What do Rudy Giuliani, Zohran Mamdani, and a reality-TV villain suing LA have in common? Crossover moments — when lived experience finally beats tribal voting. California could be next. More.
Californian here. The amount of voter fraud is beyond comprehension. Mass mail-in ballots. No voter ID (It's actually illegal to ask for ID!). Mysterious ballot dumps, and zero for one particular candidate? Nothing to see here! Dems aren't even trying to hide it. They just pass a "stop Nick Shirley" law instead. Nothing to see here.
Also a Californian. I feel completely helpless and frustrated with the voting here in California. I know there’s cheating going on and wondering if our Federal government will step in and stop it. We’re the perfect example of why the SAVE act needed to pass; also not looking likely 😫
Yes. The local DMV’s of California, Oregon and Washington are automatically enrolling to vote any person who gets a driver’s license, ID card or changes address (Motor Voter Laws). Further, the Secretary of State’s are not requiring proof of citizenship from the DMV when those individuals records are transferred. This, along with 100% mail in voting, is a cleverly designed structural system that must be dismantled in future.
Something outside of California has to dismantle it. The Dems control everything in this state and of course, they won't change anything unless forced somehow.
SCOTUS is about to rule whether mail in ballots that arrive after Election Day can be counted (Watson vs. Republican National Committee). Hearings already occurred in March. It will have impact on 14 States for the upcoming general. If majority Supreme’s say no-go to ballots received after Election Day, it’s a start in the correct direction.
The fact that this is even allowed defies belief, and shows just how far D’s have gone to ensure they remain in power, forever, in these jurisdictions.
Let's be 100% crystal clear, mail in balloting was created for one reason and one reason only, to ensure the outcome. Period. Full Stop.
Wanna talk about cross over moments? When will there be enough cross over voters who stop using mail in ballots and go to the polls on election day, preventing them from having the month they need to change, dump ballots. When will there be enough cross over politicians who will stop the criminal theft of elections, never, because they are the ones who stay in power with wholesale mail in ballot fraud. California would not be "deep blue" without mail in ballot fraud. And they have spread it to other places like Arizona and coming soon to a state where you reside.
That’s because they want to ensure the voice of the people will never be heard. Do you think your state runs legitimate elections, that there is not wholesale mail in ballot fraud?
Why did you let your legislature do that? Its your (Citizens) election, not theirs. Doesn’t your state constitution require the consent of the people to change how elections are conducted?
Oh, no, we know there is all kinds of fraud going on - they mastered the whole "keep counting until the Dems get the result they want" with the Dino Rossi-Christine Gregoire governor's race.
Citizens do take these things to court for being unconstitutional, but the "Seattle Supreme Court" always throws them out, or rules against whatever citizen group has brought the suit.
Respectfully, where do you live, what state? Arizona?
Do you understand we are a 60-40 (Con to lib) country and yet are told we are 50-50? Its part of the gaslighting sold to us continuously so they can steal elections.
I'm in Arizona. Couldn't take California anymore, sold out and left over 30 years ago. But now as citizens flee from there, we fear they will "Californicate" our state.
Check your browser's "extensions". (I'm talking through my hat here, but I heard someone who played an IT guy on teevee say it one time.) Sometimes "extensions" affect behavior of some tabs.
I feel it's kind of hopeless that any investigation can reveal ballot fraud. The first thing they do is separate the ballot from the signed envelope, and after doing that, all they have is a pile of ballots. You have no way to prove a ballot is a real voter or not. And I just heard someone say (Jesse Watters I think) that now at least in L.A. they will not allow you to challenge the signature on the envelope even when it is clearly fake.
As expected, although Steve Hilton was ahead and Spencer Pratt in L.A. was ahead, guess what? By today, over 3 days after the polls "closed", that scum Becerra and the despicable Karen Bass are "suddenly surging ahead." Big surprise.
We should probably suspect that one goal is to make cheating apparent just enough to provoke frustration, then anger, then violence. Violence is evil's endgame. If it comes to that, evil must be thoroughly defeated. I hope we control our reactions and tread prayerfully.
Our Idaho dentist's son, who was in college in CA, was pulled in off the street when he walked by a voting precinct. The people in charge asked if he had voted. He told them he was not a resident of that state and went to pull out his Idaho ID. They stopped him and said "That doesn't matter! Come on in and vote. No ID needed!" So, with that in mind, a voter can just vote multiple times in one day at various precincts.
Yes, they'll count them as "provisional ballots" are reviewed by hand, and most likely changed (to Dem candidate) by the person at the Registrars office....
No kidding. I think that is a great idea! Road trip! “If anyone has ever wanted to see the once great state of California, November (insert election date here) would be a great day! And don’t forget to vote when you are there!”
I’ve got some time open next week. Can you ship me a few thousand California ballots to me here in Texas? I’ll throw a signing party, invite friends, we’ll all sign a bunch of ballots and mail them in
If you have a precinct that is open on election day! Last year, we voted early at one of the myriad of California's "Early Voting Center" locations. My husband used the machine to vote and I handed in my completed ballot. Curiously, the poll worker tried to get me to destroy my paper ballot and use the machine. Well, I didn't tell her, but that would have ruined our attempt to get at least one of our votes for Trump possibly counted.
As for the open precinct options for in-person voting on election day, there was not one available to me on Tuesday! In our city, a voter could only drop off a mail-in ballot at a minimal amount of locations throughout our city! So had I voted on Monday, or any of 11 days prior to the actual election, I could have cast my ballot in person, at multiple/10 to twenty locations, but not on the actual day of the election! That is how it it works now in California, at least in my Bay Area County! Wow! just Wow!
Too expensive to man precincts the day of? That can't be the answer, because they have the money and staffing to offer thousands of "Early Voting" locations for 11 days prior! So, could it be that the traditional wisdom is that Republican voters tend to be traditional and prefer to vote the day of the actual election, so....?
Reminds me of the "prosecute David Daleiden" case that then-A.G. Kamala Harris, followed by her successor, then-A.G. Xavier Becerra, prosecuted.
David Daleiden exposed and documented felonies being committed by abortion giant Planned Parenthood. So Harris and Becerra prosecuted... Daleiden. They did not investigate nor prosecute Planned Parenthood's felonies, they arrested and prosecuted the guy who REPORTED on the felonies!
Tina Peters followed protocol in logging irregularities in the Colorado voting system during the 2020 election. Of course she was the one punished for it.
It was a psyop. She never went to jail and neither did Bannon or Peter Navarro. It's just a story the media told us. None of it is real. Tina Peters is and has been protected by Patriots. How else did she get on War Room at 6am Mountain time on the day she was released. Did they release her at 3am? No. It was a psyop
Gonna need some documents and evidence - otherwise, your comment SEEMS to minimize evidence of the real suffering and injustice she bore. I realize that is likely not your intention.
There is 10 years of evidence. But you must do your own research. Top Anons to follow are Joe Rambo, DaveNewsTreason, Stormy Patriot Joe, X22, AndWeKnow and many others. Q is real. But we all have to do our own research. The evidence is beyond overwhelming if you do your due diligence.
As far as Tina Peters, explain how she was on War Room at 6am on the day she was 'released". Makes no sense. Plus, Bannon walked out of 'Jail" fat and with a dark tan. Impossible if he was in jail.
Navarro went straight to Club 47 on day he was "released". Not home. To a club. Sure. It's all psyops on top of psyops and the Q drops laid it all out years ago. People who know about Q were wrongly smeared for a decade. We'll have the last laugh.
Keep repeating that - it lets everyone know just how out of touch with reality democrats can be.
But I've give you ONE chance to come back to reality. The Colorado governor reduced her sentence. He said her sentence was an outlier. Many democrats were outraged and said she should stay. Republicans believe she was in prison. There was video of her in prison.
If you believe this, you will be there ALL BY YOURSELF.
I actually wonder if this is the election we are enough pissed off people will care and finally see the bullshit that happens with the vote counting that perhaps that can get addressed. Especially with the nonsense going on in LA.
I know that many people are pissed off, but it still seems that a great many are totally clueless about anything going on. They just don't follow politics OR the news. In California, a pathetically low number of eligible people bother to vote. Another thing I hear from younger people (under 40) is that they believe their vote is largely meaningless and that all politicians are thieving crooks. They're pretty negative.
They asked for my name and verified my address when I voted on Tuesday. The very odd thing was,I received a mail in ballot,but,I always vote in person. I did not bring my ballot with me and no one asked me if I had one. They just printed up the 2 new ballots. I certainly could have voted twice by mailing in …
Yep. I have no confidence at all. My adult son changed his address and they sent one to his new address and one to our address. Others have told the same or similar stories. Lots of extra ballots in the mail. The mail-in ballots are killing us.
Here in California, where ballots outnumber eligible voting citizens, the avenues to ensure a Democrat always win statewide elections are vast, wide, and purposely enabled by the Democrats.
Voter ID is ILLEGAL!
Investigating vote results by any no government entity is ILLEGAL!
Investigating any fraud as a citizen journalist is about to be ILLEGAL!
The Banana Republic of Californiastan is alive and well.
Grease Newsom will be eagerly trying to make America like California.
Give him a house and senate majority, and you can count on it.
