The Imbecile Mayor should call out Traitor Joe and Traitor Alejandro,
the Leftist Media won’t and almost all Democrats won’t.
Bidens and Democrats and his friends are giving the whole world the middle finger.
Their message: Sloe Joe welcomed them with open arms, too late to be crying now,
1. We have card blanche, we are happy criminals, and nobody can touch us.
2 We kidnapped the US justice department.
3. We are using the System as weapons.
4. We have stolen the Elections.
Americans, what’s wrong with your country and you accept this Villains? How that can be? Eric Adams and zealots of “sanctuary city” church have been flocking around long enough to finally find out.
Playing stupid game – winning stupid prizes.
Who would guess … people who got to USA illegally (beginning their stay in the country by breaking the rules) would misbehave. Thanks to the Biden administration’s incompetence!
They’ve lied to the American people about the southern border for over two years.
Just wait until the terrorists that infiltrated into this country get established.
It’s going to get ugly! FJB!
You don’t say….. “Destroyed”? Democrats R HYPOCRITE.
Now you know what the border states have been dealing with, you sorry POS
By the migrant catastrophe that the Biden Administration and Mayorkis’ open border policy did for you?
I would’ve thought that rampant crime and drugs might’ve been contributing factors
but if you say that it’s Biden’s migrant fiasco, aok.
The city has bigger problems than the illegal aliens.
Crime caused by the Soros appointed DA is destroying the city.
SL0E JOE…. What a piece of shit.
Remember all the crap he talked about those little border towns in Texas?
Democrats stand there all superior in asinine stupidity, screaming sanctuary city status and diversity is strength, while demanding us evil Americans provide free school and housing, medical care and phone service. New York and every blue city in America is being destroyed by communist mayors, DAs and judges who are intentionally pushing anarcho-tyranny.
What a whiner, and 100% wrong.
NYC was first dealt a lethal blow by Bill de Blasio. He forgot the gang violence,
some of the highest taxes, and rental costs. The lack of concern for reaching educational goals for students. ” This does not include the indoctrination in woke culture.”
He turned the New York groove into an open sewer…. then you come along, with a phony election promise, to end the crime and cleanup the city. Cometh the time..cometh the man. That sure as hell not Eric the fool. And Joe Biden destroyed what was left.
Well your Democrat ass is completely responsible for your situation.
Stop crying like a Nazi Leftist baby when your Sanctuary City policies are contributing to your own problems. Grow a pair of balls and end your Sanctuary City policies you stupid fuck. The city was destroyed by the dynamic duo combination of eight years of the pothead Mayor DeBlasio and now the plainly stupid and radical Mayor Adams. Let’s Go Brandon!
You can throw in the witch in Albany and her cauldron of Communists
and New York RINOS as well.
It appeared to me that the Democrat leadership was well on
its way to destroying New York long before the migrant invaders began to show up!
Eric is asking for more funds from Joe since New York City is losing taxes due to the
vast citizens exodus due to crime increase and exorbitant amount of taxes.
Hey to bad! This is what you voted for.
Remember you voted for defunding the police and wide-open borders.
It is a problem for NYC but not El Paso? Houston? Arizona and New Mexico?
See what happens when the horde is dumped in your back yard.
When New York Mayor Adams talks about his city being destroyed he means the money he’s supposed to be skimming off the top is now being used up by the migrants he has no clue what he’s talking about other than that! This asshole needs to go spend one day on the border if he thinks the migrants assaulted his City.
Um classe de ateus desclassificados e outra de pseudo-crentes, tem acordado entre si,
que o povo de Deus será perseguido, preso, proibido de confessar o nome de Jesus Cristo. Pobres ignorantes soberbos: Está escrito que ; enquanto durar a lua, os justos florescerão, pois Deus já deu ao Rei de toda a terra e céus, os seus juizos e a sua justiça a todo o crente que já nasceu de novo entregando a vida a Jesus Cristo. Os inimigos dessa gente vai lamber pó. Vamos crescer prá cima desses escarnecedores.
Translated:
A class of disqualified atheists and another of pseudo-believers, have agreed among themselves that the people of God will be persecuted, imprisoned, prohibited from confessing the name of Jesus Christ. Poor ignorant haughty: It is written that; while the moon lasts, the righteous will flourish, for God has already given to the King of all earth and heaven, his judgments and his justice to every believer who has been born again by surrendering his life to Jesus Christ. The enemies of these people will lick dust.
Let’s rise above these scoffers.
