Cont: The Trump Presidency VIII

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Lambchops said:
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Has California had the same Governor for fourty years now?
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LOL...
Never heard of that action movie star... Ahnold?

j/k
Yes... after a quarter century off doing I have no idea what, Mr. Linda Ronstadt (sp?) came back and got re-elected as Ca. Gov... again.

Cue some of the funny (and not so funny) nicknames for Jerry... we've got a few... :D



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And apropos of nothing, here are the lyrics for California Uber Alles, penned by Jello Biafra in the year of Our Lord 1979:


I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president

Carter power will soon go 'way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California

Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes, here's a pretty flower

Die on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
 
Water and water rights have long been an intensely evil dark side of California politics and manipulated by wealthy interests. People have literally been murdered for their water (and I would not ask too many questions if I were you). The movie Chinatown originates in a real story of how LA stole the water rights to the Owen Valley, leaving what was a productive agricultural area a desert. And the water grabs continue.

Much of this represents the arid southern portions of the State seeking ever more water from the wetter northern portions of the State and from other states even as far away as Washington. Mostly to sustain increases in agricultural plantings and increased housing development. But northern California is not a completely innocent victim in this regard. Although historically having a reasonable amount of runoff from winter rains, increased planting of water hungry crops such as almonds, and the recent droughts, have led to many farmers and other commnities to pump ground water out much faster than it can ever be replaced. The wells begin to fail, the ground subsides, etc. Just a titanic disaster in the making. Instead of the Louis XV "After me the deluge" their slogan appears to be "After me the dust bowl."

But this is not unique to California. Water is money and power and corrupt and cynical attempts to control it exist almost every state. For example water rights to many rivers are given to stake holders" as absolute acre-feet based on the best runoff years, rather than as percents of the actual flow in any given year. How can this make sense?

Notably however none of this relates to wild fires.
 
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Jim_MDP said:
LOL...
Never heard of that action movie star... Ahnold?

j/k
Yes... after a quarter century off doing I have no idea what, Mr. Linda Ronstadt (sp?) came back and got re-elected as Ca. Gov... again.

Cue some of the funny (and not so funny) nicknames for Jerry... we've got a few... :D



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Hah, yeah. I totally forgot about Ahhhnold. :D
 
Lambchops said:
And apropos of nothing, here are the lyrics for California Uber Alles, penned by Jello Biafra in the year of Our Lord 1979:


I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president

Carter power will soon go 'way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California

Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes, here's a pretty flower

Die on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
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Interesting, but none of this relates to Jerry Brown IMO. There is much that I do not like about him, but the problems I have with him are not those alluded to in the lyrics. Weird. Perhaps the rhymes rather than the reality drove the writing.
 
Giordano said:
Interesting, but none of this relates to Jerry Brown IMO. There is much that I do not like about him, but the problems I have with him are not those alluded to in the lyrics. Weird. Perhaps the rhymes rather than the reality drove the writing.
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The meditation bit? That was the seventies (eighties?) view of Brown, totally.
 
Lambchops said:
Quick question: Governor Jerry Brown, who has been mentioned several times in the last few pages, is he the same Governor Jerry Brown from the Dead Kennedys song California Uber Alles released in 1979?

Has California had the same Governor for fourty years now?
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Yep, but Governor Moonbeam had a long time off in between. He's a good governor.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Back to California

Trump tweets

"California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire from spreading!"


Isn't this just a repeat of yesterdays tweet?
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yeah, same old stupid crap.
 
Stacyhs said:
True. Eastern WA and eastern Oregon summers are very similar to S CA summers: hot and dry. That's why I live west of the Cascades, not east. But this summer is not much better this side of the mountains.
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And the COast of California North of San Francisco has a moist climate similar to that of Coastal Oregon and Washington.
Though it does not go very far inland, as the Fires around Clear Lake shows....
 
I am exepecting some fun next weekend with the first anniversary of Charlottesville coming up.
That the the event that made me give up on not only Trump but the GOP in general.
 
dudalb said:
Candace Owens … She is one of the House N Words for the far right.
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“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
-- Maxine Waters (June 25, 2018)

Candance Owens will be on Hannity tonight discussing what happened to her this morning at a restaurant.
 
Slings and Arrows said:
“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
-- Maxine Waters (June 25, 2018)

Candance Owens will be on Hannity tonight discussing what happened to her this morning at a restaurant.
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I'm sure many crocodile tears will be shed.

And any reasonable people will give zero *****.
 
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dudalb said:
And the COast of California North of San Francisco has a moist climate similar to that of Coastal Oregon and Washington.
Though it does not go very far inland, as the Fires around Clear Lake shows....
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I've spent a lot of time traveling through Southern Oregon and Northern California. I absolutely love that area. They call the Crescent City Brookings area the banana belt. Nevertheless there have been major fires during the summer down there the last 4 summers. I tend to avoid that road between Grants Pass and Crescent City during the summer because of it. 3 years ago it got incredibly smokey and they closed the highway because of the fires making me drive at least another 150 miles.
 
Lambchops said:
I'm sure many crocodile tears will be shed.

And any reasonable people will give zero *****.
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Reasonable people are wondering why Democrats are getting so violent and how it is going to end. (Not in the South, of course. Everyone down here is armed.)
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Reasonable people are wondering why Democrats are getting so violent and how it is going to end. (Not in the South, of course. Everyone down here is armed.)
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How do you contort your thought process to believe that Democrats are violent?
 
thaiboxerken said:
How do you contort your thought process to believe that Democrats are violent?
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Democrats oppose the growing conservative desire for a one party state in the US. This easily triggers the special snowflake conservatives. Maybe they'll try and arm up and take over some federal land...
 
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