Jeff's post gave me hope but seeing CA projections that votes won't be counted for days/weeks just reinforces the likelihood of massive fraud. Remember when Joe talked about his massive voter fraud organization? I think he made the mistake of being blatantly honest and the barn door quickly slammed shut afterward. But watching all of the smarminess is discouraging. I'm hoping it's one of Jeff's marvelous insights ala 1993 results.
The reason California's massive "voter fraud is beyond comprehension" is that it doesn't exist. Unless you mean it's like Maryland's half-million mail-in-ballot voter-fraud scandal. Oh wait, that didn't exist either - except in Trump's brain, but that also doesn't exist. So, never mind.
I left CA in the fall of 2009. I filled out the form to remove my name from the voter rolls. I didn't have a second thought about my voter registration in CA until primary season for the 2020 election. Facebook gave me a "badge" congratulating me for 25 years of continuous voting in my old CA county. I had not voted in CA for 12 years. I did some digging. Yes, *I* had voted for the past 12 years I was not in CA and it wasn't me casting the ballot. The county elections office claimed that I only changed my mailing address and I still lived at the address I used to live at. I finally convinced the county that I actually didn't live there and I lived out of state at my mailing address. They said that they would take me off of the voter rolls- after the 2020 election. Oh, and I registered republican a year before I left CA, after being a lifelong registered democrat. My voter registration was democrat thru the 2020 election. So don't tell me that voter fraud does not happen in CA.
Our 30+ year old son has not lived here in CO for over 10 years. We still receive a ballot for him, even tho he reregistered in HI. I think about how many of those type ballots are out there every time his arrives.
The ultra-über-far-right Heritage Foundation maintains a nationwide database of actual voter fraud. A few months ago the database contained 99 instances of ineligible voting since 1982. The HF website currently shows 71 cases in California, which has more than 23 million registered voters. (And I just wasted 2 minutes of my life relating common knowledge to certain group of people who reject facts in favor of Trumpian falsehoods.)
Is this convicted voter fraud? If convicted, that is the reason it is so rare. States don't go looking for voter fraud. If you don't look, it never happened.
Thanks for proving my parenthetical point. BTW, among convictions for voter fraud are Trumpers; it just breaks my heart that you folks insist on voting illegally.
I'd love to see the evidence you have to support your statement - like audits you have conducted; your contemporaneous notes of the voter rolls you have checked against live resident voters; your detailed analysis of dead people still on the rolls; your investigation of anomalies described in the comments herein (such as no longer living in the state and still receiving ballots); and, any other audits or inspections you have done. If you have done none of the above, then you're just blowing your O ring and hoping no one investigates more deeply.
If the races proceed to the general election, the November elections can be watched more closely by the feds since US representative elections are happening.
Former Californian who went through hell to get my name OFF the register after I moved. They make it HARD to pull that vote away.. Tell someone to start with who doesnt even live in CA any more.
Last I heard they were not going to be up and running for two or three years. And each one is projected to cost more than the asking price of several existing grocery stores in NYC that are going concerns and are for sale. Ah, Socialism!
They announced the plan for the first one to be built. They have a site in harlem and are predicting a cost of $30 million. I'm not kidding. The NY Post has been covering it.
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
When Jesus said that believers would come to Him for water, He was referring to Isaiah 12:2, 3, which speaks of Jesus (Yashua) prophetically, saying,
2 Behold, God is my salvation [Heb: “Yashua”], I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God [Yah Yahweh] is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation [“Yashua”]. 3 Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation [“Yashua”]
Isaiah thus prophesied by the Spirit that those who put their trust in Yashua (Jesus) would “joyously draw water from the springs of Yashua.” This is how the literal Hebrew text reads, and Jesus knew that this was prophetic of Himself.
The original Smith-Mundt Act was not repealed; instead, it was amended by the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2013. This 2013 change lifted a decades-old ban that prohibited the U.S. government from distributing media content (such as Voice of America broadcasts) intended for foreign audiences within the United States.
Imagine if you knew someone that hated themselves so much they wouldn’t celebrate their own birthday. They thought of themselves as an evil, racist, horribly bigoted person. When they hit milestone birthdays like 40, 50, 60 they not only wouldn’t celebrate them they wanted others to hate that day and be miserable.
For me, I wouldn’t want to be around a person like that, certainly not live with them. It’s a kind of suicidal sadomasochist existence. When you hate yourself with such passion you thrive on that hate.
Imagine hating your own country this way. These self loathing suicidal sociopaths are saying Americans are not worthy of celebrating our founding. No country on earth has 40% of its citizens that detest it the way democrats do. This historically is what communist revolutionaries do, erase a countries history. If this proves one thing it’s Liberalism is a mental disorder!
"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children." —Malcolm X
"We will get you through your children." —Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
"The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children." —Dr. James Dobson
"Give me four years to teach the children and the see i have sown will never be uprooted." —Lenin (Allegedly)
Soon, Pol Pot's American brood will be turning in their parents... Should we collectively fail to rise to this challenge. And then the floodgates will open, right now they're just groaning and leaking very badly:
"Normalize every aberrant behavior, bring common all deviancy and let fly the reins of morality and reason, then welcome in that utopia that liberals embrace called communism, that which most Americans with but a shard of ethic would immediately recognize as evil." —judahbenhuer
"There is the moral of all human tales:
'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory—when that fails,
Wealth, vice, corruption—barbarism at last.
And History, with all her volumes vast,
Hath but ONE page" —Lord Byron
What one generation tolerates, then next will embrace. And then in the next, no one will remember it was a sin in the first place.
And don’t ever let them make you believe THEY don’t believe the Bible to be true wisdom. They most certainly do. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
And that is why they target our kids. They know this verse to be true.
I walked past a father and his child in a grocery store the other day. The child (boy, maybe four) was sitting in the cart, whining loudly about wanting something on the shelf where dad was looking. Dad looked at child and said without an ounce of sarcasm "your listening ears aren't working very well right now, are they?" And the kid just continued to point and whine. "They" may be targeting kids, but the kids parents/caregivers/friends/roommates, whatever they are inclusively called today, are clearly helping, to the best of their ability. It made me sad, then angry, then just sick.
True. When I went to school and then college there were WWII and Korean vets as teachers and professors. My mentor in college who wrote letters of recommendation to grad schools flew B17 over Germany. Today’s kids are taught by the kids and grand kids of hippy scum of of the 60’s and 70’s.
not all teachers are those that you suggest, but they are silenced by group think and held captive by government policy and job security, as are many Unionized workers. The Unions are large arms of the Communist Borg!
having recently escaped from the education complex, i can assure you that there are damn few decent teachers left. anyone who got a teaching credential in the last 30 years has been poisoned. stop defending these people. the teachers are every bit as guilty as the unions at this point.
Yeah my daughter has a degree in education but she only taught a few years. Hasn’t taught in probably 25 years. It varies a lot depending on which state you live in on how bad the teachers are and if they aren’t unionized.
It is easy to sit on the sidelines, comfortably retired and pass judgment on those still in the battle, or biding their time so as to not lose their pensions. The harder, more honest assessment requires knowledge of human frailty and the ability to imagine oneself confronted with the same dilemma. Give up job security and the children you are about or stay in the belly of the beast and do your best to add value to the lives of your pupils.
I don't have to imagine a thing. I was there. I pass judgement on people I know very well. They could not be motivated to push back against the unions. WAY too many of them biding their time. So, I went into the the tech industry where people get promoted based on performance and not merely how long one has been breathing in place. IF the teachers as a whole really valued the children they are teaching, they would never have allowed all this nonsense going on in schools. But there they are, marching proudly behind Wiengarten and Pringle to keep kids out of school for way too long, telling kids its brave to want to mutilate their bodies, and all other manner of ills. Meanwhile, almost no public schools can get the kids to read and write or do math. "Human frailty" is no excuse for what our schools have become.
This just in…In a stunning declaration, Stephen Miller unveiled a plan to reform U.S. education, emphasizing teaching children to love America and be patriots, while ensuring federal funds do not support "communist ideology." This is part of Trump's agenda to counter "woke culture." America still has hope 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I told hubs the other day that we need to give all the America Haters free tickets to Zimbabwe. And give them 2K each to start their new life there. FREE!!
Right? Illegals who self-deport get a chance to come back the right way, but traitorous citizens should have known better and should not be allowed a way back. Ever. Once you extract a disease you don’t put it back into the body.
Zimbabwe is a place where banks are not safe and you have to keep your cash in your home or on your person. There are No benefits. Zim may give them the illusion of freedom, but they are not free. China and N. Korea say “you are not free!” Zim doesn’t say it out loud. Sad situation there.
America has 'created' a metastizing class of neer-do-well 'scribes' and expert$ whose primary function is to create and fortify an unreal world.
Namely, manipulatable bio-robots whose divorce from Nature bears horrific consequences, both inner and outer.
Thus ensared in such samsara, these soul-haters begin to hate real life, hate God, hate themselves and can only feel alive by shitting on the higher, saner calling of those who are God centered.
I once had a girlfriend who had attended an extremely woke university. Her ideas about sex were revolting and, as she described it, standard where she got indoctrinated.
The relationship collapsed when she got an inkling of what mine are.
There's that wonderful, old [fictional] story about the great Leonardo Da Vinci that I love that goes like this: The 'Last Supper' took the master artisan several years to complete, so during this extended period he decided to use live models for Christ and each of the twelve Apostles. He chose the model for Jesus first, when he found a man whose face radiated both beauty and unconditional love.