NYC is a Marxist shithole that was long gone before Biden was installed and traitors opened up our border. Seriously? “City is Being ‘Destroyed’ by the Migrant Crisis”???
how about “Your City is being destroyed” by the Democratic Party communist ideology?
That’s delusional!
QUOTE: ‘New York City Mayor Eric Adams:
Recently slammed Biden’s border policy, indirectly, by claiming that the migrant crisis
is ‘destroying’ the city.’ Thank You, Captain Obvious! Sounds like you may be just a couple
of Bus Loads short of a crisis. You ran your campaign on NYC being a sanctuary city,
as I recall… ZFG! What Happened, did your Daddy Joe turn off the money spigot?
But he will not challenge illegally certified Biden. Heil Hitler!
( edited)Hey New Yorkers, You Voted for this Bag of $hit, You Pay for it! This is the Consequences of ill-informed Voters electing based on Woke Emotions. Or the equivalent of a Drunk being asleep at the wheel while driving down that DemocRAT Road to Nowhere. #YouOwnThis$hit!
Destroyed by evil politicians like yourself and liberal agenda…Theses politicians think they are on top just like Hitler thought…Hitler is in Hell being tormented for the same agenda…Wake up and repent before it’s too late…No, the city is being destroy of Un lawlessness. Adam is an embarrassment, being a law enforcer, he’s let the radicals control the five boroughs. New Yorkers thought they elected a person that was going to turn around the crime, instead he condones it.
(edited)
His political future is at risk, so he wants federal dollars to bail him out.
Won’t work, it has been attempted before with absolute failure each time.
Socialism consists of compassionate ideology ignoring our legal system and laws in place to keep disasters like this from happening. Socialism corrupts, kills and does not help individuals to better their lives and pull themselves up. I can smell the weed, piss and now. You know it’s a democratic run city when there are tyrannical mandates & filth absolutely everywhere. #ericadams, complain to your illegitimate governor about your self created crises. Or do what Newsom is doing and call in the national guard, your incompetence is evident.
NEWYORK MAYOR SAYS CITY IS BEING DESTROYED BY CRIMINAL ILLEGALS……….Now, this does not make any sense to me. after all, NYC is a “SANCTUARY CITY” where all criminal illegals whether they are murderers, rapists, child abductors and sexual assaulters and murderers of these children etc. does not matter one bit. They still need “sanctuary”, especially from the govts. they fled that seek to lock them up. All they require is unlimited, indefinite housing in 4 or 5-star hotels with room service while real Americans, especially vets, languish on the streets. But they don’t count. Shut ur commie mouth mayor. That’s the view from ALENA’S CORNER.
Ha, ha, ha what a idiot to actually blame the poor illegal immigrants for the crime in NYC. Wait till they vote ILLEGALLY your dumbass out of office like your sister in Chicago and replace you with a TRANNY. Maybe just a mannequin with an AI brain…Well dressed mannequin however… Total fabrication! The libs will Never admit it’s the Criminal Justice System they let run the streets murdering, looting, and raping! The Criminals they let out of Prisons or Refuse to Sentence to Prison.
This Mayor (?) should see the American City Problem from A Different Perspective.
His Part in Turning NY City into A Sanctuary may be Deeply Rooted in His Genetic Want. One could Say that his Black Race is The World’s Original DP (Displaced Person) in the Western World: A Genetic, Un-Intelligent built For Physical, En-Slaved, and Not Having the Technological Ability to Push-Back against The Muslim Enslaver. ‘
One Big Ass Mistake America!!!
How Does One Return to His Motherland KENYA’?
So Today, Not from The Slavery in Another Country, but in the US, the Free Mayor Confuses his Nation Building Genetic Inability and His Struggle with White Emulation by Asking in His Nation Building Confusion, ‘ Am I Right or Wrong in Trying To Replace America by trying to bring and build My African Motherland Here? ‘
Good job liberals. Better job Texas for showing Democrats how foolish liberal border policies are and forcing Democrats to admit it. No sir it has been destroyed by Democratic twits like you. May you and yours rot in hell for all the evil you have foisted upon NY city by both your actions to do wrong and your inactions to do right to safeguard the good citizens of your city.
Who or which Party created and organized this MIGRATION CRISIS?
And what about Crime in the NY Streets?
Here’s how you speak TRUTH, Eric: NYC destroyed by the now COMMUNIST DEMOCRAT PARTY which under the illegitimate transnational criminal Biden, powered by the CCP destroyed the US Southern border in his/their goal to take down America.
