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"Gavin Is Done" - State Farm's ULTIMATUM To California Could End Newsom’s Presidential Hopes

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A major headache for Gavin Newsome! Several major insurance companies have either stopped or limited the issuance of new homeowners policies in California due to the state's high wildfire risk and rising repair costs.
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It’s too expensive to live in California that is a fact, but on the other hand, if you are homeless, it’s the perfect place to live because everything is paid for,, and since you don’t have a home, you don’t pay taxes of any kind , it’s a beautiful thing. :unsure:
 
Just got back from California. Sacramento, the north coast, then to San Fran and Santa Cruz.

Freaking expensive place to visit. Everything costs a lot. Burgers to gas to eggs to housing.

Up north & inland Central Valley area seemed really nice, common sense people, even many along the northern coastal area.

Drive south closer to S.F. and insanity ensues.

This my 3rd (or 4th?) visit to Palo Alto, seemed somewhat calmer this time, maybe because Stanford sent the kids home for summer break?
 
4 years ago my homeowners was $1200.00 a year, its now $3600.00. All due to the lack of maintenance of our electrical grid by PG&E, almost every fire in Ca. is started by them, then they filed bankruptcy a couple years ago and continue to raise there rates to recover any losses. The ratepayers need to ban together and file a class action lawsuit against them.
 
Just got back from California. Sacramento, the north coast, then to San Fran and Santa Cruz.

Freaking expensive place to visit. Everything costs a lot. Burgers to gas to eggs to housing.

Up north & inland Central Valley area seemed really nice, common sense people, even many along the northern coastal area.

Drive south closer to S.F. and insanity ensues.

This my 3rd (or 4th?) visit to Palo Alto, seemed somewhat calmer this time, maybe because Stanford sent the kids home for summer break?
Yes everything is more expensive, but the wages are also much higher than other states, $20.00 an hour at McDonalds. You assessment of the citizen demographic is correct, get out of the major cities and everyone is a conservative, go to the major cities and everyone is a communist.
 
Desantis already nuked Newsom as a national figure during their debate earlier this year. His wife had to throw in the towel, FFS.
 
Yes everything is more expensive, but the wages are also much higher than other states, $20.00 an hour at McDonalds. You assessment of the citizen demographic is correct, get out of the major cities and everyone is a conservative, go to the major cities and everyone is a communist.
Pretty sure the fast food joints in Chicago are starting at $15 and many offering premiums so $20 is similar, but overall prices are lower in Illinois than in California. And being as how I live in Indiana, where prices are even lower, I think Illinois has crazy prices. But I don't think too much compares to housing costs in California, simply crazy expensive there.

My daughter's 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo, in a multi-story building with amenities and garage parking, in a restricted access Chicago neighborhood, would cost millions in San Fran. I paid cash for it 2 years ago. Doubt the price I paid would equal a downpayment on a similar size/amenities unit in S.F.
 
Desantis already nuked Newsom as a national figure during their debate earlier this year. His wife had to throw in the towel, FFS.
Newsom would probably do better in a debate against Trump than he did against DeSantis. Newsom can manage 20 minutes of coherent chatter, but at roughly 21 into any debate he runs out of platitudes and gets killed by facts. He'd probably do a good job of getting under Trump's skin, so maybe he could last 30 minutes against Trump? But the reality is that Newsom is an empty suit with failed policies, failed schools, high crime, and a nearly bankrupt state.
 
Pretty sure the fast food joints in Chicago are starting at $15 and many offering premiums so $20 is similar, but overall prices are lower in Illinois than in California.
I just got back from Midway. The white castle on 63rd and Cicero had a sign- starting pay 16.50.
 
I just got back from Midway. The white castle on 63rd and Cicero had a sign- starting pay 16.50.
I know at lease 1 White Castle in NW Indiana starts at $15.00 and the cost of living here is a lot lower, while the standard of living is higher, than the area around Midway on S. Cicero.

FWIW, I've been reviewing San Francisco apartments with Dasha. She found a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 950sq ft apartment in an 8 unit building, no amenities, for $4000/month.

Another one she likes is worse, but $50 less, it has 1.5 bedrooms, English Basement apartment, no windows in the living room or kitchen and costs $3950/month.