As the years went on Leonardo completed each of the Apostles except for Judas Iscariot. Finally, he found a man whose face seemed full of avarice, viciousness, deceit, and hypocrisy. After he finished painting the man as Judas, the man asked if Leonardo knew who he was. When Leonardo said no, the man replied, "I am the same man you painted years ago as the figure of Christ."
Now while this story is almost certainly fiction it does reveal a spiritual truth. No matter how old or young we are, the appearance of our faces can often show the condition of our souls. I have seen rugged, scarred, weather-beaten faces that when they smiled still shown with the beauty of angels. I have also seen young, wrinkle free faces with eyes as cold as ice and bitter smiles full of both cunning and hate.
The good news, however, is that it is never too late to change your face, your heart, and your life. It is never too late to fill your soul with love and let it shine through your eyes and actions. It is never too late to turn your anger creases into laugh lines.
I only hope that my own face no matter how old or wrinkled it gets is always the face of goodwill, a reflection of God's affection for us all, and may your own life always sparkle with grace and Jesus as the initial version of that man in Leonardo's masterpiece.
TriTorch… thank you for sharing this beautiful Joseph J. Mazzella story… unfortunately experiencing a kind of personal homeowners poly crisis this week, the “no matter how old or wrinkled (my face) it gets… is always the face of goodwill, and may your own life always be the face of goodwill, a reflection of God’s affection for all of us….” This sentence, Blessed me humbly and deeply. Gratitude for sharing 💞
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
I didn’t even notice who posted this, but the last paragraph I thought “This has GOT to be TriTorch”. I scrolled back up and sho’nuff, ‘Tis you! And I love it!!!!
Although I’ve not become a whining complainer when I worship the Lord, I have become over the past several years a “praying begger.”
I pray, and beg, every night and day for God to put in place what is needed for good men (and women) to step up and defeat this infestation of evil and lunacy that has overtaken the entire world. It is a world I no longer recognize as having any sanity or moral character or justice. There is no country to run to and America has been corrupted by the godless and evil.
As a Nevadan who fled the golden state during covid-I pray the Lord intervenes and uses the unlikely Spencer Pratt to fill the position of Mayor of LA. It really would be a miracle because everyone knows how Dems win elections. But we have a God who is abundantly able to do more than we could ever hope or dream of, amen? (Eph 3:20) Keep praying!🙏🏻
Who knows? If California takes yet another Blue bullet, the ensuing chaos ALSO strengthens the hand of the sane and righteous.
In God's world EVERYONE has the freedom to leave the satanic mess.
(Some of us are more free than others, but that's part of His plan as well. I often ponder the Jews who didn't escape in time. Many of them were entrenched in life in a good way ... businesses, culture, etc. Such folks paid - and are paying - a heavy price for all the goodies they've enjoyed.)
Good that you got out.
In my own case, I was primed to ditch my beloved NYC in March of 2020. I had thrived there.
I read a very interesting post in a foodie group on Facebook this morning.
The anonymous poster was upset that the owner of a local restaurant has apparently been targeting the white employees and firing them for the least little issue. The other employees are “immigrants” (poster didn’t specify legal or illegal) and apparently too afraid of being fired to complain, so the owner exploits them. Their plan seems to be to get rid of all of the “uppity” employees who ask to be treated decently and keep only the ones that can be used and exploited because they’re too scared to complain or to quit. I so wanted to comment that this is very typical, and anyone who is for illegal immigration or even certain kinds of legal immigration, is either benefiting from the exploitation somehow, or is a useful idiot being manipulated to enable that exploitation. Not to mention the harms to the local workforce who can’t compete with that.
Anyway, I thought it was an interesting exposure of yet another reason why we need to regulate immigration better and get rid of the illegals and exploitive visa programs.
No because I never comment in that group. I only use it for information because tbh, some of the commenters can be pretty nasty even about relatively trivial things, and I don’t need that in my life.
Praying for you Porge. That our Lord holds you and your husband in His loving arms and shields you from evil. I also pray for the conversion of your sister in law. 🙏
The Homeless Industry and housing illegals in hotels and apartments when working legal citizens are struggling to find reasonable places to rent is the bigger issue that will likely swing the tide. That and the blatant grift by immigrant communities created and supported by the Democrats!
I would like to think that, just as the nation anxiously watched the "hanging chads" drama in Florida, it will closely watch LA and California. We found out the left's tricks in 2020 and will, I believe, deploy pre-emptive measures to ensure no 3AM bumps like cheating Joe had. Or we won't, and we will find that this IS 1989, not 1993, the boulder will fall, and eventually all those blue-haired harridans will enjoy consequences.
The fraudulent counting "tricks" were thrown in everyone's face in 2020 and in numerous other State and local elections. So what? Who of any significance has been indicted and convicted?
The (intentional) lack of punishment enables to fraud to continue. LA elections will be no different.
It is a whole of Govt benefit if the elections can be "managed" in whichever way is necessary. Each Branch benefits from selections, not elections.
Actually, that is the typical MO here in Californistan, however, Pratt has too wide an audience for the shenanigans to be applied without a massive uprising of the people! I'm not saying riots and thieving like the Democrats unleash as threats and to celebrate Sporting wins. I'm saying, awake and now vigilant legal citizen voters, coming of political age and knowledge of the vote steal! Young people tend to look for justice and don't like to be bested on their own dime!
What's going on with Substack? Is there a censorship algorithm at work here? As I scroll through the comments, I find three comments that have been "hidden", whatever that means, and can't be seen in the original thread: one comment from TriTorch, one from CK and another from Phil Denter. I ran into this yesterday when I posted a comment very late in the day which subsequently disappeared and was "hidden".
Looking for commonality with these "hidden" comments, I concluded that while all were civil, the comments could be uncomfortable for some people. Seriously... are we going here now????
Learned after this happened that there is a new policy: Reply Rules automatically hide comments and note replies that break your community standards — without deleting them or notifying the commenter. Available on the web version of your Substack and the Substack app.
Oh great! Just what we need. Some idiot making up arbitrary "community standards" us plebs who can't think for ourselves must abide by. Dollars to donuts, this comment gets "hidden" too.
Yeah, anything critical that could be related to Trump. Apparently, we are not allowed to criticize Emperor POTUS. The next six months are going to get interesting.
Big Pharmakeia is no relation to Trump? Are you sure? [Note: I ask because Trump partnered with Pfizer CEO and accused mass-murderer Albert Bourla on their TrumpRx.]
What makes you think there will be a "next election" in NYC? The amount of rigging is unbelievable and the GOP does nothing to fight it. City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino could have stopped Mamdani--running Sliwa then endorsing Cuomo was worse than a crime...it was a blunder. NY GOP did the same thing in Long Island with Santos, abandoning him and then running an unelectable candidate instead! They're not that smart, probably on the Democratic payroll--after all they allowed Bloomberg to run as a Republican and turn over the city to crypto-Communist De Blasio. NY GOP is just no damn good, IMHO.
The entire northeast Republican Party is no damn good. I lived in the ONLY Republican Congressional District in Connecticut and what did the STATE Republican Party do?they combined us w Waterbury thereby destroying a Republican district. Now state is run by Dems and we will NEVER get an R again
There is HUGE economic inertia there. They're still building billion dollar skyscrapers and it remains a massive destination for the ambitious. AND ... the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
As the global center of all things good and evil, NYC - karmic ally - has a great deal of reckoning on the horizon. Only God knows the timeline and the scale.
What happened is that the wealthy had their taxes lowered (and we workers had ours raised), plus the financialization of the economy. They stopped regulation of the S&Ls in the first wave of banks robbing the people we had. That was amateur hour compared to the handing over of billions to Wall Street we've had since 2008. At least back then they prosecuted some S&L scum (not Neil Bush, though). Now, they get away with any crimes.
We went from a productive economy, in which the working class made good wages, to a financial economy, where factories were moved, unions destroyed, and the wealth of the country moved to New York financial centers.
The more stores boarded up in middle America, the more skyscrapers raised in NYC.
The first effect of the change was the beginning of homelessness. As the wealthy prospered they invested in real estate. My rent in SF went from $295 a month to $650 a month. I'm sure that same apartment is renting for thousands by now.
We never saw homeless before the 80s, but now they are considered normal, a fact of life. They are in every town, not just NYC.
I'm guessing that what Rudy did was sweep the poor out of NYC. I know that I left San Francisco.
Indeed, and perhaps the most outrageous symbol is all the supertall condo buildings. They constitute a glaring and thumb nose to the rest of us. As I'm sure you know, many are sold, but uninhabited. Dreary mausoleums of capital.
And many of them, in New York and elsewhere are facing huge engineering and construction flaws.
If it’s up to Mamdani New York is getting and going to get exactly what he said he was going to give it, communism/socialism. And if LA and California again votes in the bus driver that’s doing his best to commit suicide and drive off the cliff California will fall. Without a drastic change they are destined to fall.
We're in the same boat here in Seattle, which has been subjected to one party rule for so long that most of the people living here have never seen a Republican Mayor...