FCK ALL OF YOU. (edited)
What’s the problem…the southwest has been assaulted daily with thousands of state and federal welfare users of all types. You thought that was just fine. What your suffering is nothing compared to what border area towns has suffered…is suffering…will suffer way into the future. Quit whining …
Keep crowing about being a “Sanctuary City”, idiot.
NYC is being destroyed by Radical Marxist Liberals in Power.
You reap what you sow Eric Adams. You’re a failure as Mayor.
It’s your own policies that are “Destroying” NYC, fool.
Keep following the weirdest Progressive ideologies.
Keep not prosecuting felons.
Intentionally allowing high crime…number one. Illegals number 2 …
U.S. Marine gets 12 years for cross-border drug smuggling: NPR
Eric Adam’s your policies are in place, and you allowed it so you can funnel more money from the government what’s sadder is you support the very party that created slavery the democrats you are a shame to the black race and anyone that follows the very party that created the shit you spew, you
wanted them and requested them. He got plane loads of them from Westchester airport under the guise of Hillary Clinton. Then under Bellone in Long Island they stepped off of the plane and suddenly landed in NYC. We have the second coming of David Dinkins and DeBlasio all wrapped up once again in a dam liar who previously tried to rape and assault a fellow cop while he was on the beat.
LMAO!!! THE ONES WHO DESTROYED THIS HELL HOLE ARE THE ONES WHO VOTED THE DESTROYERS INTO OFFICE!! THE SMALL-MINDED THINK THEY ARE EXEMPT FROM WHAT IS HAPPENING !! YOU TALK ABOUT STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES? THATS THE DEFINITION!! THE DEMOCRAT VOTER!! THEY WELCOME THE ILLEGALS WITH HANDSHAKES, AN 1800.00$ CREDIT CARD AND A BEAUTIFUL HOTEL ROOM!! LMAO!!
This BLM Monkey-NYC
is like every other dem run city it’s turning into a lawless toilet and soon they will be pooping on the sidewalks just like San Fran., Los Angeles. Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, etc., and shootings are up in Chicago.
Did they destroy New York City or just its revenue?
Gee mayor, bring more of them into the city and find out for sure.
All the good New Yorker’s live in Florida and other southern states.
NYC, Gee Whiz, who’s Guna pay for all this wonderful liberal nonsense.
These people standing on the shoulders of many generations that built it,
CAN QUICKLY DESTROY IT ALL. I don’t know. All of headlines I see it looks
like BLM is destroying the blue cities. Cities destroyed by liberal leadership.
What the HELL are YOU doing about it besides complaining like the rest?
Maybe he’s hoping we have not been paying attention.
Maybe that swamp is too deep for him, and he bit off
more than he can chew…well, you know. And then —
there’s maybe he actually believes his own bs.
I’m thinking he screwed up the lines provided to him by his Soros backed bosses.
He was probably told to use words like Republican, Maga, and Trump in unison
with “Destroying the city…” Now that’s the kind of liberal spin one might expect.
Was that when you “migrated” from being a cop to being the mayor?
This Fraud is trying to put distance between himself and his own
Corrupt “democrat”/Communist Party and Alzheimer Joe!
another statement from the hell he’s created.
Ho hum, No sale!
NYC teen’s shooting death ended her quest for American dream (nypost.com)
Eric Adams doesn’t understand the connection between Murder & CHILDBIRTH.
Someone might want to tell this dumbass that when you declare yourself a sanctuary city, that kind of means you welcome illegals…maybe he didn’t get the memo. What a dummy:
Look in the mirror and you’ll see who destroying the city.
LAW & ORDER
U R NO. BETTER THAN THE OTHER IDIOT MAYOR NYC Had,
NOW UR TELLIN…PEOPLE WHAT TO DO n/EAT He also announced
NY is starting to phase meat and dairy products out.
Hope the new arrivals like Beyond Food and bugs.
You will eat whatever we tell you to – YouTube
This is how this buffoon got elected.
He talks tough but does nothing, congratulations NYC you picked another winner.
Now deal with it! Charles Darwin would be very disappointed about this BLM Monkey: )))
The REST of America does NOT want to Hear It!
YOU & ALL of your fellow Democrats can just F*CK OFF…. NYC?
How about Texas and Arizona…. talking thousands., what about thousands per day?
BOMBSHELL REPORT: Phoenix TV, accused of being a CCP intel-owned and
military-run propaganda arm — While utilizing White House press credentials
and unrestricted programming distribution on AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and
Dish Network — reaching hundreds of millions of US households.
