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Donna in MO's avatar

Have you watched the Babylon Bee series: Californians move to Texas? Hilarious - this one is my fave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MOy6Z_UP7c

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

That was hilarious!!

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Seeking Grace's avatar

Thanks, Donna in MO!! I ended up watching parts 1 and 3 also. Love the Babylon Bee!

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Susan Catherine's avatar

Thanks for sharing! That was good.

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Michael Framson's avatar

That was delicious!

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

HYSTERICAL

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

This is horrible. They need to stay were they are!

They are like locusts. Feeding off and ruining one crop then moving to another. Leopards do not change their spots!

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Linda Studer's avatar

I am one who escaped the craziness of Commifornia. We could no longer endure the liberal shipwreck it had become and continues to worsen. It has been heartbreaking at times to hear the mindless retoric directed at bonafide conservatives who oftentimes are a greater benefit to the areas they've moved to. Not everyone in CA are liberal just as not everyone in TX, FL, AZ, etc. are upstanding citizens. Think before you generalize, not all are locusts...

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Jay Horton's avatar

If you are old enough, you probably, like me, thought California was the koolest place on earth, back in the day: skate boards,surfing, Hot Rods, fashion, Hippies, Ad nauseam. I have met some really great folks from California. It'd be next to impossible to lump them all in together, logically speaking. That's as insulting as "Florida Man", "Fly-over States" and the like. I get what the not free guy is saying but, with tales of cheating etc.... set aside, sometimes you simply get out voted and sometimes you are simply out numbered which has nothing to so with the way LS expressed the way she (her family feel or represent).

Later Jay

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WIMomof3's avatar

It used to be on my list to vacation but no more. Nothing I want to see there. I have no interest in Hollywood or the homeless.

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Anna T's avatar

My last trip to Cali (SF, driving along the coast, LA) was in June 1980 so I shall always remember it as a beautiful place. No need to go back there and destroy my memories.

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Deb B's avatar

Putting avocados on everything was one of the additional 'quirks' that stood out to me as a midwesterner. My little 9 year old cousin opined that the guac her mother made had too much lemon juice in it:-).

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

You all let it become what it has.

They don't call it californication for nothing. The land of fruits and nuts. These are just facts, not opinion. Right?

If you don't understand that you have been touched.

Just the facts.

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Amuzed_Traveler's avatar

Fraudulent elections had nothing to do with it, huh?

And as far as "you let it become what it has", I suggest you look at the broader Nation in its entirety. We're ALL letting it become a 3rd world shytehole. Before our very eyes.

The pen is NOT mightier than the sword. All of our type type typing of our displeasure is but "...all sound and fury, signifying nothing".

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Of course the people are doing the fraudulent elections and the other people are letting them, have you seen the videos of the cheaters? 2,000 mules Documentary? So obvious that they are taping up cardboard on the windows so the teachers, I mean fellow citizens, can't see them cheating! Same is happing to Philadelphia, Atlanta , couple cities in Arizona ....wherever the California Silicon Valley Zuckerbucks moved to Fund the cheating of the Elections!

California is exporting the cheating! Thanks for pointing it out.

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WP William's avatar

all are Free but some are Freer than others. All Elections are Immaculate some are more immaculate than others. Pens and Swords and other implements will be needed in vast numbers to solve the problems foisted upon us.

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Peace's avatar

"You all" - Linda just said there are many who don't belong in the "you all" camp. I believe Linda likely did all she could, as well as the other conservative voices, to rail against the leadership in CA before needing to relocate.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Peace, what do you " believe" Linda did? Do you know her? Do you even know if she did anything? Or do you just spew Liberal Sh...t ?

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Peace,

What did she do?

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Peace's avatar

Freedomisnotfree - I'm thinking you are new to the C&C family as your line of commenting and questioning is out of ordinary for the typical encouraging-one-another posts.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Thinking wrong peaceful.

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CStone's avatar

You are very rude.

Just saying.

Btw, what exactly are YOU doing, keyboarding?

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Hey Charles,

Seven Techniques of Propaganda ...

Dems/Commies are known for name calling and hurling insults when they cannot think of an intelligent or articulate response in a debate or conversation. This is well known.

You may want to rethink your 8 th grade Commie mentality....

Stiles outlines the history following World War One, reminding us that there was a brief and futile pushback against the use of propaganda by the government against the people.[5]The Institute for Propaganda Analysis was formed in 1938, dedicated to protecting democracy from the threat of propaganda. (Spoiler: it failed.) But this Institute identified seven main techniques of propaganda, most still widely in use today:

1. Name Calling: A device to discredit an opponent without refuting his claim.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Hey Charles do you think this is rude? Killing people with poison rat juice for money? Get your priorities straight you ....or no, not if they are polite about it....that's what Dummyrats want politeness while murdering for money. It makes all the difference.

Like dying fully vaxxed ( 8 times now ), you feel" safer " and you " had less symptoms ".

https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/0d697a75-ef40-48c5-9030-f2f0d1d8b565?j=eyJ1IjoiYm83M2gifQ.CHLa252B5sXJBie8Szee0GSS3PNU_rWTsrRdCbCYE0c

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Linda Studer's avatar

Not going to waste anymore time on this. You're obviously incapable of thinking in anything but sheeple generalizations. You are what will destroy any faith in the conservative movement by ignorant rants.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Exactly what was said by me that is not factual ?

Please don't spew without proof.