And they just elected a 42 year old self proclaimed Socialist as Mayor, who has never actually had a full time job and whose Leftist college professor parents were still subsidizing her rent/childcare costs! (She has a husband but he's collecting welfare while he tries to perfect his bagel recipe 🙄)
Mayor Katie is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. She famously "waved" goodbye to the millionaire class rapidly departing the state before the next statewide income taxes kick in, she is refusing to turn on the CCTV cameras for FIFA in two weeks, in violation of the law, and she thinks it's no big deal that Starbucks is moving their headquarters to Nashville because the business climate here is so bad!
Maybe just maybe, it will finally get bad enough for a sane moderate to have a chance...but unfortunately, probably not!
Ah, the good old days with David Dinkins as mayor. The lovely stroll I used to take from the Port Authority bus terminal through Times Square- peep shows and hookers on every corner - stepping over bums, urinating on themselves, one time slipping on a puddle of blood after a murder, I kid you not. Being aggressively panhandled 10+ times before I could get to my job at 1221 Avenue of the Americas (formerly the McGraw-Hill building- now showcased as "Runway" HQ in the Devil wears Prada 2). I lasted 3 years there before fleeing. My sister brought me back under Giuliani administration and Times Square looked like Disney World. For the love of God I hope Angelenos wake up and also that Thune is removed... there's some kind of controlled demolition going on preventing the SAVE America act from becoming law. For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and the whole world.
Wow what a contrast between Dinkins and Giuliani admins! I mean, I knew about how bad it was in the 80s because I lived upstate at the time, but the details you gave really highlight the terrible state NYC was in then.
I totally believe it! This is why my parents, on the rare occasions that they visited the city, refused to take us kids with them. I never even got to go until I was an adult in my late 30s (partly because I lived farther away as an adult, otherwise I might have gone a little sooner).
I remember being flown to interviews for jobs out of college - San Jose & San Francisco - and one in LA, in 1988. It was my second time walking around in CA big cities (first time was Huntington Beach and Venice Beach near LA in 1983.) In the evening (like 8/9 pm) I had to step over passed out drunks on the sidewalk outside of countless strip clubs lit up lining the streets. The clubs weren’t noticeable during the day at all. But at night it was like Vegas suddenly appeared. Passed out people were everywhere, it was so gross. I was too naive and so I snapped a pic of one guy just lying on his face/stomach, out cold, on the stoop of one such business. I remember the guy I traveled with from my grad class was laughing, but still pulling me quickly away and saying we needed to get out of there. (I was basically a living, breathing Barbie doll in those years, so most definitely not safe on my own.) But it didn’t “feel” dangerous, and I have a pretty good sixth sense for danger. There were no riotous thugs or dangerous characters lurking, just hoards and hoards of drunks (druggies? 🤷🏼♀️) and disgusting filthy businesses catering to them all. So that was before 1989/1993!
Californian here. The amount of voter fraud is beyond comprehension. Mass mail-in ballots. No voter ID (It's actually illegal to ask for ID!). Mysterious ballot dumps, and zero for one particular candidate? Nothing to see here! Dems aren't even trying to hide it. They just pass a "stop Nick Shirley" law instead. Nothing to see here.
Also a Californian. I feel completely helpless and frustrated with the voting here in California. I know there’s cheating going on and wondering if our Federal government will step in and stop it. We’re the perfect example of why the SAVE act needed to pass; also not looking likely 😫
The USAG is watching the vote counting closely. So it might get interesting.
Bill Essayli is US AG for central CA. He’s young & impressive- Find & watch his interview with Marissa Streit of Prager U. https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/meet-first-assistant-us-attorney
He was my Assemblyman before Trump took him away.......well I can sacrifice for my Country, he really pisses off the right people!
What area of central?
Yes. The local DMV’s of California, Oregon and Washington are automatically enrolling to vote any person who gets a driver’s license, ID card or changes address (Motor Voter Laws). Further, the Secretary of State’s are not requiring proof of citizenship from the DMV when those individuals records are transferred. This, along with 100% mail in voting, is a cleverly designed structural system that must be dismantled in future.
Something outside of California has to dismantle it. The Dems control everything in this state and of course, they won't change anything unless forced somehow.
SCOTUS is about to rule whether mail in ballots that arrive after Election Day can be counted (Watson vs. Republican National Committee). Hearings already occurred in March. It will have impact on 14 States for the upcoming general. If majority Supreme’s say no-go to ballots received after Election Day, it’s a start in the correct direction.
The fact that this is even allowed defies belief, and shows just how far D’s have gone to ensure they remain in power, forever, in these jurisdictions.
Me too. It’s like voting for change in North Korea.
Let's be 100% crystal clear, mail in balloting was created for one reason and one reason only, to ensure the outcome. Period. Full Stop.
Wanna talk about cross over moments? When will there be enough cross over voters who stop using mail in ballots and go to the polls on election day, preventing them from having the month they need to change, dump ballots. When will there be enough cross over politicians who will stop the criminal theft of elections, never, because they are the ones who stay in power with wholesale mail in ballot fraud. California would not be "deep blue" without mail in ballot fraud. And they have spread it to other places like Arizona and coming soon to a state where you reside.
But the mail ins may not be to real voters. That’s the point. Has to be outlawed.
We no longer have polls to go to in Washington State, it is all mail-in ballots only.
Mrs. "the Knife"
That’s because they want to ensure the voice of the people will never be heard. Do you think your state runs legitimate elections, that there is not wholesale mail in ballot fraud?
Why did you let your legislature do that? Its your (Citizens) election, not theirs. Doesn’t your state constitution require the consent of the people to change how elections are conducted?
Oh, no, we know there is all kinds of fraud going on - they mastered the whole "keep counting until the Dems get the result they want" with the Dino Rossi-Christine Gregoire governor's race.
Citizens do take these things to court for being unconstitutional, but the "Seattle Supreme Court" always throws them out, or rules against whatever citizen group has brought the suit.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Oh no, I didn't know it had gotten that bad anywhere!
Respectfully, where do you live, what state? Arizona?
Do you understand we are a 60-40 (Con to lib) country and yet are told we are 50-50? Its part of the gaslighting sold to us continuously so they can steal elections.
I'm in Arizona. Couldn't take California anymore, sold out and left over 30 years ago. But now as citizens flee from there, we fear they will "Californicate" our state.
Colorado is the "Gold Standard" for mail-in balloting. Whoever seizes the gold sets the standard
I would be liking a lot of these comments if only my like button worked…😩
I can hit “like” once, then I have to refresh the comment section and find my place before I can “like” again.
Me too
I thought it was just me that couldn’t like comments. It’s very tiresome
Same here.
Have you tried reading as a web page and not on the Substack app?
I have avoided the app and use Firefox and don't have tis problem.
Yeah it’s been real hinky lately.
Me too
Why is this happening to us?
I wish I knew!!
Log into your Substack account (I just stay logged in). It should all work then, does for me.
Check your browser's "extensions". (I'm talking through my hat here, but I heard someone who played an IT guy on teevee say it one time.) Sometimes "extensions" affect behavior of some tabs.
Mines been acting up lately too!
Are you on a PC? First Clear your cache ctrl+F5. no joy? Restart browser. no joy?
Update browser. reboot computer.
Telephone: Android: reboot, if no joy, then update your browser to latest version.
Apple? I can't help you.
Trump says he’s siccing the US attorney in LA on them. Starting an investigation.
But is the US Attorney in LA even any good?
I feel it's kind of hopeless that any investigation can reveal ballot fraud. The first thing they do is separate the ballot from the signed envelope, and after doing that, all they have is a pile of ballots. You have no way to prove a ballot is a real voter or not. And I just heard someone say (Jesse Watters I think) that now at least in L.A. they will not allow you to challenge the signature on the envelope even when it is clearly fake.
As expected, although Steve Hilton was ahead and Spencer Pratt in L.A. was ahead, guess what? By today, over 3 days after the polls "closed", that scum Becerra and the despicable Karen Bass are "suddenly surging ahead." Big surprise.
We have to get rid of the RINOS first... stay with Thune!!!!!
Deb… “Stay with Thune”? Or “Start” with Thune?
I vote the latter.. get rid of Thune.
We should probably suspect that one goal is to make cheating apparent just enough to provoke frustration, then anger, then violence. Violence is evil's endgame. If it comes to that, evil must be thoroughly defeated. I hope we control our reactions and tread prayerfully.
That’s sad. 😔
Our Idaho dentist's son, who was in college in CA, was pulled in off the street when he walked by a voting precinct. The people in charge asked if he had voted. He told them he was not a resident of that state and went to pull out his Idaho ID. They stopped him and said "That doesn't matter! Come on in and vote. No ID needed!" So, with that in mind, a voter can just vote multiple times in one day at various precincts.
Great! Let's all go to California and vote!
Send me ballot in the mail!🤨😣
Me, too—send me 100!
Is that the ballot they showed us with the little window that tells you which ballot is republican so it can be disposed of?
Yes, they'll count them as "provisional ballots" are reviewed by hand, and most likely changed (to Dem candidate) by the person at the Registrars office....
What if Trump decided to troll them and paid for conservative voters to do just this?!
No kidding. I think that is a great idea! Road trip! “If anyone has ever wanted to see the once great state of California, November (insert election date here) would be a great day! And don’t forget to vote when you are there!”
I'll bring the spray-in blue hair dye and fake cow nose rings so they think we're one of them and don't suspect a thing 😁
😄 love it
Vote early, vote often....as the saying goes...
