During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is virtually chasing taxpayers and companies out of the state with a massive state deficit, rising taxes, crippling regulations, and wasteful programs.
Recently, Gavin Newsom boasted, “California isn’t just keeping pace with the world — we’re setting the pace.” Recent data shows he is right. There is a record number of U-Hauls fleeing the state — more than any other state. Indeed, the only thing harder to find than a wealthy taxpayer in California appears to be a U-Haul.
According to U-Haul’s data, the state is again leading blue states in the exodus. The Washington Post noted this week that “California came in last. Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and New Jersey rounded out the bottom five. Of the bottom 10, seven voted blue in the last election.” Conversely, “nine of the top 10 growth states voted red in the last presidential election,” with Texas again leading the growth states.
The Post wrote that the conclusions are inescapable: “People want to live in pro-growth, low-tax states, while the biggest losers tend to be places with big governments and high taxes.”
What is most striking is how Democratic politicians and many voters are simply defying the data and logic. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents part of Silicon Valley, recently mocked billionaires moving to escape a planned wealth tax. Some of us have criticized the tax as perfectly moronic for a state with the highest tax burden, soaring deficit, and shrinking tax base.
The “2026 Billionaires Tax Act” would impose a one-time 5% tax on individual wealth exceeding $1 billion. While technically using 2026 wealth figures, it would apply to billionaires who resided in California in 2025. So you cannot hope to flee… at least with your wealth intact. It is a penalty for those who stay too long hoping that rational minds would prevail in California.
Yet, Rep. Khanna mocked his own constituents planning to flee the state, quoting FDR in saying ‘I will miss them very much.”
Indeed, you will. Democrats continue to act as if wealthy citizens are a type of captive audience. They are expected to be voluntary prey in a canned hunt for wealthy taxpayers. Many have chosen to take their money and businesses elsewhere.
As I discuss in my forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, there is a common myth that the top five percent of this country do not “pay their fair share.” However, putting that debate aside, the question is whether it will produce more revenue than it costs the state in the long run. As these politicians campaign on clipping the “fat cats” who are not paying their fair share, many are likely to follow the exodus to lower tax states with greater fiscal discipline.
From New York to California, Democrats are pitching new programs from free buses to state-run stores to reparations as their tax bases contract. San Francisco recently approved the reparations plan that could give up to $5 million to qualified residents. The city faces a billion-dollar deficit, yet it continues to assume greater debt obligations.
Once again, denying basic economics will only lead to a rude awakening when these leaders, to quote Margaret Thatcher, “run out of other people’s money.”
After watching the latest video of the driver mowing down the ICE Officer, Tim Pool concludes what we all concluded as well.
thank you Svelaz for supporting Tim Pool’s analysis
Political commentator Tim Pool said newly reviewed slow-motion footage led him to reverse his initial assessment of a fatal incident involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, stating that the video shows a 37-year-old woman intended to kill the officer and that the shooting was an act of self-defense.
Pool said he had previously believed the woman was attempting to flee and did not intend to strike the agent, though her actions still placed the officer in fear of serious harm.
After reviewing the footage frame by frame, Pool said his view changed.
“While I initially said that I believed she wasn’t intending to hit the officer and was trying to flee, but still put the officer in fear of harm. No, I’ve changed my mind,” Pool said.
https://www.lifezette.com/2026/01/slowed-down-footage-of-ice-incident-proves-she-tried-to-kill-the-agent-tim-pool-watch/
Fleeing recklessly is still a threat to life or bodily harm
The US is eliminating all solar and wind energy projects.
We will soon be able to provide light and heat to to entire Eastern half of the US just from JD Vance’s gaslighting
Trump’s farts could probably take care of the other half.
Maybe Trump can expand the whaling industry so we can use whale oil to light our homes.
What about water wheels?
Should we start buying land near creeks?
Trump’s new energy policy is to install human sized hamster wheels at immigrant concentration camps.
What will they eat?
