backwards priorities that put criminals first. Californians are done with it."
skepticalifornia on X - "It's very on brand for California that one of the factors pushing Oakland towards a possible bankruptcy is environmental activists pushing the city to illegally renege on a port contract. Taxpayers are now on the hook for up to $654 million, before interest"
Governor Newsom Press Office on X - "Average gas prices in California have stayed below $5 for nearly two years. Trump’s new war is already rattling markets. We’re watching this space. Closely."
Schubert Strategies on X - "She was home asleep in her bed in San Francisco…in the safety of her own house. Roberto Detrinidad broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her. He admitted he chose her at random after seeing her through a window and believing he could “get away with it.” Now the California parole board has decided he’s ready to be released. According to his own parole hearing, Detrinidad had not completed meaningful sex-offender programming for years, and the District Attorney warned the panel that he still lacked concrete relapse-prevention treatment focused on sexual violence. Let that sink in: A man serving life for breaking into a stranger’s home and sexually assaulting her while she slept is being released even though the core risk factor — sexual violence — had barely been addressed. Victims deserve better than this. Why is California releasing violent sex offenders before they’ve even completed serious treatment for the crimes that put them in prison?"
Silicon Valley’s Surprising Exodus: Why They’re Fleeing - "The tech industry is experiencing a significant shift with companies leaving California. The high cost of living and doing business is a major driver of this migration. Companies are seeking more affordable and business-friendly locations. This trend is expected to continue, reshaping the tech industry landscape. Several major tech companies have already relocated or are in the process of doing so... Notable departures include: Tesla, which relocated its headquarters to Texas. Oracle, moving to Nashville, Tennessee. HP, splitting its operations between California and Texas... The scale of the tech exodus is substantial. According to recent data, California has seen a significant decline in tech industry jobs and investments. Some key statistics include:
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "🚨BREAKING: Video of the Democratic mayor of San Francisco is going viral after he calmly walked away while his security detail was being attacked. Mayor Daniel Lurie is seen watching his security officer struggle with a man, then turning and walking away as the officer is slammed to the ground, hits his head on the pavement, and is left bleeding."
Thread by @christopherrufo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "EXCLUSIVE: Despite years of scandal, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has revived a race-based slush fund that will give millions to black nonprofits that specialize in ancient Egyptian healing rituals, African ancestry DNA testing, and massage therapy for black criminals. 🧵
Governor Newsom Press Office on X - "POOR JD! HIS SWEET BELOVED COUCH NOW COSTS MORE WITH THE TARIFFS!"
BREAKING: California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has approved a campaign to gather signatures petitioning for a vote on whether California should leave the U.S. and become an independent country, per Newsweek : r/unusual_whales
Alec Stapp on X - "New data just released for August: Last month, Texas built more solar than the rest of the country combined."
"Trump said we did
"Newsom did
They don't even really see this as a lie - this is simply how they use words as a weapon - if it doesn't work, the words will be forgotten tomorrow"
"To them, words are merely a means to deceive humans"
Ezra Klein @ezraklein: "Trump often lies about Democrats giving healthcare to undocumented immigrants. In California, Newsom actually did it. And defends it. "I'm proud of that. I believe in universal health care""
Mobs of looters are grabbing goods in California thanks to downgraded shoplifting laws
Left wingers are so close to figuring it out. Too bad Orange Man Bad is an article of faith preventing critical thinking
*Down over 1,500 sworn officers
*Down over 500 civilian/professional staff
*Authorized right now for 240 hires through end of fiscal year (June 2026) *On track to lose 750+ more
And the pipeline? It’s a joke. LAPD currently has six academy classes averaging 30 recruits each. The January class started with 34 After the latest City Council vote, LAPD is now on track for only TWO new classes this fiscal year. Read that again: TWO classes. And here’s what City Hall doesn’t seem to understand (or doesn’t care about): When you slow-walk hiring, you lose candidates. The longer applicants sit in limbo, the more of them drop out. That’s not theory, it’s reality. So yes, the city can keep virtue-signaling, posturing, and pretending “everything is fine.” But by the time the Olympics arrive, law enforcement in Los Angeles won’t just be strained. It will be virtually non-existent."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Where are the strongly worded statements from journalistic organizations?"