That is what the Dems do!
Democrats would draw up impeachment papers before he’d finished the sentence
I’ve got some time open next week. Can you ship me a few thousand California ballots to me here in Texas? I’ll throw a signing party, invite friends, we’ll all sign a bunch of ballots and mail them in
Order them by the thousands from China, just like the Dems did in the 2020 elections.... pre-filled in with only Biden
If you have a precinct that is open on election day! Last year, we voted early at one of the myriad of California's "Early Voting Center" locations. My husband used the machine to vote and I handed in my completed ballot. Curiously, the poll worker tried to get me to destroy my paper ballot and use the machine. Well, I didn't tell her, but that would have ruined our attempt to get at least one of our votes for Trump possibly counted.
As for the open precinct options for in-person voting on election day, there was not one available to me on Tuesday! In our city, a voter could only drop off a mail-in ballot at a minimal amount of locations throughout our city! So had I voted on Monday, or any of 11 days prior to the actual election, I could have cast my ballot in person, at multiple/10 to twenty locations, but not on the actual day of the election! That is how it it works now in California, at least in my Bay Area County! Wow! just Wow!
Too expensive to man precincts the day of? That can't be the answer, because they have the money and staffing to offer thousands of "Early Voting" locations for 11 days prior! So, could it be that the traditional wisdom is that Republican voters tend to be traditional and prefer to vote the day of the actual election, so....?
Money can’t be the reason. Polling places are volunteers. We did it in our garage one year right here in CALI
How about a free Krispy Kreme for every voter brought in off the street? It is a safe and effective way to get all the votes.
Ink the thumb is how it’s done in other countries.
AND MOST NEED TO SHOW ID...
🥺 wow
Wow!
🥺 wow
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Re: the "stop Nick Shirley" law.
Reminds me of the "prosecute David Daleiden" case that then-A.G. Kamala Harris, followed by her successor, then-A.G. Xavier Becerra, prosecuted.
David Daleiden exposed and documented felonies being committed by abortion giant Planned Parenthood. So Harris and Becerra prosecuted... Daleiden. They did not investigate nor prosecute Planned Parenthood's felonies, they arrested and prosecuted the guy who REPORTED on the felonies!
Tina Peters followed protocol in logging irregularities in the Colorado voting system during the 2020 election. Of course she was the one punished for it.
It was a psyop. She never went to jail and neither did Bannon or Peter Navarro. It's just a story the media told us. None of it is real. Tina Peters is and has been protected by Patriots. How else did she get on War Room at 6am Mountain time on the day she was released. Did they release her at 3am? No. It was a psyop
Gonna need some documents and evidence - otherwise, your comment SEEMS to minimize evidence of the real suffering and injustice she bore. I realize that is likely not your intention.
There is 10 years of evidence. But you must do your own research. Top Anons to follow are Joe Rambo, DaveNewsTreason, Stormy Patriot Joe, X22, AndWeKnow and many others. Q is real. But we all have to do our own research. The evidence is beyond overwhelming if you do your due diligence.
As far as Tina Peters, explain how she was on War Room at 6am on the day she was 'released". Makes no sense. Plus, Bannon walked out of 'Jail" fat and with a dark tan. Impossible if he was in jail.
Navarro went straight to Club 47 on day he was "released". Not home. To a club. Sure. It's all psyops on top of psyops and the Q drops laid it all out years ago. People who know about Q were wrongly smeared for a decade. We'll have the last laugh.
Keep repeating that - it lets everyone know just how out of touch with reality democrats can be.
But I've give you ONE chance to come back to reality. The Colorado governor reduced her sentence. He said her sentence was an outlier. Many democrats were outraged and said she should stay. Republicans believe she was in prison. There was video of her in prison.
If you believe this, you will be there ALL BY YOURSELF.
The democrats actually censored him for that. They must have been so pissed! 😂😂
This NEEDS to be remembered! Thanks Kathy 👍
I actually wonder if this is the election we are enough pissed off people will care and finally see the bullshit that happens with the vote counting that perhaps that can get addressed. Especially with the nonsense going on in LA.
I know that many people are pissed off, but it still seems that a great many are totally clueless about anything going on. They just don't follow politics OR the news. In California, a pathetically low number of eligible people bother to vote. Another thing I hear from younger people (under 40) is that they believe their vote is largely meaningless and that all politicians are thieving crooks. They're pretty negative.
They asked for my name and verified my address when I voted on Tuesday. The very odd thing was,I received a mail in ballot,but,I always vote in person. I did not bring my ballot with me and no one asked me if I had one. They just printed up the 2 new ballots. I certainly could have voted twice by mailing in …
Yep. I have no confidence at all. My adult son changed his address and they sent one to his new address and one to our address. Others have told the same or similar stories. Lots of extra ballots in the mail. The mail-in ballots are killing us.
Here in California, where ballots outnumber eligible voting citizens, the avenues to ensure a Democrat always win statewide elections are vast, wide, and purposely enabled by the Democrats.
Voter ID is ILLEGAL!
Investigating vote results by any no government entity is ILLEGAL!
Investigating any fraud as a citizen journalist is about to be ILLEGAL!
The Banana Republic of Californiastan is alive and well.
Grease Newsom will be eagerly trying to make America like California.
Give him a house and senate majority, and you can count on it.
You watch. Bass will "win" this thing walking away.
These people, given all they've shown they're willing to do, are not about to lose something this important.
The tide will turn for Bass just like it did for Biden. Magically, after midnight.
Jeff's post gave me hope but seeing CA projections that votes won't be counted for days/weeks just reinforces the likelihood of massive fraud. Remember when Joe talked about his massive voter fraud organization? I think he made the mistake of being blatantly honest and the barn door quickly slammed shut afterward. But watching all of the smarminess is discouraging. I'm hoping it's one of Jeff's marvelous insights ala 1993 results.
do they still ask for ID to buy a beer with dinner?
The reason California's massive "voter fraud is beyond comprehension" is that it doesn't exist. Unless you mean it's like Maryland's half-million mail-in-ballot voter-fraud scandal. Oh wait, that didn't exist either - except in Trump's brain, but that also doesn't exist. So, never mind.
I left CA in the fall of 2009. I filled out the form to remove my name from the voter rolls. I didn't have a second thought about my voter registration in CA until primary season for the 2020 election. Facebook gave me a "badge" congratulating me for 25 years of continuous voting in my old CA county. I had not voted in CA for 12 years. I did some digging. Yes, *I* had voted for the past 12 years I was not in CA and it wasn't me casting the ballot. The county elections office claimed that I only changed my mailing address and I still lived at the address I used to live at. I finally convinced the county that I actually didn't live there and I lived out of state at my mailing address. They said that they would take me off of the voter rolls- after the 2020 election. Oh, and I registered republican a year before I left CA, after being a lifelong registered democrat. My voter registration was democrat thru the 2020 election. So don't tell me that voter fraud does not happen in CA.
Our 30+ year old son has not lived here in CO for over 10 years. We still receive a ballot for him, even tho he reregistered in HI. I think about how many of those type ballots are out there every time his arrives.
That is horrible! You are living proof of it! I bet you get so mad when people blow off voter fraud, I sure would.
The ultra-über-far-right Heritage Foundation maintains a nationwide database of actual voter fraud. A few months ago the database contained 99 instances of ineligible voting since 1982. The HF website currently shows 71 cases in California, which has more than 23 million registered voters. (And I just wasted 2 minutes of my life relating common knowledge to certain group of people who reject facts in favor of Trumpian falsehoods.)
Is this convicted voter fraud? If convicted, that is the reason it is so rare. States don't go looking for voter fraud. If you don't look, it never happened.
Thanks for proving my parenthetical point. BTW, among convictions for voter fraud are Trumpers; it just breaks my heart that you folks insist on voting illegally.
You really shouldn’t show how retarded you are with statements like this.
If there’s no voter fraud, then I’m sure you fully support Voter ID laws, right?
pass the bong, dude. you are high as a kite if you are not aware of the cheating in California. wow.
I have checked his site. He is strongly in favour of vaccines. I dare say he is fully boosted.
🙄😂😂😂
Lost in California. Wow.
This guy is proud of his retardation.
you too dumb
So how much were you paid for that lie?
Maybe he's just heavily vaccinated.
I'd love to see the evidence you have to support your statement - like audits you have conducted; your contemporaneous notes of the voter rolls you have checked against live resident voters; your detailed analysis of dead people still on the rolls; your investigation of anomalies described in the comments herein (such as no longer living in the state and still receiving ballots); and, any other audits or inspections you have done. If you have done none of the above, then you're just blowing your O ring and hoping no one investigates more deeply.
I did actually have to show ID to vote in person but several folks I know, including 4 from my house, had their mail in ballots never show.
Its so digusting KitKat and beyond frustrating. What can you do other than plea to God for new leadership.
If the races proceed to the general election, the November elections can be watched more closely by the feds since US representative elections are happening.
You don't understand. They are "good people" and you have no education. You can't be trusted with these serious decisions.
Former Californian who went through hell to get my name OFF the register after I moved. They make it HARD to pull that vote away.. Tell someone to start with who doesnt even live in CA any more.
Ballot boxes set on fire. That happened in Los Angeles.