Based on S.F. prices, my home is probably easily worth $15,000,000 without the acreage. Freakin insane.
 
Yes everything is more expensive, but the wages are also much higher than other states, $20.00 an hour at McDonalds. You assessment of the citizen demographic is correct, get out of the major cities and everyone is a conservative, go to the major cities and everyone is a communist.
As an example, Millwrights I hire from the union hall make $60.00 per hour on there check and another $35.00 and hour for benefits, I sell my labor for $175.00 an hour. Don't base costs for the whole state using SF for an example, out here where I live you can get a 2000sf home on a couple acres for under 500k
 
As an example, Millwrights I hire from the union hall make $60.00 per hour on there check and another $35.00 and hour for benefits, I sell my labor for $175.00 an hour. Don't base costs for the whole state using SF for an example, out here where I live you can get a 2000sf home on a couple acres for under 500k
True, SF prices are above normal.

But from SF to San Jose, and even include LA to San Diego, the "average" home costs at least 10 times the average annual wage.

That is pretty crazy. And it is fact.

In fact the average home in Silicon Valley area (SF to SJ) is actually 11x the average annual wage.

And the population base of California is along the coastal area, so the 'average' in California, is essentially unaffordable for the 'average' Californian.

Now all that said, this is an interesting article.

From the American Greatness website.

LINK --> https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/10/why-gavin-newsom-must-never-become-u-s-president/


Why Gavin Newsom Must Never Become U.S. President

Newsom is unqualified to be president of the United States for the same reasons he is unfit to be governor of California.