Damn! You pathetic MAGATS are a hard crowd to entertain. I’m busting my ass having a clever conversation with myself to win a guest spot on Jimmy Kimmel. But you Idiots have no appreciation for what I’m giving you for free.
This is the dems plan.
Whaling was not subssidized by Government.
Anon, use your free speech. It shows your character. Free speech is neutral until it’s used.
POS lie. He is suspending it for 90 days, citing national security. He probably knows more than you do, clown.
How odd. The story is about california and governor newsom and all the liberal troll can talk about is is President Trump and VP Vance. I guess it’s true President Trump and VP Vance live in their heads rent free. It must really suck to be a Democrat, a Potato for their last president, a loser greaseball for their next presidenti candidate plus the Greatest President ever President Trump living rent free in their heads 24/7.
But mostly the Mineapolis ICE shooting is fading – probably no nationwide riots now that another left wing fraud has been exposed.
Oddly after watching the video – I thought the damning part was when the Officer got hit by the SUV near the end.
But I am not sure that the smarmy taunting by Good and her wife was not more damning still.
Regardless it undermined the “gay mom dropping off her kids at Daycare” nonsense.
It was clear from the video that Good and spouse were ICE agitators and almost no one can argue that were not interfering with Law Enforcement.
No effective electrical generation industry professional would have ever used your ridiculous “solar and wind energy projects,” which are actually ineffective wack job political affirmative action “fake” electricity generation projects.
The US is not eliminating any of this.
We haopefully are eliminating subsidies.
If you want wind or solar – you should pay what it costs.
Yeah tell us about that closing solar plant in Calif. Millions spent by O-dumber and it never worked right.
That giant sucking sound was Trump blowing Bubba.
Must really suck to be a lefty. Hate and insults are all you have.
Plus these pathetic put-downs you spew.
Pam Bondi was required by law to produce 100% of the Epstein documents in December 2025.
As of January 9 Bondi only released about 1% of the files.
Could a federal judge fine Bondi $10,000 per day until she complies with the law? Could they go after Bondi’s personal assets? Why should taxpayers pay for this?
^ don’t be distracted from the topic by the troll’s shiny object ^
no one pays attention to him except you
The big reveal may be what Virginia Giuffre wrote about George Clooney.
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AI Overview
The deceased female author and Epstein victim is Virginia Giuffre, who made the claim in her posthumously published memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. The book alleges that Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s associate, frequently bragged about performing a sexual act on actor George Clooney in a bathroom at a random event. Giuffre noted in her memoir that whether the boast was true or not was unknown, as it was a story Maxwell often repeated with pride.
Could that judge justify requiring the DoJ to review TWO MILLION documents in that time while doing the reactions he required?
And if we’re going to deflect to files… will Pam Bondi be indicting House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrey and Bennie Thompson for the J6 files they criminally destroyed in the belief they could get away with that like their name was “Clinton”?
Your move, Tovarisch!
It’s over. Tim Pool has proven: 1) the driver pointed her car at the officer; 2) the officer did not unholster his weapon until AFTER her wheels were spinning on ice; and 3) the driver definitely hit the officer.
The left can find the “next thing” to lie, spin, and gin up hatred about because this one is over.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2009310786833772907
If you were ever hit by a car (I was), and if you target shoot (I do), you do not get hit by a car and then fire 3 rounds. The officer panicked because of a prior incident. It was a wrongful death. If he gets prosecuted or not remains to be seen.
Watch the front wheels spin on ice as she hits her accelerator. She thought her car would be propelled forward and it was not. Her intent was to violently move the car forward with a policeman, a person, in front of it.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2009310786833772907
You might be right – but it does not matter – even if she really intender to miss the officer – it is clear that she acted recklessly and that the officer was at risk of losing his life or serious bodlily injury
Worse that even if Good had missed entirely that she was still reckless and a bad outcome was inevitable.
That is the standard for justified use of force.