I always forget how many Libbies are on this site.

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Dennis L.'s avatar

We have a lot of California liberals in Arizona now. We need to build a wall.

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Amuzed_Traveler's avatar

As a California native of nearly 69 years, I must disagree with your statement here. I'm a smallest government capital C Conservative born in Orange County, which until 2018 was solidly conservative. Then, the Communists defrauded everyone in their election cheating. There's no doubt in my mind.

I firmly believe that, aside from completely fraudulent elections, California and all of America would be solidly conservative. When I finally flee this place, it will because I'm moving to a place with solidly conservative values that mirror my own.

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SadieJay's avatar

I am a 5th generation Cali native whose family founded the state. I left. My family is still there and conservative. They are strangled by all the so called 'laws' that squash businesses and people with high taxes and insurance rates. The Conservatives have no voice in the legislature. My family is super conservative and are sticking it out until retirement. The whole homestead is geared towards surviving when surviving is at it's most difficult. There are some Californians who give ALL Californians a bad name.

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Seeking Grace's avatar

Re the Orange County elections in 2018, weren’t there something like 7 Republicans who were initially declared winners, only to be overturned by those pesky “found” votes days after? Including an Asian woman, IIRC?

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Amuzed_Traveler's avatar

Something like that…

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

HE/she is a troll.

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Tracy's avatar

Same here in MN. Can't get too much darker blue than here. People are under the assumption that we're all liberal af and that's just not true. The urban areas have all the power with the vote. That's where the concentration of Dems are and we outsiders just do not have a chance. Doesn't matter anymore though. There's no longer anything close to an uncorrupted election.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Conservatism is all relative like everything else. A California conservative is first an oxymoron or just a ....

But compared to a SE conservative, I would place my money on the SE erner in a gunfight, survival skills and common sense.

From someone who has lived in all the above places ( and another country ).

Said my piece.

Best

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Peter GL's avatar

don't forget it gave us Ronald Reagan

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WP William's avatar

Don't come to CommieRado; we're barely behind your formerly great state. This place is ground zero for Marxism and sissy (Dick Waddams) Republican moderation running his mouth about how Trump and radical righties have ruined the GOP here. While his type has allowed it to fall and become ever more irrelevant for decades before Trump left the Dem Party to join the GOP. The PAINFUL REALITY is (I hear them say) that the Colorado GOP must be a Party of "Moderation" and Independent from Trumpism, what is that exactly? Is it a NEWER GREENER DEAL than the Dems in my state are pushing? According to all the polls, the demographic shifts, and younger more socialist minded voters we are out of step and will further decline into minor party oblivion. So what message does that send? GOP Moderate Marxism is the counter to the Dem Party Vision??? Abandon ship on Conservatism and Freedom? WE DESERVE TO LOSE if we can neither discern nor describe the realities we face and that are occurring under FULL DEMONcratic control of State Gvt. in ColorHateO

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Bryn Cannon's avatar

In my opinion, this is one of those ideas that was planted by the left to get us all arguing. It seems true and invokes fear, but I personally have never run into someone who fled a blue state for a red state and then continued voting blue.

However, I have met a lot of people in my neighborhood - new housing development in central AZ, an area known for conservative values - who apologize for being from the west coast blue states and profess their gratitude for being in a sane community. There have been a few lefties among the neighbors, and one by one they sell their houses and move back. My guess is they had no idea they would be surrounded by conservatives, don’t like it, and return to their people.

AZ has been turning bluer over the years, but that is because the PHX area is becoming a tech hub with lots of young software engineers moving in from elsewhere. Fraudulent elections help too.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I think some truly are looking for more freedom but others are unfortunately as you described 😕

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Yes, the plan is to let us bring ourselves down with infiltrators. So is it worth it with 50/50 Traitors or even 75/25 ( demonrat infiltrators )? I have seen 3 say it in a very few words to my face with a pensive pause, gleam in their eyes.

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Roger Beal's avatar

BOOM went the truth bomb.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

Exactly! They’re the ones who voted in the problems.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

It probably would not be allowable legally, but I've always thought an excellent principle to temper people moving to a State would be strict residency requriements before they were allowed any, or at least most, of the benefits a citizen of a State enjoys. Gone would be the days of welfare parasites getting off the bus and registering for benefits in their new home. "Have you been a resident for five years? Or paid State taxes in three of the past five? You haven't? Well, that's too bad..." "You want to enroll your three children in our public schools? Well, you can, but until you establish legal citizenship, you'll have to pay their tuition..." And so forth. Even middle- and upper- class arrivals should be classified as, hmmm... "legal resident" until they'd met some minimal standards. I suppose we would have to concede them some benefits...perhaps the right to trial by jury and to own property.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Two things: 1. I think taxes should only be voted on by citizens subject to the tax, the biggest example being property taxes. If one doesn't own property then no say in the matter. Apartment dwellers with children will always vote to raise my property taxes to pay for their kids education.

2. Stop allowing foreign nationals and corporations to own real property in the U.S. I can't own property in the nearby Indian reservations but am allowed a 99 year lease. Same in Canada and as I understand it most of the rest of the world. China won't have to invade if they already own us.

Just thoughts triggered by your comment. Have a great weekend!

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Susan Catherine's avatar

My daughter moved out of Illinois last year. A one way UHaul price was outrageous. I suggested she book it r/t--get a local friend to help her with the move and to return the Uhaul. It saved her over $1K.

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