Bush, Obama, Clinton Team Up with AmEx GBT to Fly Migrants into U.S. (breitbart.com)
AND NOW BIDEN, CLINTON, AND OBAMA WANT TO START AN NGO TO FLY ILLEGALS INTO THE U.S. all over the country….GREAT GO RIGHT AHEAD….WE CAN THEN ARREST ALL THREE OF YA….Cause ya know that we will consider that human trafficking….OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE STRICT, AND YOU ALREADY KNOW IT, SO YOUR PUNISHMENT WILL AND I REPEAT WILL BE MUCH, MUCH WORSE….SO GO RIGHT AHEAD….We already know how you were setting things up with Hiden when he was VP, and with Hunter and his friends…., NYC is being destroyed by The Dimocrat stupidity and incompetence. Illegal aliens are just the distraction & side show.
Biden needs to compromise on the debt ceiling. Or we’re all headed toward disaster.
Larger, more powerful: Navy declares fleet of Sa’ar 6-class warships operational.
Joe Biden Wants You To Pay a ‘Fee’ To Give Loans to People with Bad Credit,
BRICS New Development Bank breaks away from US dollar (msn.com)
Woman arrested for brutal knife attack on NYC juice bar worker (nypost.com)
“Relatively wide and high. They (Graphene hydroxide) are razors,
biologically NOT decomposabale.” Said Dr. #AndreasNoack.
So, this means that everyone who took the Covid jab would eventually DIE.
Those who lie to you that it is graphene oxide (controlled opposition) are alive and well…
They sell you healthy supplements claiming to eliminate vaccine damages, it’s all BS!
But only those who told the truth were murdered! (edited)
NYC subway attack victim shreds AOC’s argument against police raises:
‘We cannot call a teacher if I need help’ | Fox News
People leaving NYC for your inability to prioritize making the city safe, businesses to stay, as you ignore the rate of crime, have deterrents, or prosecute. When the budget needs to be met, minus the tax base now gone, we have just seen the beginning. It’s also Easy for New Yorkers to move to out of state snowbird homes. May lose business, real estate but family and new business out of NY will be safer. AOC, a megalomaniac demagogue!
Miles Guo constantly warned the US government that CCP launched unrestricted
warfare for years but was ignored. Even after his intelligence proved to be true, the DOJ
& FBI arrested him & put him behind bars without bail. CCP is in the American soil. CITY DESTROYED BY CCP Schumer BRAGG SOROS ADAMS. HOCHUL AND THE ANTI USA INCOMPETENTS. It was destroyed by you DemonRATs way before the ILLEGALS showed up in your sanctuary city. Seems your “Brand” is not working well Karma!
Devin Spraggins charged for shooting rookie NYPD cop in NYC (nypost.com)
親愛的紐約市長 請您弄清楚，紐約、美國、全世界的真正的敵人是CCP，
只要CCP存在紐約的一天，那都是紐約災難的一天
Translate:
Dear Mayor of New York
Please make it clear that the real enemy of New York, the United States,
and the whole world is the CCP. As long as the CCP exists in New York,
it will be a day of disaster for New York
請別搞錯了，不是被移民摧毀，而是被共產黨摧毀。您的敵人是共產黨
Translate:
Please make no mistake, it is not destroyed by immigrants, it is being
destroyed by the Communist Party. Your enemy is the communist party.
Democrats Always blame someone other than themself.
Is it time to jump ship Mr. Mayor? Your own Party pushed this lunacy.
Is “migrant crisis” some kind of code word for “Democrats” ?
Among other things…blue city …garbage in, garbage out.
If the CCP IS NOT Destroyed, the West will be destroyed.
Take down the CCP, #FreeMilesGuoNow
This is all a part of their New World Order AGENDA!!
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SPLC’s woke-a-joke “hate map”. NYC is spotless. Notice that they have a link to an article supposedly about “Patriot Front”. Wasn’t “Patriot Front” completely fictional-made up by the stupid “Lincoln Project” to make Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin look bad? #Mob at play. He’s BLM1 of the Antifas attacking the Police Training Center in Atlanta was an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Hate Map | Southern Poverty Law Center (splcenter.org)
You know, the SPLC should be declared a terrorist organization.
The mayor allowed that to happen. If the migrant crisis is destroying your city, Mayor Adams, then demand this government CLOSE the border and enforce immigration laws. It’s on his watch and he needs to take responsibility for what his communist party is doing. Time to stand up patriots and take our borders back. Shut up mayor adams. { u don’t rate caps.} You and your fellow commie bastards also made your commie beds in your commie cities now sleep in them. (edited) Congresswoman MTG Introduces Resolution to Declare Antifa a Domestic Terrorist Organization (rumble.com)
What an idiot but typical of a democrat.