Not clear. She steered toward him and hit the accelerator. He had the presence of mind to both shoot and attempt to get out of the way at the same time. He was partially successful, but not entirely successful, in getting out of the way, as he was hit by the corner of her car rather than being hit straight on. The shooting appears to have been defensive in nature, at least arguably. Under these circumstances, saying with certainty that “it was wrongful death” is alleging to be sure of something about which there is a serious question.
I seen some videos which are not conclusive. I say “wrongful death” because even with your version, he could have put more effort into side stepping the car, rather than aiming and firing. To fire more than once, seems to indicate that if he was hit by the car, it was very, very inconsequential. As a law enforcement officer he might escape prosecution, but if that woman was your relative, the death would certainly seem wrongful.
I am personally skeptical that the second and third shots were warranted. If the first shot caused the death, however, then they are inconsequential. Those are both issues that will have to be resolved based on further evidence than the video. And whether he could have done anything different is not entirely determinative of whether it was a justified shooting.
Whether it would seem wrongful to me as a relative is irrelevant to a legal determination of “wrongful death.” I was assuming you were using the term in its legal sense, not its colloquial sense, given the present discussion.
Doesn’t matter.
Dude, the video clearly shows the officer was NOT in front of the vehicle initially. She backed up her vehicle to point it directly at him. Then she hit the gas. Thankfully, her tires spun in ice which gave him a split second to unholster his weapon. He pointed it at her. Undetered, she kept her foot on the gas. He fired.
He had no idea who he was dealing with. All he knew was that she was there to obstruct ICE from apprehending foreign criminals; that she had not complied with an order to exit her vehicle; and that she was recklessly trying to unlawfully flee the scene.
. Her spouse yelled, Drive drive, several times? She instantly obeyed and punched the gas. The spouse isn’t excused by free speech. The driver instantly pulled the trigger. The spouse will be charged.
The officer was deliberately walking arround the vehicle and videoing – he was going to walk in front of the vehicle.
All deaths are tragic and seem wrongful.
The only question here is was Good at the very least recklessly dangerous – and that bar is met and exceeded.
You can analyse all the other factors to your hearts content – the do not matter with respect to whether the shooting was justified.
Poole sid he initially though she was trying to escape – but changed his mind.
My read of the video is that it established that she was trying to escape – she goes from just sittign to throwing the car into reverse, gunning it and throwing the car into drive and gunning it IMMEDIATELY after the officer orders her out of the car.
To me that is clearly a flight response.
But it is also clearly a Reckless and dangerous flight response.
After watching this video most viewers feel that had she missed the officer – she would be dangerous on the road.
She was out of control and only thinking of herself.
Remember John.
She cut off the ICE truck. From there it went down hill. The fault lies with her.
Who knows what was going on in her head, but clear thinking, wasn’t one of them.
She could have just gotten out of the car when the officer told her too. She didn’t.
She made the choice to run, and paid with her life. Stop spinning Michael.
If you watch the ICE agent’s video, you can clearly HEAR the car thump him, then the shots. That guy was wicked good at drawing and shooting. Sorry, you lose. Sadly, so does the dumb woman in the car.
michael molovinsky
Regardless the claim that Good was not reckless is DOA.
The officer will not get prosecuted.
michael “call me gunslinger” molovinsky says: If you were ever hit by a car (I was), and if you target shoot (I do), you do not get hit by a car and then fire 3 rounds.
Gunslinger Mike is also the alleged conservative Second Amendment patriot who earlier said Hillary Clinton’s promise to ban what Democrats call “assault weapons” was what Gunslingin’ Mike analyzed to be pragmatic gun control that honors the Second Amendment.
Gunslingin’ Mike is going to give combat veteran Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz (who assured Americans he fought in combat with an AR15) stiff competition for the Walter Mitty Award.
The internet does not forget Gunslingin’ Mike’s previous display of expertise in analyzing Clinton’s intended gun bans.
Cheap Fake gun expert as well as Cheap Fake conservative.
You would be wrong Michael.
She put herself in this spot. No one else did. Cutting off the ICE truck with her car, then failing to follow the orders by the officer to get out cause her death!.
