Steve: how much of this -- I'm saying 99.9 percent -- is about Ser Gavin the Tan positioning himself for his inevitable presidential run? (The .01 percent is genuine; the environmentalists are preventing the French Laundry from renewing its sous vide permit and that's a real problem.) The usual D moderate makeover -- look, he's doing a coexistential podcast with Ben Shapiro, leader of the digital Jewish Nazis, how broad-minded! -- is not going to stick if there are a few more riots featuring the Mayor of LA waving a Mexican and Palestinian flag amidst the tear gas and various undocumented flat panel television borrowers on the streets of LA. However, if Gavin's political striving leads to a small measure of incremental sanity on the regulatory front, great.
This tactical betrayal will cause much apocalyptic soup-throwing and highway-blocking by the Green screaming monster babies. I wonder if Gavin will deploy the national guard's therapy dog?
Gavin will never be president, but maybe his futile efforts will generate some beneficial side-effect. Gavin's hair is as slick and oily as his speech; he's the perfect guy to grease the wheels.
CA is desperate for money. Don’t be shocked if libs open up for more oil exploration (taxes from oil) It won’t happen soon but my hunch is it will happen. There are huge deficits & it is getting worse. Businesses & residents have been fleeing for years (tax base is shrinking). The unions care more about their pensions than windmills.
Lets be honest. Every law passed, regulation, etc. in California over the past 20 years has been designed specifically to serve the implicit purpose of the Communistic Purge. Since they now have full control of nearly all levers if power, they have free reign to institute nearly any policy they see fit. And since they want Gavin to win the presidency, like the ChiComs, they now want to slightly ease back on the Purge tactics to regain some of the popularity theyve lost due to the disasters theyve perpetrated. The issues is never the issue, its ALWAYS the Revolution, comrade. By any means necessary. Even capitalism.
I spent 25 years complying with California environmental regulations as part of my job. It gives me PTSD when I read "CEQA;" it was spoken as "See-qua" and wielded as a weapon in many of the public planning meetings I attended. I can personally attest that building something in California is slow and expensive if it's possible at all.
Dogmatic environmentalists have managed to degrade both the economy and the environment, for the greater glory of the Revolution. Some people in California are finally taking notice, and politicians with their ears to the ground notice them.
Even if this is a real effort at reform, a foot in the door, you can't change course on a dime - it'll take decades to lure businesses and investment back to CA. It's been decades in the making. HairStyle signing something doesn't mean a bunch of Texans are looking up UHaul rental rates.
Vermont has similar anti growth legislation in place (Act 250), for decades, and still legislators scratch their heads in wonder when declining tax revenues result, and vermonters' way of life gets worse every year.
:...and warned that developers will now go unchecked" // That's deliberately misleading to demonize developers - the folks who do the building of residences.
What it conceals is that the transactions the enviro-land-use Nobility really hate is the trade, between consensual adults, of private property of such sizes and locations as to be useful in providing housing which the teeming multitudes would find actually affordable for purchase.
Said Nobility has, by political manipulations (not , acquired dominant control over the private properties of individual citizens - who no longer enjoy free use of their properties, but must first beg permission of those nobles to be granted permission for a very small fraction of their former property rights for acts causing any visible change in the scenery, without anything like just compensation.
To achieve anything of any significance in a reasonably noticeable time frame would mean they are all suddenly thinking and willing to act like heroic characters from an Ayn Rand novel. This is farce with a smile on it's face.
Steve: how much of this -- I'm saying 99.9 percent -- is about Ser Gavin the Tan positioning himself for his inevitable presidential run? (The .01 percent is genuine; the environmentalists are preventing the French Laundry from renewing its sous vide permit and that's a real problem.) The usual D moderate makeover -- look, he's doing a coexistential podcast with Ben Shapiro, leader of the digital Jewish Nazis, how broad-minded! -- is not going to stick if there are a few more riots featuring the Mayor of LA waving a Mexican and Palestinian flag amidst the tear gas and various undocumented flat panel television borrowers on the streets of LA. However, if Gavin's political striving leads to a small measure of incremental sanity on the regulatory front, great.
This tactical betrayal will cause much apocalyptic soup-throwing and highway-blocking by the Green screaming monster babies. I wonder if Gavin will deploy the national guard's therapy dog?
He wouidn't be making this move if polling wasn't sending him a message.
Gavin will never be president, but maybe his futile efforts will generate some beneficial side-effect. Gavin's hair is as slick and oily as his speech; he's the perfect guy to grease the wheels.
"look, he's doing a coexistential podcast with Ben Shapiro, leader of the digital Jewish Nazis, how broad-minded!"
Read A Book! One without A Lot of pictures in it.
CA is desperate for money. Don’t be shocked if libs open up for more oil exploration (taxes from oil) It won’t happen soon but my hunch is it will happen. There are huge deficits & it is getting worse. Businesses & residents have been fleeing for years (tax base is shrinking). The unions care more about their pensions than windmills.
Lets be honest. Every law passed, regulation, etc. in California over the past 20 years has been designed specifically to serve the implicit purpose of the Communistic Purge. Since they now have full control of nearly all levers if power, they have free reign to institute nearly any policy they see fit. And since they want Gavin to win the presidency, like the ChiComs, they now want to slightly ease back on the Purge tactics to regain some of the popularity theyve lost due to the disasters theyve perpetrated. The issues is never the issue, its ALWAYS the Revolution, comrade. By any means necessary. Even capitalism.
I spent 25 years complying with California environmental regulations as part of my job. It gives me PTSD when I read "CEQA;" it was spoken as "See-qua" and wielded as a weapon in many of the public planning meetings I attended. I can personally attest that building something in California is slow and expensive if it's possible at all.
Can we assume that this rather remarkable evolution in democrat views has nothing whatsoever to do with fires in LA?
Dogmatic environmentalists have managed to degrade both the economy and the environment, for the greater glory of the Revolution. Some people in California are finally taking notice, and politicians with their ears to the ground notice them.
As a Californian in exile (I’ve been in Tennessee for the last 23 years), I hope this represents the start of something good.
The NYT made a rare spelling error. 'Rectify' is not spelt 'weaken.'
Even if this is a real effort at reform, a foot in the door, you can't change course on a dime - it'll take decades to lure businesses and investment back to CA. It's been decades in the making. HairStyle signing something doesn't mean a bunch of Texans are looking up UHaul rental rates.
Vermont has similar anti growth legislation in place (Act 250), for decades, and still legislators scratch their heads in wonder when declining tax revenues result, and vermonters' way of life gets worse every year.
It's like a giant unsolvable mystery.
:...and warned that developers will now go unchecked" // That's deliberately misleading to demonize developers - the folks who do the building of residences.
What it conceals is that the transactions the enviro-land-use Nobility really hate is the trade, between consensual adults, of private property of such sizes and locations as to be useful in providing housing which the teeming multitudes would find actually affordable for purchase.
Said Nobility has, by political manipulations (not , acquired dominant control over the private properties of individual citizens - who no longer enjoy free use of their properties, but must first beg permission of those nobles to be granted permission for a very small fraction of their former property rights for acts causing any visible change in the scenery, without anything like just compensation.
These same Democrats, every single one, will reinstate that law, and worse, at the first opportunity. They didn't stop hating you.
To achieve anything of any significance in a reasonably noticeable time frame would mean they are all suddenly thinking and willing to act like heroic characters from an Ayn Rand novel. This is farce with a smile on it's face.