Looks like Mamdani's "free public transportation" is the same option widely available in much of the US....... walking.
Would that be after midnight, out in the moonlight?
Well it ain’t walking in Memphis which is safer than NYC thanks to DJT and the National Guard.
They’ve got catfish on the table, they’ve got gospel in the air…
And in NYC you can't walk with your feet ten feet off of Beale.
Patsy Cline fan?
You'd be crazy for feeling that way, WTP.
Mom and Dad were fans, LOL.
Same. I gotta healthy dose of Cline on the regular =j
Didn't complain though, very nostalgic times.
And, simply, a beautiful voice.
Later Jay
Yup. Good days.
Whilst hearing a weeping willow crying on his pillow and wondering if he’s crying for me?
Imagine a world so safe that a song with lyrics about a heartbroken woman out walking after midnight would be credible and a big hit.
That was 1950s America. We’ve come a long way baby!
🎶 My walking shoes don’t fit me anymore “..
Maybe some boots made for walking would work better!
Now your talkin!
Ah, ya beat me to that Nancy Sinatra classic!
♥️
Yeah. Because getting on the subway these days is like playing a real life video game.
.... or Russian roulette!
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Which is by FAR the best way to move about Manhattan
WAS ... until approximately the end of the 1960s.
Oh noooo ... I lived there for 39 years ... 1981-2020.
I always always enjoyed walking.
"it" will take 3 weeks to determine the CA mayoral "race"
Election theft now as before. The Commander in Chief has not relented on
the patently obvious 2020 theft. Has all the receipts.
Pratt had enough after his dream life was burnt out in a few hours.
Angelinos are still in support of the Fidel inspired commie Bass?
Not a chance.
And whatever happened with the government grocery stores in NYC? I haven’t heard anything about that happening since the election.
Last I heard they were not going to be up and running for two or three years. And each one is projected to cost more than the asking price of several existing grocery stores in NYC that are going concerns and are for sale. Ah, Socialism!
They announced the plan for the first one to be built. They have a site in harlem and are predicting a cost of $30 million. I'm not kidding. The NY Post has been covering it.
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Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
— John 7:37-38 LSB
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Amen, Janice! Blessings to you and yours.
Well the “like” button isn’t working so thanks for the post. I LIKE it! 😘♥️
When Jesus said that believers would come to Him for water, He was referring to Isaiah 12:2, 3, which speaks of Jesus (Yashua) prophetically, saying,
2 Behold, God is my salvation [Heb: “Yashua”], I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God [Yah Yahweh] is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation [“Yashua”]. 3 Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation [“Yashua”]
Isaiah thus prophesied by the Spirit that those who put their trust in Yashua (Jesus) would “joyously draw water from the springs of Yashua.” This is how the literal Hebrew text reads, and Jesus knew that this was prophetic of Himself.
Not psyop propaganda.
When is propaganda not a psychological operation?
Redundant indeed.
Psyop added for 5th generation warfare approved by Congress with the Smith Mundt bill under Obama
They repealed the Smith Mundt Act, which had made it illegal to broadcast propaganda meant for foreigners in the US.
Later that year, they put out a budget to pay for propaganda, and that is when it really skyrocketed.
Follow the money.
Mrs. RW
Al:
The original Smith-Mundt Act was not repealed; instead, it was amended by the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2013. This 2013 change lifted a decades-old ban that prohibited the U.S. government from distributing media content (such as Voice of America broadcasts) intended for foreign audiences within the United States.
Thanks for the correction. I just they just gutted it, didn't repeal it.
Mrs. RW
Thanks RW.
Not certain have you the repeal link?
Off topic but from the same basket of traitors.
Imagine if you knew someone that hated themselves so much they wouldn’t celebrate their own birthday. They thought of themselves as an evil, racist, horribly bigoted person. When they hit milestone birthdays like 40, 50, 60 they not only wouldn’t celebrate them they wanted others to hate that day and be miserable.
For me, I wouldn’t want to be around a person like that, certainly not live with them. It’s a kind of suicidal sadomasochist existence. When you hate yourself with such passion you thrive on that hate.
Imagine hating your own country this way. These self loathing suicidal sociopaths are saying Americans are not worthy of celebrating our founding. No country on earth has 40% of its citizens that detest it the way democrats do. This historically is what communist revolutionaries do, erase a countries history. If this proves one thing it’s Liberalism is a mental disorder!
Here is how this happened James:
"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children." —Malcolm X
"We will get you through your children." —Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
"The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children." —Dr. James Dobson
"Give me four years to teach the children and the see i have sown will never be uprooted." —Lenin (Allegedly)
The Death of Truth & Education: Feelings Are So Much Easier to Control Than Facts: https://old.bitchute.com/video/mcTxxZDbSjtr [4:47mins]
Soon, Pol Pot's American brood will be turning in their parents... Should we collectively fail to rise to this challenge. And then the floodgates will open, right now they're just groaning and leaking very badly:
"Normalize every aberrant behavior, bring common all deviancy and let fly the reins of morality and reason, then welcome in that utopia that liberals embrace called communism, that which most Americans with but a shard of ethic would immediately recognize as evil." —judahbenhuer
"There is the moral of all human tales:
'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory—when that fails,
Wealth, vice, corruption—barbarism at last.
And History, with all her volumes vast,
Hath but ONE page" —Lord Byron
What one generation tolerates, then next will embrace. And then in the next, no one will remember it was a sin in the first place.
And don’t ever let them make you believe THEY don’t believe the Bible to be true wisdom. They most certainly do. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
And that is why they target our kids. They know this verse to be true.
I walked past a father and his child in a grocery store the other day. The child (boy, maybe four) was sitting in the cart, whining loudly about wanting something on the shelf where dad was looking. Dad looked at child and said without an ounce of sarcasm "your listening ears aren't working very well right now, are they?" And the kid just continued to point and whine. "They" may be targeting kids, but the kids parents/caregivers/friends/roommates, whatever they are inclusively called today, are clearly helping, to the best of their ability. It made me sad, then angry, then just sick.
True. When I went to school and then college there were WWII and Korean vets as teachers and professors. My mentor in college who wrote letters of recommendation to grad schools flew B17 over Germany. Today’s kids are taught by the kids and grand kids of hippy scum of of the 60’s and 70’s.
not all teachers are those that you suggest, but they are silenced by group think and held captive by government policy and job security, as are many Unionized workers. The Unions are large arms of the Communist Borg!
having recently escaped from the education complex, i can assure you that there are damn few decent teachers left. anyone who got a teaching credential in the last 30 years has been poisoned. stop defending these people. the teachers are every bit as guilty as the unions at this point.
Yeah my daughter has a degree in education but she only taught a few years. Hasn’t taught in probably 25 years. It varies a lot depending on which state you live in on how bad the teachers are and if they aren’t unionized.
It is easy to sit on the sidelines, comfortably retired and pass judgment on those still in the battle, or biding their time so as to not lose their pensions. The harder, more honest assessment requires knowledge of human frailty and the ability to imagine oneself confronted with the same dilemma. Give up job security and the children you are about or stay in the belly of the beast and do your best to add value to the lives of your pupils.
I don't have to imagine a thing. I was there. I pass judgement on people I know very well. They could not be motivated to push back against the unions. WAY too many of them biding their time. So, I went into the the tech industry where people get promoted based on performance and not merely how long one has been breathing in place. IF the teachers as a whole really valued the children they are teaching, they would never have allowed all this nonsense going on in schools. But there they are, marching proudly behind Wiengarten and Pringle to keep kids out of school for way too long, telling kids its brave to want to mutilate their bodies, and all other manner of ills. Meanwhile, almost no public schools can get the kids to read and write or do math. "Human frailty" is no excuse for what our schools have become.
Yes Tri-the largest terrorist organization in America…the Teachers Union…our president is trying to end it🙏
The press is the enemy
The press is the enemy
The press is the enemy
The establishment is the enemy
The establishment is the enemy
The establishment is the enemy
The professors are the enemy
The professors are the enemy
The professors are the enemy
Write it on a blackboard 100 times, and never forget it.
This just in…In a stunning declaration, Stephen Miller unveiled a plan to reform U.S. education, emphasizing teaching children to love America and be patriots, while ensuring federal funds do not support "communist ideology." This is part of Trump's agenda to counter "woke culture." America still has hope 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Our awesome SecWar Pete Hegseth wrote a book about it all: Battle for the American Mind. It is well worth a read!
Pete Hagueseth would be better off studying global geopolitics and warfare so he quits making idiotic decisions.
I love it!!! The teachers will hate it…
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270609612
I told hubs the other day that we need to give all the America Haters free tickets to Zimbabwe. And give them 2K each to start their new life there. FREE!!
Hell, make it 3. Plus a big boot to the backside.
And don’t allow them to come back!
Right? Illegals who self-deport get a chance to come back the right way, but traitorous citizens should have known better and should not be allowed a way back. Ever. Once you extract a disease you don’t put it back into the body.
Zimbabwe? Try North Korea. Or China.
Zimbabwe is a place where banks are not safe and you have to keep your cash in your home or on your person. There are No benefits. Zim may give them the illusion of freedom, but they are not free. China and N. Korea say “you are not free!” Zim doesn’t say it out loud. Sad situation there.
Don’t forget to throw in a wheelbarrow, they’ll need it to haul around their paper money.