Whether it’s CA, MN, NY, IL or any other blue state where immigrants live, Democrats use the latter as personal property. Democrats used blacks as slaves, and today they use immigrants (aka people of color) as “our kids caregivers”. They have no shame.
What Americans do not realize is that Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), once the Federal agency that handled immigration, has always engaged in catching illegal immigrants and placing them on buses to deport them. I used to see buses parked on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach when I was young. INS would routinely visit hotels, restaurants and other businesses in Miami Beach to search for illegal immigrants. Once caught, they would be placed on INS buses and deported.
No one said a word. The Miami Herald, a far-left leaning periodical at the time, wrote nothing about these INS raids. The local TV news stations never reported on any of these INS captures. Thus for the Left to suddenly find cause to defend illegal immigrants against the Feds, has nothing to do with human rights or justice. The Left uses immigrants for their personal gain, hence the following Minnesota Star Tribune OpEd piece:
When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe
The staff member who was taken by immigration enforcement greeted my kids by name, wiped tears, tied shoes and helped create the stable environment every child deserves.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-immigration-enforcement-raids-arrests-minneapolis/601560263
the piece is sickening. Left wing whites are too “busy” to care for their white children, so they use immigrants to parent them.
disable java script if you are met with a paywall.
The satire writes itself. The Babylon Bee reported that Dems again want to declare civil war to ensure they don’t lose their servants.
America is just like any other nation in this regard: we want legal immigrants, we don’t want illegal immigrants. All of the left’s propaganda is based on a failure to make that important distinction.
The left is also anti-democratic. The immigration laws on the books are the result of a democratic process in which the people’s duly elected officials make the laws, and the executive enforces those laws. When it comes to the valid and duly-enacted immigration laws, the left hates that. They want to stop democracy in action. Most Democrats nowadays are the very opposite of what their party name implies.
Was the decision to annex Greenland arrived at democratically?
Did Congress vote on this issue ?
Did the American people hold a referendum on the issue of Greenland?
We have not annexed Greenland.
The US has wanted to since atleast 1945.
All trump has done is changed the priority.
Was the decision to annex Greenland arrived at democratically?
When did we annex Greenland? And how are we doing with WW3 you informed us Trump had just started when he bombed Iran/Biden’s nuclear weapons facility over seven months ago?
How many KIA have we lost so far?
. More importantly it increases the census population for representation in the House causing ALL elections to be invalid. French and English nannies are generally sponsored as domestics, Estovir.
Correct, they don’t use u-haul trailers either. Was mar a lago a no knock warrant with uhaul?
Absurd
OT
New officer cell phone video, she ran him down.
Where?
On the street in Minneapolis…
Her spouse may be implicated and charged, as well.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/01/09/new_video_shows_minneapolis_shooting_from_perspective_of_ice_officer.html
Beer For My Horses
He literally stands in front of the car for 4 entire seconds filming the driver through the windshield (between seconds 9 and 13 of his own vide). If her intent was to run him over she had 4 seconds to do it. So A) this shows a complete lack of situational awareness on his part to stand in front of an idling car B) he was not concerned that she had the intent to harm him otherwise I doubt he would have so causally sauntered in front of the car and also C) this proves she had no intent to harm him – otherwise she would have utilized those 4 seconds to do so. But sure – try to spin it another way.
ATS, as usual you didn’t give that comment much thought, which is why you’ve earned the nickname ATS. There is nothing dangerous about standing in front of an idling car. People do it millions of times every day. He had every right to stand in front of her car an not expect to be mowed down. The proof is her mowing him down is such an outlier, one we virtually never hear about because it virtually never happens.
As for hi not being concerned she intended to mow him down, well duh, that’s the whole point, genius. But whether it was one, two, or three seconds later, she stepped on the accelerator with him in front. Perhaps a murderer gives off no sign of intent to murder before pulling the trigger, does that make him less of a murderer? Does that mean that when he pulled the trigger he didn’t intend to shoot anyone because, the the preceding three seconds, he did not show any intent to murder?