Edward RingJuly 10, 2024
As President Biden’s age threatens to derail his reelection campaign, waiting in the wings and trying not to appear too eager is Gavin Newsom. It’s not easy. Wanting to be president with an intensity that might make Gollum’s lust for the One Ring appear prosaic, California’s governor knows that if Biden drops out, he’s the oddsmakers’ favorite.
But there is absolutely nothing Gavin Newsom has ever done that qualifies him to be president of the United States. If Newsom becomes the next U.S. president, he will accelerate a process that is already well underway and must be stopped at all costs: turning all of America into California.
There are glaring examples of California’s over-the-top embrace of progressive extremism. Identity politics. Race and gender “equity.” Decriminalizing crime and hard drugs. A complete failure to manage the state’s homeless, much less help them. An obsession with climate change that has inspired laws that reach into virtually every facet of life. Shortages of energy, water, and housing. And prices for goods and services so punitive that millions have fled.
Under Gavin Newsom’s watch, the state is devolving into feudalism: a massive underclass that can’t survive without government assistance, supervised by an elite minority that will retain political power by continuing to dole out that assistance. The formula is simple: make life progressively more difficult for ordinary Californians, tell them their travails are the result of bigotry and climate change, then secure their votes by offering them more government benefits.
And herein lies Newsom’s biggest crime, one shared by the progressive elites that run California and intend to take over the world. It is the biggest lie of modern progressivism—the corrupt foundation of their power. Newsom and his ilk are telling California’s middle class that what they have attained is socially unjust and ecologically unsustainable. They tell us that the ideals of equity and environmentalism compel us to live in high-density, low-impact housing, utilize shared transportation, and limit our consumption of anything that elevates our “carbon footprint.” And they are telling us that our taxes must be utilized to offer these same limited amenities to anyone who is “underserved,” “historically disadvantaged,” “unhoused,” or in any way a victim of “systemic discrimination.”
All of these assertions are monstrous lies. California is unaffordable because of decades of political choices, escalating every year, that have created high prices for everything. And more to the point, the elites that Newsom is part of and represents are themselves profiting from all of these policies that have condemned most Californians to lives of constant work and constant economic struggle. Which is to say that Newsom’s lies about the “climate crisis” and the alleged pervasive ongoing scourge of bigotry are not even noble lies in the service of achieving a better future for all. They are lies in the service of corruption, a con job designed to further enrich and empower a small elite.
Newsom is unqualified to be president of the United States for the same reason he is unfit to be governor of California. His entire public policy agenda is a rhetorical farce, existing only to fool voters, while across every major industry, politically connected players consolidate their power and their profits. Examples of this are comprehensive.
Across every business sector, owners and executives face cruel choices: fight a losing battle to preserve competition and manage costs, or stop doing business in California entirely, or join the cabal. Some still fight. Countless businesses have left. And a growing number choose to accommodate. They accept stifling regulations, knowing they have reduced the number of competitors. They accept higher costs and pass them on to increasingly captive customers with fewer and fewer options. They become bloated with attorneys and bureaucrats to deal with myriad government agencies, and for whatever the customer cannot bear, they collect in government subsidies. It’s a vicious circle, and as California spirals into feudalism, it’s taking America with it.
There is the homeless industrial complex, a consortium of government bureaucracies, “nonprofit” developers and operators, and for-profit vendors that have consumed tens of billions over just the past few years to house a laughably small fraction of California’s homeless, while simple shelters where sobriety was enforced would get them safe and on a path to recovery for a fraction of the cost.
There is Environmentalism Inc., unifying ambitious and zealous government agencies with powerful environmentalist nonprofit advocacy groups, trial lawyers, “renewables” importers, manufacturers and systems integrators, joined with utilities that love high energy prices because their profit is held to a fixed percentage of revenue. Higher costs per kilowatt-hour or therm of natural gas equal more absolute profit.
There are public sector unions—perhaps the most powerful special interest in the state—committed to the growth of government because it grows their membership dues. And the worse things get in California, the more unionized government employees are necessary to deal with crime, the homeless, and poverty. Societal failure is public sector success.
Not least, of course, are the tech billionaires, who to date have used their personal wealth and the unprecedented influence of their companies to manipulate state and national politics according to their agenda. As described, that agenda checks all the rhetorical boxes but obscures raw ambition. History provides no comparable example of wealth and power this concentrated, and they want more.
In every sphere, creating scarcity and shortages enriches the elites in California. Setting land aside to be preserved as “open space,” cordoning off urban areas and preventing expansion, is a perfect way to ensure that real estate investment portfolios—often held by huge hedge funds and public employee pension funds—continue to appreciate. And as ordinary Californians are priced out of owning homes, investment banks gobble up the inventory and rent the properties back to the plebes.
This is what Gavin Newsom offers America. This is the scam—the historic, tragic, malevolent agenda that Newsom and the people he represents have resolved to inflict on the world.
The alternative is not a mystery. Spend government money on practical infrastructure that yields long-term benefits instead of squandering hundreds of billions on absurd make-work projects like high-speed rail and floating offshore wind, which will be permanent drains on the economy. While recognizing reasonable environmental concerns, deregulate energy, mining, timber, water, transportation and housing so millions of Californians can be employed in high-paying jobs instead of collecting government benefits. And most of all, by restoring competition in all sectors of California’s economy, we can lower the cost of living.
Gavin Newsom is smart enough to know this solution would work. But the people who donate to his campaigns, and who donate to the campaigns of the supermajority of progressives who are party to the same fraud, have no intention of ever permitting this solution to again become reality. That is why Newsom—and any politician like Newsom—can never be allowed to become U.S. president.
 
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Cali is a place I have zero desire to visit. For me the world is insane enough without visiting the hotbed of insanity. Bad enough I live next to New York which I refuse to visit or spend money in. I am forced to drive straight through that horrible place to get outside of New England.

Some moronic NY governor once stated that people of conservative beliefs were not welcome in NY. I took that personally.
 
True, SF prices are above normal.

But from SF to San Jose, and even include LA to San Diego, the "average" home costs at least 10 times the average annual wage.

That is pretty crazy. And it is fact.

In fact the average home in Silicon Valley area (SF to SJ) is actually 11x the average annual wage.

And the population base of California is along the coastal area, so the 'average' in California, is essentially unaffordable for the 'average' Californian.

Now all that said, this is an interesting article.

From the American Greatness website.

LINK --> https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/10/why-gavin-newsom-must-never-become-u-s-president/


Why Gavin Newsom Must Never Become U.S. President

Newsom is unqualified to be president of the United States for the same reasons he is unfit to be governor of California.