Every sanctuary city, and NYC is one, invited the illegals in, and now he’s blaming the illegals who showed up. Dems virtue signal and then blame somebody else for their own stupid policies
and you think the government either doesn’t notice or can’t do anything about it?
If people started appearing inside your house and living in it would you not notice
and/or do nothing about it? OF COURSE, YOU WOULDN’T! If this is happening,
it is because it is ORCHESTRATED! No kidding.
All of America is being destroyed by this open border illegal immigration crisis.
PROTECTING NAZI SOROS/OBAMA ARMY OF SICK PSYCHO ILLEGAL ALIEN
MEN TO GROOM & ATTACK KIDS Illegal aliens who are LGBTQ ‘may not be
detained’ under Democrats’ new bill Illegal aliens who are LGBTQ ‘may not
be detained’ under Democrats’ new bill | Fox News
New York Mayor Eric Adams Says the City is Being ‘Destroyed’
by the Migrant Crisis (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance
DID THEY PUT ALL THE ELECTRIC CARS ON THE ROOF OF THE COLLAPSED PARKING STRUCTURE BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF THEM STARTING
A FIRE?? I DID NOT KNOW THEY ALL WEIGH OVER 1,000 POUNDS!!
I WILL NEVER PARK IN A PARKING GARAGE IF THEY LET ELECTRIC CARS IN………YOU CAN GET CRUSHED BY THEM !! THE ILLEGALS ARE THE NEW SLAVE TRADE FOR THE DEMOCRATS!! SLAVE TRADE IS ALIVE AND WELL BY LYING BIDEN!!
The city is being destroyed by criminals. They are free to do as they wish. The worthless bail reform, the worthless DA’s office, and you won’t let the police do their jobs. Let’s not forget a POS mayor. Yeah, it’s the migrant crisis destroying the city. Your pathetic city is not being destroyed by migrants. It is being destroyed because of you and your pathetic leadership. Stop blaming others for your incompetence. YOU are the root cause of all of your pathetic city’s problems. Before you, it was DeBlasio. Before that dolt, it was ALSO
Michael Blumberg. Three pathetic mayors in a row.
The first thing we need is a government who puts America and Americans first! The Biden, Americans Last Administration sends billions to protect Ukraine while handing control of our border to the drug cartels. Then they intentionally instigate an invasion of our country enabling millions of unvetted illegals, criminals and tons of deadly drugs to flow into our country!
Today New York being destroyed by migrants.
Yesterday by rats. Last week by crime. Tomorrow will be rich racist white.
Next the banker. Everyone and everything’s but Mayor Eric not responsible Adams! (
edited)
Really? You and the rest of the ‘woke’ -those-dimocrats did not care as they
destroyed their own states. Deal with it you idiot. I don’t like calling someone
an idiot, but it was the best non-profanity I could come up with for the ‘SOB.’
Fact: NYC isn’t being destroyed by migrants. It’s being destroyed by Democrats.
ADAMS IS DESTROYING NEW YORK WITH HIS POLICIES AND HIS HATRED OF WHITE PEOPLE. ILLEGALS ARE PART OF THE DESTRUCTION OF UNITED STATES AND GIVES A WAY OUT FOR ADAMS CULPABILITY FOR THE NOT-SO-SMART
CONSUMPTION. WHO IS VOTING FOR THEIR OWN SELF-DESTRUCTION?
ARE PEOPLE GIVING UP ON GOD AND BECOMING SO STUPID THAT THEY CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE RIGHT FROM WRONG? IF YOU GIVE UP GOD GUESS WHO WILL REPLACE IT? SATANIC DEMONS! REMOVE YOUR CHILDREN FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, ITS YOUR JOB TO SAVE THEM, AN HONOURABLE JOB (edited)
Opinion: California takes on a new responsibility in U.S. politics:
Enlightening the rest of the country
Opinion by Thad Kousser • Yesterday 6:00 AM
The first maps that European explorers drew of California showed it as an island.
It was fully detached, separated by a wide gulf from the rest of the continental landmass, standing apart from the rest of the New World. This is both one of the most famous cartographic mistakes in history and one of the most telling. Later, ever since California became a state, residents have viewed their land and their politics as a world apart.