Time to claim that they were evil feds
> MN had $19b fraud on a yearly budget of $54b
> if California is *only as corrupt* as MN, then we can estimate well over $100b of fraud
> CA politicians are trying to create an asset seizure tax that will destroy their state, while creating/allowing insane amounts of fraud
If people don't go to jail for this, I'll be very surprised. This is going to be the motherlode"
Clearly, "taxing the 'rich'" will solve everything. Weird how left wing policies are superior, yet California is in such a mess. Luckily rich people can always be scapegoated
- 18% of THE WHOLE COUNTRY’S home health care billing is coming out of Los Angeles County
- One doctor billed the government $120 million in a single year claiming to oversee 1,900 patients
- With almost 2,000 hospice agencies, Los Angeles County has more than 36 states combined and 30X MORE than the whole state of Florida and New York
“How is that possible? And take a look at this map, a cluster of 287 hospice providers, in a two-mile radius, some in strip malls, unmarked buildings, even a wrecking yard and vacant lot. All of it is just paperwork. I could fill that out in Kazakhstan if I want and get a hospice license waiting for me.”"
US Oil & Gas Association on X - "Time to school the Pajama Boy who runs this account for the Gov - because this isn't the flex on Trump he thinks it is.... California imports 63% of is crude from foreign countries - despite sitting on at least 1.7 billion barrels of proven reserves. According to the California Energy Commission here is the typical break down of where that foreign-sourced crude supplied to California refineries comes from:
Iraq: ~21% Brazil: ~20% Guyana: ~16%. Ecuador: ~14%. Colombia: ~6% Canada: ~4% Mexico: ~4% United Arab Emirates (UAE): ~2%. Others like Saudi Arabia will total the rest of the 100% foreign share.
The only state worried about rattling foreign markets is California because you have let yourselves become dependent on foreign supplies. You've done this to yourselves."
A 20% decrease in tech job postings in California over the past year
A $10 billion reduction in tech investments in the state...
A survey of departing companies reveals the following reasons for their departure:
Reason Percentage
High Cost of Living 40%
Regulatory Burden 25%
Difficulty Recruiting Talent 20%
Other 15%"
Former Mayor London Breed launched the "Dream Keeper Initiative" during George Floyd summer, but the program was quickly snared in scandal, with the director under criminal investigation for alleged fraud. Despite campaigning against the initiative, Lurie has quietly revived it. Lurie approved $1.1 million for the Homeless Children’s Network, a black racialist organization that provides "Afri-centric, trauma-informed" wellness services. The group specializes in Ma’at healing, which uses ancient Egyptian principles to treat "intergenerational racism." Next, Lurie approved $450,000 for the Transgender District, which was founded by three black trans women and hosts "riot" parties featuring all-black drag queens and instructs attendees to "pay your reparations" to the black community at the door. Next, Lurie approved $250,000 to Black Is Still Beautiful, which has provided African ancestry DNA testing and massage therapy to black criminals; and $400,000 to a group that produces black trans films, including one about "black transmen" experiencing "their first pregnancies."
According to experts, SF's program is likely a violation of federal civil rights law. The fund is racially targeted and many of the recipients advertise services in a racially segregated manner: blacks only. The Trump Administration, which has fought DEI, should take note."
Time to "tax the 'rich'" to pay for all this
Matthew Foldi on X - "Gavin Newsom backed a law to imprison Gavin Newsom for posts like this"
It's only treason if it hurts the left wing agenda
Armand Domalewski on X - "CALIFORNIA: we looove solar, can you just put together a 30,000 page report on the cultural impact that contemplating a solar panel may have on a marginalized community (retired rich homeowners)? 🥰
TEXAS: you want to put up a solar panel? sounds pretty gay, brother. but ok 👍"