Besides which, her subjective intention is irrelevant. The only relevant question is whether he was justified based on the facts of what was actually happening, not what her internal mental state was.
oldman
You seem to think that there is nothing dangerous about standing in front of an idling car.
In fact, it is possibly the most dangerous thing an officer can do, and ICE agents are told to NEVER stand in front of an idling vehicle, as are ALL law enforcement officers.
I would refer you to a report from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Use of Force Review.
This report states that ICE became aware that officers were INTENTIONALLY placing themselves at the front of vehicles to justify firing their weapons at drivers. They told officers to stop doing this and issued new guidelines requiring them to get out of the way of fleeing vehicles. They are told that deadly force is acceptable only in the most extreme circumstances.
The reasons for this are obvious. If an officer shoots the driver of a vehicle, then the vehicle becomes an unguided missile of destruction that could kill innocent bystanders.
As noted this officer stood in front of the vehicle for 4 seconds videotaping the victim through the windshield.
https://www.policeforum.org/assets/PERFCBPUOF.pdf
(See page 8)
An excerpt follows:
Shooting at Vehicles
Fifteen cases were reviewed where shots were fired at or into vehicles by CBP agents.
Observations:
Based on a review of the submitted cases, it appears that CBP practice allows shooting at
the driver of any suspect vehicle that comes in the direction of agents. It is suspected that
in many vehicle shooting cases, the subject driver was attempting to flee from the agents
who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing
themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force. In most
of these cases, the agents have stated that they were shooting at the driver of a vehicle
that was coming at them and posing an imminent threat to their life. In some cases,
passengers were struck by agents’ gunfire. Little focus has been placed on defensive
tactics that could have been used by shooting agents such as getting out of the way. It
should be recognized that a ½ ounce (200 grain) bullet is unlikely to stop a 4,000 pound
moving vehicle, and if the driver of the approaching vehicle is disabled by a bullet, the
vehicle will become a totally unguided threat. Obviously, shooting at a moving vehicle
can pose a risk to bystanders including other agents.
The cases suggest that some of the shots at suspect vehicles are taken out of frustration
when agents who are on foot have no other way of detaining suspects who are fleeing in a
vehicle.
Most reviewed cases involved non-violent suspects who posed no threat other than a
moving vehicle.
There is little doubt that the safest course for an agent faced with an oncoming vehicle is
to get out of the way of the vehicle.
NOTE:
The report says that they have evidence that ICE agents have been DELIBERATELY standing in front of vehicles for the purpose of provoking a situation where they can justify using deadly force.
ATS – Police officers deliberately put themselves in dangerous situations to protect the rest of us all the time.
The key thing the video shows is that Good lost control when she realized the other Officer was going to arrest her.
Out of control people driving 5000lb SUVs are dangerous
What is really troubling is that it took this video to convince many people,
when it was OBVIOUS from any of the prior videos that this shoot was justified.
As to the rest of your stuff.
There is only one reason it is dangerous for a police officer to be infront of an idling vehcle.
That is because the DRIVER might do something dangerous.
All kinds of people stand in front of idling vehcles all the time.
Have you ever crossed the street at a busy intersection ?
Lets assume (falsely) that the officer disobeyed policies or guidelines.
That STILL changes nothing.
I know this is really hard for you left wing nuts – but people are responsible for their own actions.
Good made a bad choice – either recklessly or intentionally- it does not matter.
nd paid the ultimate price.
That happens sometimes.
That is one of th reasons that Democrats should be telling people
DO NOT F$#K arround with ANY LEOs
If you want to protest – do so where it will make a difference.
If you wish to observe and report – make SURE you do not come within 100 miles of itnerfering with LEOs.
Democrats keep rolling the dice hoping for another george Floyd – only this time for real.
And if you keep this nonsense up – you eventually will get that.
There have been nearly a million ICE arrests. With all that is going on it is surprising that an Agent has not lost their cool and dones something stupid. If you pressure them long enough – that WILL happen.