Edward RingJuly 10, 2024
As President Biden’s age threatens to derail his reelection campaign, waiting in the wings and trying not to appear too eager is Gavin Newsom. It’s not easy. Wanting to be president with an intensity that might make Gollum’s lust for the One Ring appear prosaic, California’s governor knows that if Biden drops out, he’s the oddsmakers’ favorite.
But there is absolutely nothing Gavin Newsom has ever done that qualifies him to be president of the United States. If Newsom becomes the next U.S. president, he will accelerate a process that is already well underway and must be stopped at all costs: turning all of America into California.
There are glaring examples of California’s over-the-top embrace of progressive extremism. Identity politics. Race and gender “equity.” Decriminalizing crime and hard drugs. A complete failure to manage the state’s homeless, much less help them. An obsession with climate change that has inspired laws that reach into virtually every facet of life. Shortages of energy, water, and housing. And prices for goods and services so punitive that millions have fled.
Under Gavin Newsom’s watch, the state is devolving into feudalism: a massive underclass that can’t survive without government assistance, supervised by an elite minority that will retain political power by continuing to dole out that assistance. The formula is simple: make life progressively more difficult for ordinary Californians, tell them their travails are the result of bigotry and climate change, then secure their votes by offering them more government benefits.
And herein lies Newsom’s biggest crime, one shared by the progressive elites that run California and intend to take over the world. It is the biggest lie of modern progressivism—the corrupt foundation of their power. Newsom and his ilk are telling California’s middle class that what they have attained is socially unjust and ecologically unsustainable. They tell us that the ideals of equity and environmentalism compel us to live in high-density, low-impact housing, utilize shared transportation, and limit our consumption of anything that elevates our “carbon footprint.” And they are telling us that our taxes must be utilized to offer these same limited amenities to anyone who is “underserved,” “historically disadvantaged,” “unhoused,” or in any way a victim of “systemic discrimination.”
All of these assertions are monstrous lies. California is unaffordable because of decades of political choices, escalating every year, that have created high prices for everything. And more to the point, the elites that Newsom is part of and represents are themselves profiting from all of these policies that have condemned most Californians to lives of constant work and constant economic struggle. Which is to say that Newsom’s lies about the “climate crisis” and the alleged pervasive ongoing scourge of bigotry are not even noble lies in the service of achieving a better future for all. They are lies in the service of corruption, a con job designed to further enrich and empower a small elite.
Newsom is unqualified to be president of the United States for the same reason he is unfit to be governor of California. His entire public policy agenda is a rhetorical farce, existing only to fool voters, while across every major industry, politically connected players consolidate their power and their profits. Examples of this are comprehensive.
Across every business sector, owners and executives face cruel choices: fight a losing battle to preserve competition and manage costs, or stop doing business in California entirely, or join the cabal. Some still fight. Countless businesses have left. And a growing number choose to accommodate. They accept stifling regulations, knowing they have reduced the number of competitors. They accept higher costs and pass them on to increasingly captive customers with fewer and fewer options. They become bloated with attorneys and bureaucrats to deal with myriad government agencies, and for whatever the customer cannot bear, they collect in government subsidies. It’s a vicious circle, and as California spirals into feudalism, it’s taking America with it.
There is the homeless industrial complex, a consortium of government bureaucracies, “nonprofit” developers and operators, and for-profit vendors that have consumed tens of billions over just the past few years to house a laughably small fraction of California’s homeless, while simple shelters where sobriety was enforced would get them safe and on a path to recovery for a fraction of the cost.
There is Environmentalism Inc., unifying ambitious and zealous government agencies with powerful environmentalist nonprofit advocacy groups, trial lawyers, “renewables” importers, manufacturers and systems integrators, joined with utilities that love high energy prices because their profit is held to a fixed percentage of revenue. Higher costs per kilowatt-hour or therm of natural gas equal more absolute profit.
There are public sector unions—perhaps the most powerful special interest in the state—committed to the growth of government because it grows their membership dues. And the worse things get in California, the more unionized government employees are necessary to deal with crime, the homeless, and poverty. Societal failure is public sector success.
Not least, of course, are the tech billionaires, who to date have used their personal wealth and the unprecedented influence of their companies to manipulate state and national politics according to their agenda. As described, that agenda checks all the rhetorical boxes but obscures raw ambition. History provides no comparable example of wealth and power this concentrated, and they want more.
In every sphere, creating scarcity and shortages enriches the elites in California. Setting land aside to be preserved as “open space,” cordoning off urban areas and preventing expansion, is a perfect way to ensure that real estate investment portfolios—often held by huge hedge funds and public employee pension funds—continue to appreciate. And as ordinary Californians are priced out of owning homes, investment banks gobble up the inventory and rent the properties back to the plebes.
This is what Gavin Newsom offers America. This is the scam—the historic, tragic, malevolent agenda that Newsom and the people he represents have resolved to inflict on the world.
The alternative is not a mystery. Spend government money on practical infrastructure that yields long-term benefits instead of squandering hundreds of billions on absurd make-work projects like high-speed rail and floating offshore wind, which will be permanent drains on the economy. While recognizing reasonable environmental concerns, deregulate energy, mining, timber, water, transportation and housing so millions of Californians can be employed in high-paying jobs instead of collecting government benefits. And most of all, by restoring competition in all sectors of California’s economy, we can lower the cost of living.
Gavin Newsom is smart enough to know this solution would work. But the people who donate to his campaigns, and who donate to the campaigns of the supermajority of progressives who are party to the same fraud, have no intention of ever permitting this solution to again become reality. That is why Newsom—and any politician like Newsom—can never be allowed to become U.S. president.
All those places you listed are the major cities with the highest prices, and make up about 15% of Ca. land mass. Go to realtor.com and check out prices in Lassen county Ca. or Modoc county or even my county, Calavaras. You will see prices that are 50% to 70% cheaper than the big cities, its where the conservatives live here.
 