This was never more true than during the Trump era. When national politics lurched right, the state moved to isolate itself to protect its progressive policies. The day after Donald Trump’s election, California’s legislative leaders wrote, “Today, we woke up feeling like strangers in a foreign land” but called their state “a refuge of justice and opportunity,” vowing that “California will defend its people and our progress.” California declared itself a sanctuary state to protect immigrants and enacted a ban on government-funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ policies.
Three recent announcements signal a shift in the Island of California’s approach. First, legislative leader Toni Atkins called to end California’s travel ban, replacing it with an ad campaign promoting acceptance and inclusion in the 23 red-leaning states that had been off limits. Before she moved to California and rose to historic heights — becoming the first person in over a century to serve as both speaker of the state’s Assembly and leader of its Senate — Atkins grew up in rural Virginia.
Reflecting on her roots, she said she has come to believe “that the way to change
people’s minds is to have impact and direct contact and to open hearts and minds. …
Polarization is not working. We need to adjust our strategy.”
Doubling down on this approach, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a political action committee, seeded with $10 million that he never needed to spend as he cruised to reelection in this blue bastion, that is designed to “take the fight to the red states.” The idea is to make the case for California values and the progressive policies that put them into action, holding his state up as a counterpoint to the conservative locales that have pushed the nation rightward on abortion, guns and voting restrictions.
In the first week after his announcement, Newsom visited Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and the MSNBC studios. It’s a counteroffensive in the culture wars, with California leading the charge.
Third, Democratic leaders across the state are taking action since the bans on abortion put in place elsewhere after the Dobbs decision last summer. These officials have pushed a concrete set of policies to convey California’s freedoms to those from other states. In Sacramento, legislators have introduced 17 bills this session that would “further the protections to people who may end up coming to our state” for abortions. After a federal judge in Texas issued a ruling aimed at restricting abortion medication, the state moved to create a stockpile of 2 million pills, and L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath affirmed that “anyone who comes to Los Angeles County will be safe, you will be protected.”
Similarly, in response to red-state attacks on trans people, Californians are seeking to ensure that our state’s doctors can provide gender-affirming care to patients from across the nation. Rather than walling off the state as a sanctuary against Trump-era policies, California’s leaders are actively positioning it as a haven that red-state residents can visit to seek gender-affirming care or reproductive care.
Is this a fight to change policies, or a battle to win the narrative? It’s both. Atkins’ idea
is that to change laws in rural areas, you must first change hearts and minds. The direct contact she prescribes could come through state employees traveling to other states again, or from those who travel to California to seek out its social freedoms. The hope is that each type of interaction will set off a chain reaction that shifts opinions, and eventually policies, across America.
Will it work? There are reasons to believe in and to doubt this project. California absolutely possesses the policymaking expertise to craft laws and regulations that become models for other states to follow. It’s long been a leader in areas such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting internet privacy, regulating autonomous cars, controlling gun and ammunition sales and safeguarding voting rights.
More and more, our lawmakers strive to pass first-in-the-nation laws like those providing universal school meals and allowing college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, then actively advocate for other states to follow along with them.
In an era of ever-more-nationalized politics, shining a light on the policies that California is exporting is a necessary step in changing the national conversation.
The next step is recognizing how the rest of America sees us at this moment.
Here, humility is in order. Our state’s reputation is at a low point, at least among red voters who see only crime and homelessness here on cable news and social media.
Just as we saw in the mid-1990s and during the Great Recession, we are losing population to other states.
So before they tell other states that they should pass all of our policies, California’s leaders need to make a clear case for their benefits.
California’s economy grew rapidly, outpacing many of our red-state rivals, at the same time that we passed many progressive policies over the past two decades. The economy rebounded strongly from the pandemic at the same time that we saw much lower disease and death rates than places like Florida and Texas. And from Silicon Valley to L.A. to San Diego, California businesses continue to attract the lion’s share of venture capital to build toward the future.
It’s certainly true that President Biden’s agenda is limited by Republicans in Washington, but Sacramento has the Democratic supermajorities to get things done. That’s a serious responsibility and a valuable opportunity — now that California is no longer positioning itself as an ideological island.
Thad Kousser is a professor of political science and the co-director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UC San Diego.RELATED VIDEO: Republican and Democratic leaders in red states weigh in on Newsom’s southern tour (KCRA Sacramento) – Search (bing.com)
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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They continue to elect morons in Blue Cities!!!
My God it so shows that the people of NYC are even dumb and dumber.
It’s time for government that puts America first! ` DJT#2024 🙂