But likely BEfore you get your george floyd moment you will have dozens of Irene Goods and hundreds of people like Good arested and charged with felonies.
I would refer you to a report from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Use of Force Review.
You’re lying. That “report” was done by a self-selecting organization, PERF, of young 30-something aged civilian “experts”. Yet not a single one of whose analysts claims to have worked even at least as a mall cop. Heavy on sociology and gender awareness issue college degrees instead.
Oh… and it was done almost 15 years ago… while they were agreeing with President Obama that American police were systemically racist and spent their shifts hunting young black Americans to murder.
They and their “report” match your credibility!
Ano
You seem to think that there is nothing dangerous about standing in front of an idling car.
In fact, it is possibly the most dangerous thing an officer can do, and ICE agents are told to NEVER stand in front of an idling vehicle, as are ALL law enforcement officers.
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Wrong. She put car between the ICE truck and the officers. The officer walking up to her ( You can hear him say you are under arrest)
She instead hit the gas. The fault lies with her.
Has she not blocked the ICE truck with her car. This event would have never happened and she would have a nice evening with her child.
you used a 2013 PERF recommendation solicited by CPB, clown. .Try updating the ACTUAL policies
That is supposed to be relevant in court.
But the HUGE issue right now is the court of public opinion.
This Video ends this and protests us all for more stupid George Floyd type riots.
This video does not answer all questiosn – but it absolutely answers the critical one.
It is clear that when the officer shot her – she was dangerous.
Deliberately ? Recklessly ? don’t know – but the officer is justified if he resonably perceives her as dangerous.
Most of us got that from the start.
Left Wing nuts need to stick their fingers in the wounds to be sure.
“If her intent was to run him over she had 4 seconds to do it.”
She acts immediately after the other officer orders her out of the car.
That is the moment she starts to act.
That is the moment that her intent is formed.
I doubt she got up in the morning planning to run down an ICE officer.
Regardless – while it is arguable that the video shows intention to run down the officer.
What is more important is that innarguable the video shows intentional recklessnes and disregard for life or bodily injure.
She does not have to intentionally run the officer down.
All that is necescary is that it is clear that she does not care whether others are hurt.
That is what the video establishes.
^^^ It also shows his movement. He was not stationed. She punched it after spouse told her to and ran him down in less than 1 second.
These protesters are dangerous and should be treated as very dangerous.
“Ran him down?” He never left his feet. He never even dropped his phone. He was so unaffected by the van that he was able to NOT drop his camera AND draw his gun AND pull off 3 rounds – at least one of which was lethal. Pretty impressive for someone who was “run down.” If she wanted to have run him down, she could have easily. All she needed to do was utilize those 4 seconds the first time he walked in front of her van – OR turn the wheel to the left the second time he walked in front of her van.
He was so unaffected by the van . . .
. . . that he had to be taken to the hospital because he was hit by the van. Watch the Tim Pool analysis linked at 4:34 above, then come back and revise your statement. I doubt you’ll actually watch it because you know it will prove you wrong, and you don’t want to see inconvenient facts.
It’s not a party out there ATS. LEOs are serious and expect to be on hair trigger guard and these two women goofing off not knowing who is being arrested- murderer, rapist, trafficker? These are dangerous fools at these protests.
There should be a zone around wherever they are or someone might be killed? Fools
Goofing around???? Cutting off and ICE truck in the middle of the street is goofing off.
Keep digging.
ATS – most people got this was justified before this video.
Now you have almost no one left.
You want o keep shilling nonsense – fine.
Almost no one is listening.
People have seen the video and there rejecting your spin.
What a fool. She was on icy road. She hit the gas, you heard the engine rev up and the tires are slipping on the road.
If you watch the video. The ICE officer pus his weapon when you hear the engine rev up.
Keep lying, it’s all you’ve got.
She should have gotten out of the car when the officer told her. But NO,lets be an azz.
Today was a good day and a bad one.