The blame lies with technocracy.
America has 'created' a metastizing class of neer-do-well 'scribes' and expert$ whose primary function is to create and fortify an unreal world.
Namely, manipulatable bio-robots whose divorce from Nature bears horrific consequences, both inner and outer.
Thus ensared in such samsara, these soul-haters begin to hate real life, hate God, hate themselves and can only feel alive by shitting on the higher, saner calling of those who are God centered.
Very well analyzed.
When all ground has been swept away, and you have nothing solid left to stand on and no connection or anchor left to anything real, well:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit...?
I once had a girlfriend who had attended an extremely woke university. Her ideas about sex were revolting and, as she described it, standard where she got indoctrinated.
The relationship collapsed when she got an inkling of what mine are.
What you describe is not necessarily the result of a technocracy.
It's equally the result of people like Randi Weingarten controlling government schools for the past three decased or so.
Envy. Satan’s downfall.
New Yorkers should flood the streets by the thousands on that day.
Dr. Mike nailed it.
Tell me more. Who is Dr. Mike?
Dr Michael Savage. Genius, so far beyond most.
Michael savage. He only has three doctorates.
The Face Of Love, By Joseph J. Mazzella
There's that wonderful, old [fictional] story about the great Leonardo Da Vinci that I love that goes like this: The 'Last Supper' took the master artisan several years to complete, so during this extended period he decided to use live models for Christ and each of the twelve Apostles. He chose the model for Jesus first, when he found a man whose face radiated both beauty and unconditional love.
As the years went on Leonardo completed each of the Apostles except for Judas Iscariot. Finally, he found a man whose face seemed full of avarice, viciousness, deceit, and hypocrisy. After he finished painting the man as Judas, the man asked if Leonardo knew who he was. When Leonardo said no, the man replied, "I am the same man you painted years ago as the figure of Christ."
Now while this story is almost certainly fiction it does reveal a spiritual truth. No matter how old or young we are, the appearance of our faces can often show the condition of our souls. I have seen rugged, scarred, weather-beaten faces that when they smiled still shown with the beauty of angels. I have also seen young, wrinkle free faces with eyes as cold as ice and bitter smiles full of both cunning and hate.
The good news, however, is that it is never too late to change your face, your heart, and your life. It is never too late to fill your soul with love and let it shine through your eyes and actions. It is never too late to turn your anger creases into laugh lines.
I only hope that my own face no matter how old or wrinkled it gets is always the face of goodwill, a reflection of God's affection for us all, and may your own life always sparkle with grace and Jesus as the initial version of that man in Leonardo's masterpiece.
TriTorch… thank you for sharing this beautiful Joseph J. Mazzella story… unfortunately experiencing a kind of personal homeowners poly crisis this week, the “no matter how old or wrinkled (my face) it gets… is always the face of goodwill, and may your own life always be the face of goodwill, a reflection of God’s affection for all of us….” This sentence, Blessed me humbly and deeply. Gratitude for sharing 💞
By Roald Dahl
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
The premise of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey.
YEEESSSSS
Just look at how beautiful the faces of Downes Syndrome kids are 🥰
Indeed
I didn’t even notice who posted this, but the last paragraph I thought “This has GOT to be TriTorch”. I scrolled back up and sho’nuff, ‘Tis you! And I love it!!!!
I need more of you and less of myself. I’m getting angrier in my old age as I see what neer do wells are doing to the world.
Energy flows where focus goes my friend. And our focus is still something we control...
"Keep your thoughts positive because
your thought become YOUR WORDS.
Keep your words positive because your
words become YOUR BEHAVIOR
Keep your behavior positive because
your behavior becomes YOUR HABITS
Keep your habits positive because your
habits become YOUR VALUES
Keep your values positive because your
values become YOUR DESTINY —Ghandi
I pray for the Lord to help me be a grateful worshipper and not a whining complainer
Although I’ve not become a whining complainer when I worship the Lord, I have become over the past several years a “praying begger.”
I pray, and beg, every night and day for God to put in place what is needed for good men (and women) to step up and defeat this infestation of evil and lunacy that has overtaken the entire world. It is a world I no longer recognize as having any sanity or moral character or justice. There is no country to run to and America has been corrupted by the godless and evil.
Unless the kingdom of heaven invades the realm of men, we have no hope.
Which is why the revival going on in Stockton CA right now is a fascinating counterpoint to election news.
❤️❤️❤️
As a Nevadan who fled the golden state during covid-I pray the Lord intervenes and uses the unlikely Spencer Pratt to fill the position of Mayor of LA. It really would be a miracle because everyone knows how Dems win elections. But we have a God who is abundantly able to do more than we could ever hope or dream of, amen? (Eph 3:20) Keep praying!🙏🏻
Who knows? If California takes yet another Blue bullet, the ensuing chaos ALSO strengthens the hand of the sane and righteous.
In God's world EVERYONE has the freedom to leave the satanic mess.
(Some of us are more free than others, but that's part of His plan as well. I often ponder the Jews who didn't escape in time. Many of them were entrenched in life in a good way ... businesses, culture, etc. Such folks paid - and are paying - a heavy price for all the goodies they've enjoyed.)
Good that you got out.
In my own case, I was primed to ditch my beloved NYC in March of 2020. I had thrived there.
I read a very interesting post in a foodie group on Facebook this morning.
The anonymous poster was upset that the owner of a local restaurant has apparently been targeting the white employees and firing them for the least little issue. The other employees are “immigrants” (poster didn’t specify legal or illegal) and apparently too afraid of being fired to complain, so the owner exploits them. Their plan seems to be to get rid of all of the “uppity” employees who ask to be treated decently and keep only the ones that can be used and exploited because they’re too scared to complain or to quit. I so wanted to comment that this is very typical, and anyone who is for illegal immigration or even certain kinds of legal immigration, is either benefiting from the exploitation somehow, or is a useful idiot being manipulated to enable that exploitation. Not to mention the harms to the local workforce who can’t compete with that.
Anyway, I thought it was an interesting exposure of yet another reason why we need to regulate immigration better and get rid of the illegals and exploitive visa programs.
Afraid to complain about their low wages too, I imagine.
Yup exactly.
Agree 100%
The status of 'illegal' consigns folks into a terrible serfdom scenario, both economically and especially psychologically.
It puts me off dining out to be honest... it is rampant in the UK and Canada it seems...
Yeah it does give one pause 😕 Better to frequent establishments known for treating their employees well.
So did you rustle up a sack of courage and post that truthful observation?
I just tried to find the post to see if anyone had commented on it, and apparently it has been taken down. I can’t say that I am surprised by that.
No because I never comment in that group. I only use it for information because tbh, some of the commenters can be pretty nasty even about relatively trivial things, and I don’t need that in my life.
Vote RED if you want to be well fed, have a safe place to lay your head and not wind up dead 🇺🇸😄
Send that to Pratt to help with his campaign the next four months! 😆
😆
Great slogan 😂😁
Good morning C&C peeps! Pray 🙏 for me, my crazy sister inlaw is coming from out of town to stay with us for a week!!!!!😬😬😬
At least you have family members.
Mine have all ghosted me years ago.
There is the natal family ... and the spiritual one ... (I'm all set with the latter).
Same
Place a calendar week on the fridge. Each morning put a red X through the prior day. If asked simply say it’s a reminder of garbage pickup 😂😆
Too mean? Yeah, too mean. Lol
No Juju......not too mean!🤔😉
Praying!! 🙏
I will have to deal with my MIL soon so I hear you…
You have my sympathies RL!😉
Thank you! 😄
I feel your pain…….
Lol 😆, thanks C Stone! I'm checking vacancies at Motel 6 as we speak!
Good luck with that Porge!
Thanks Lori....any suggestions? 😆
Valium, lol (only kidding).
Herbal tea, walk in nature if she gets to be too much or take her to a meditation class where you can't talk!
Valium in HER tea.
Booyah SadieJay!
Oooo yeah! Thanks Sadie Jay!!!🤔
😂 😂 😂
Lol! Valium sounds good! ( " mother's little helper")🤣🤣....I think I'll just try to stay away from her as far as possible!😂
That works too but something tells me she will be following you around a lot. Egads....
Dang!! Lori....you must have met her before!
Have fun.
Praying for you Porge. That our Lord holds you and your husband in His loving arms and shields you from evil. I also pray for the conversion of your sister in law. 🙏
Thanks Karmy, but she is my wife's sister!😅🤣😂 appreciate your prayers very much! It can and has gotten pretty dicey in the past!🤞
Sorry Porge! Praying that you both make it out alive.
Lol! Thanks Karmy 👍
All that matters is who counts the votes and how they (fraudulently) count them.
It will take "weeks" to count the ballots.
Ballots are NOT the same as votes.
Bass wins with an 11th hour counting spree. You heard it here first.
I hope not.
Let us pray.
Probably can't be any worse than letting the city burn a la' Bass or doing nothing about the "mostly peaceful" protests.
The Homeless Industry and housing illegals in hotels and apartments when working legal citizens are struggling to find reasonable places to rent is the bigger issue that will likely swing the tide. That and the blatant grift by immigrant communities created and supported by the Democrats!