Cali is a place I have zero desire to visit. For me the world is insane enough without visiting the hotbed of insanity. Bad enough I live next to New York which I refuse to visit or spend money in. I am forced to drive straight through that horrible place to get outside of New England.

Some moronic NY governor once stated that people of conservative beliefs were not welcome in NY. I took that personally.
You are missing out on a lot, Ca. is a beautiful state with a lot of good people outside the major dim run cities. Those cities make up about 15% of the total land of Ca. If Ca. were on the east coast it would include every state from Florida to NY. I stay out of the cities unless I absolutely have to. I think its that way in most states now.
 
All those places you listed are the major cities with the highest prices, and make up about 15% of Ca. land mass. Go to realtor.com and check out prices in Lassen county Ca. or Modoc county or even my county, Calavaras. You will see prices that are 50% to 70% cheaper than the big cities, its where the conservatives live here.
Oh I agree, the conservatives live in the affordable places.

But the under-educated and unskilled workforce that support the "population centers" that dominate the vote live in the unaffordable urban/suburban coastal and tech regions. Low priced housing is too far from the jobs that the undereducated service workers can drive too, so they are stuck in the squalor created by the coastal elites and silicone valley grandees.
 
Oh I agree, the conservatives live in the affordable places.

But the under-educated and unskilled workforce that support the "population centers" that dominate the vote live in the unaffordable urban/suburban coastal and tech regions. Low priced housing is too far from the jobs that the undereducated service workers can drive too, so they are stuck in the squalor created by the coastal elites and silicone valley grandees.
The point is that Ca. is a very large diverse state, like I said if on the east coast would encompass Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and every other state to NY. Look at all the different policies in that amount of land mass. The expensive place are the large cities that are also inhabited by rich nuts, druggies and illegals. In total it makes up a very small part of the state. The rest of the state is mostly conservative and it where the best part of Ca. is, lots of agriculture and beautiful scenery. The large cities are rapidly declining and have had major businesses leave them for other states with more to follow, that said they are losing there influence and folks are not happy about how the state is being run, not only in the rural area but the business owners left in the major cities have tired of there woke agendas cutting into there revenue. SF at the waterfront, places like Fishermans wharf are abandon. No one travels to SF anymore for entertainment or business, its becoming a ghost town. As there money dries up from lack of tax money it hampers there agenda. At some point in the near future I see a reckoning coming there way here.
 
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