I would like to think that, just as the nation anxiously watched the "hanging chads" drama in Florida, it will closely watch LA and California. We found out the left's tricks in 2020 and will, I believe, deploy pre-emptive measures to ensure no 3AM bumps like cheating Joe had. Or we won't, and we will find that this IS 1989, not 1993, the boulder will fall, and eventually all those blue-haired harridans will enjoy consequences.
The fraudulent counting "tricks" were thrown in everyone's face in 2020 and in numerous other State and local elections. So what? Who of any significance has been indicted and convicted?
The (intentional) lack of punishment enables to fraud to continue. LA elections will be no different.
It is a whole of Govt benefit if the elections can be "managed" in whichever way is necessary. Each Branch benefits from selections, not elections.
Actually, that is the typical MO here in Californistan, however, Pratt has too wide an audience for the shenanigans to be applied without a massive uprising of the people! I'm not saying riots and thieving like the Democrats unleash as threats and to celebrate Sporting wins. I'm saying, awake and now vigilant legal citizen voters, coming of political age and knowledge of the vote steal! Young people tend to look for justice and don't like to be bested on their own dime!
Good morning C&C! Thanks be to God we are home safely! I wish everyone a blessed day.
Glad to hear you got back home safely!
As much as I enjoy the lake my heart is in the mountains.
What's going on with Substack? Is there a censorship algorithm at work here? As I scroll through the comments, I find three comments that have been "hidden", whatever that means, and can't be seen in the original thread: one comment from TriTorch, one from CK and another from Phil Denter. I ran into this yesterday when I posted a comment very late in the day which subsequently disappeared and was "hidden".
Looking for commonality with these "hidden" comments, I concluded that while all were civil, the comments could be uncomfortable for some people. Seriously... are we going here now????
Learned after this happened that there is a new policy: Reply Rules automatically hide comments and note replies that break your community standards — without deleting them or notifying the commenter. Available on the web version of your Substack and the Substack app.
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/49712271829012-What-are-Reply-Rules-on-Substack
Censorship has come to Substack.
Oh great! Just what we need. Some idiot making up arbitrary "community standards" us plebs who can't think for ourselves must abide by. Dollars to donuts, this comment gets "hidden" too.
So... Have you reviewed the three comments, including yours, that got hidden? What do you think is the common element that triggered the censorship?
BTW, here is the link to my comment yesterday that got hidden....
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/bugs-wednesday-june-3-2026-c-and/comment/270237165
Gender
Iran and Trump
And racism
Yesterday this comment was hidden on Steve Kirsch’s substack, it was about pharma controlling industry:
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/journal-editor-responds-to-my-letter/comment/270211979
Mr Kirsch unblocked it and said he had no idea why it was censored.
Given how broad these are, it is likely only to get far worse with time.
Yeah, anything critical that could be related to Trump. Apparently, we are not allowed to criticize Emperor POTUS. The next six months are going to get interesting.
Gender, racism, pharma aren’t related to Trump.
Big Pharmakeia is no relation to Trump? Are you sure? [Note: I ask because Trump partnered with Pfizer CEO and accused mass-murderer Albert Bourla on their TrumpRx.]
One from me too. Mine seemed perfectly reasonable. Substack is going stupid with its algorithms.
What makes you think there will be a "next election" in NYC? The amount of rigging is unbelievable and the GOP does nothing to fight it. City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino could have stopped Mamdani--running Sliwa then endorsing Cuomo was worse than a crime...it was a blunder. NY GOP did the same thing in Long Island with Santos, abandoning him and then running an unelectable candidate instead! They're not that smart, probably on the Democratic payroll--after all they allowed Bloomberg to run as a Republican and turn over the city to crypto-Communist De Blasio. NY GOP is just no damn good, IMHO.
The entire northeast Republican Party is no damn good. I lived in the ONLY Republican Congressional District in Connecticut and what did the STATE Republican Party do?they combined us w Waterbury thereby destroying a Republican district. Now state is run by Dems and we will NEVER get an R again
One thing about New York City:
There is HUGE economic inertia there. They're still building billion dollar skyscrapers and it remains a massive destination for the ambitious. AND ... the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
As the global center of all things good and evil, NYC - karmic ally - has a great deal of reckoning on the horizon. Only God knows the timeline and the scale.
Everyone talks about how horrible the 80s were.
What happened is that the wealthy had their taxes lowered (and we workers had ours raised), plus the financialization of the economy. They stopped regulation of the S&Ls in the first wave of banks robbing the people we had. That was amateur hour compared to the handing over of billions to Wall Street we've had since 2008. At least back then they prosecuted some S&L scum (not Neil Bush, though). Now, they get away with any crimes.
We went from a productive economy, in which the working class made good wages, to a financial economy, where factories were moved, unions destroyed, and the wealth of the country moved to New York financial centers.
The more stores boarded up in middle America, the more skyscrapers raised in NYC.
The first effect of the change was the beginning of homelessness. As the wealthy prospered they invested in real estate. My rent in SF went from $295 a month to $650 a month. I'm sure that same apartment is renting for thousands by now.
We never saw homeless before the 80s, but now they are considered normal, a fact of life. They are in every town, not just NYC.
I'm guessing that what Rudy did was sweep the poor out of NYC. I know that I left San Francisco.
Mrs. RW
Indeed, and perhaps the most outrageous symbol is all the supertall condo buildings. They constitute a glaring and thumb nose to the rest of us. As I'm sure you know, many are sold, but uninhabited. Dreary mausoleums of capital.
And many of them, in New York and elsewhere are facing huge engineering and construction flaws.
It's fun to watch.
*karmically ... I HATE auto correct
If it’s up to Mamdani New York is getting and going to get exactly what he said he was going to give it, communism/socialism. And if LA and California again votes in the bus driver that’s doing his best to commit suicide and drive off the cliff California will fall. Without a drastic change they are destined to fall.
We're in the same boat here in Seattle, which has been subjected to one party rule for so long that most of the people living here have never seen a Republican Mayor...
And they just elected a 42 year old self proclaimed Socialist as Mayor, who has never actually had a full time job and whose Leftist college professor parents were still subsidizing her rent/childcare costs! (She has a husband but he's collecting welfare while he tries to perfect his bagel recipe 🙄)
Mayor Katie is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. She famously "waved" goodbye to the millionaire class rapidly departing the state before the next statewide income taxes kick in, she is refusing to turn on the CCTV cameras for FIFA in two weeks, in violation of the law, and she thinks it's no big deal that Starbucks is moving their headquarters to Nashville because the business climate here is so bad!
Maybe just maybe, it will finally get bad enough for a sane moderate to have a chance...but unfortunately, probably not!
Just like Mamdami. What is it with people voting in deadbeats who live off their parents?
Who pretend they can fix deep-seated, long-term problems in those cities, no less?
I can't TELL you how many folks I've known who were raised with the same addle-brained parental 'support' ...
Unfortunately, many people who choose to procreate, are not suitable parents.
Yes indeed
So much parenting, especially among the privileged, ends up causing their offspring untold damage and suffering
Ah, the good old days with David Dinkins as mayor. The lovely stroll I used to take from the Port Authority bus terminal through Times Square- peep shows and hookers on every corner - stepping over bums, urinating on themselves, one time slipping on a puddle of blood after a murder, I kid you not. Being aggressively panhandled 10+ times before I could get to my job at 1221 Avenue of the Americas (formerly the McGraw-Hill building- now showcased as "Runway" HQ in the Devil wears Prada 2). I lasted 3 years there before fleeing. My sister brought me back under Giuliani administration and Times Square looked like Disney World. For the love of God I hope Angelenos wake up and also that Thune is removed... there's some kind of controlled demolition going on preventing the SAVE America act from becoming law. For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and the whole world.
Wow what a contrast between Dinkins and Giuliani admins! I mean, I knew about how bad it was in the 80s because I lived upstate at the time, but the details you gave really highlight the terrible state NYC was in then.
It was absolutely horrific and I did not embellish even one of those details.
I totally believe it! This is why my parents, on the rare occasions that they visited the city, refused to take us kids with them. I never even got to go until I was an adult in my late 30s (partly because I lived farther away as an adult, otherwise I might have gone a little sooner).
I had business in Manhattan occasionally during 1992-95 and I know you have not embellished one bit!
Ah yes...I remember it well. I stayed at the Century Paramount on 47th many times over 1977 and 1978. Times Square was a pure shithole.
I remember being flown to interviews for jobs out of college - San Jose & San Francisco - and one in LA, in 1988. It was my second time walking around in CA big cities (first time was Huntington Beach and Venice Beach near LA in 1983.) In the evening (like 8/9 pm) I had to step over passed out drunks on the sidewalk outside of countless strip clubs lit up lining the streets. The clubs weren’t noticeable during the day at all. But at night it was like Vegas suddenly appeared. Passed out people were everywhere, it was so gross. I was too naive and so I snapped a pic of one guy just lying on his face/stomach, out cold, on the stoop of one such business. I remember the guy I traveled with from my grad class was laughing, but still pulling me quickly away and saying we needed to get out of there. (I was basically a living, breathing Barbie doll in those years, so most definitely not safe on my own.) But it didn’t “feel” dangerous, and I have a pretty good sixth sense for danger. There were no riotous thugs or dangerous characters lurking, just hoards and hoards of drunks (druggies? 🤷🏼♀️) and disgusting filthy businesses catering to them all. So that was before 1989/1993!