By the use of facts, using official CA office reports of the exodus from CA, U-Haul and IRS filings the tax impacts, the facts of billionaires buying property in other states, we have shown the exodus of CA continues not only of billionaires but of the middle and upper class. Using these facts, we refute the leftist narrative of their ever so failed policies.
We have also seen the newly acquired video of the tragic situation in MN. Have no doubt, it is truly tragic. It should of never happened if it were not the fact far-leftist Democrats cranked up the rage rhetoric to 11, inspiring people to place themselves in harms way for . . . what? To prevent LEOs from enforcing immigration laws that Congress approved? Without a doubt, the DNC is not only on the wrong side of history but of law and order.
Estovir mentioned that we are at war. I am afraid he is right.
Look how cheap real estate in Beverly Hills has gotten since everyone left.
https://www.movoto.com/beverly-hills-ca/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18164115505&gclid=CjwKCAiA64LLBhBhEiwA-Pxgu59f0-Q6pT-bCzPK-voIbbue_EOm8GWILSNHd9nwVEfphU-JYn6eShoCXIgQAvD_BwE
It’s no longer safe.
You mentioned water from the Columbia Water Shed, if you’re writing about the Lower Colorado water issue then tapping the Columbia and/or the Snake would be nothing more than a band-aid, plus they are also prone to draught. Increased population demand has out stripped supply: urban landscaping, and increased farm needs to support increased national population also. The stake holders of the Colorado Compact have been, and still are, twiddling their thumbs looking for solutions. IMHO the only reliable source would come from the upper mid-west or Lake Michigan, especially if you’re to consider the cap-ex investment to a guaranteed supply. General info Lake Michigan has +/- 1,150 cubic miles of H2o [one cubic mile equals + 3-million-acre feet]. Yea I know there are compacts, state, federal and foreign that would need addressing, but I’ll say it again population has outgrown supply. Power demand for system could come from generation at dams; new replacement power generations would need to be built, more localized avoiding long-distance transmission.
How would you move water from Lake Michigan to the West coast, over the Rocky Mts? There already have been analysis of the cost to move that much water over that distance, over that elevation, and it is economically feasible. Also, IIRC, Great Lakes states have already signed laws that they would not export their water.
*not economically feasible.
That’s the same statement made when considering Central Arizona Project.
How did they move oil across Alaska? How did they make a short cut from the Atlantic to the Pacific? Oh, yeah, the Panama Canal. How did William Mullholland redirect water from the Owens Valley to L.A.?
CA will have spent $200 billion on a train to nowhere to serve maybe 15% of the population.
A pipeline to the Columbia River would cost about $20 billion.
CA allows and advocates that immigrants come in by the millions to use more and more water while CA rations water to actual Americans and imposes use restrictions.
I once saw a proposal to tow icebergs through the water from the Arctic. Enough of the iceberg would still be unmelted to provide a lot of fresh water. It’s just a pipe dream but it recurs. Here’s a list of many hare-brained schemes (including the iceberg idea), and perhaps one of them will actually work in the future, who knows?
https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-water-solutions/
One wonders where all of this in California and NYC and, and, and – is going to lead. I suppose $50 trillion isn’t really that much more than $39 trillion. That’s about how much the Dems will give to California to bail them out. Americans are such IDIOT voters.
Time to lite out fer . . .the hell away from nut job territory. Red states, Ho!
Where the evacuees will continue to vote for the leftist politicians who caused the mess in CA.
“Time to lite out fer . . .the hell away from nut job territory. Red states, Ho!”
Alternatively, it’s long past time to take America back.
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“[We gave you] a republic, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
“We gave you a republic [without an insurrectonist Democratic Party], IF YOU CAN KEEP IT [from them].”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
At least California is sinking in more than one way. But when you have political leaders like governors, mayors and sheriffs, from other blue states waging war on the US Federal Government, it only confirms that Democrats have lost every political argument. They have no solutions, only violence.
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
So basically we have numerous blue states that are, at a minimum, in a rhetorical state of secession from the Union. Wild. All because they don’t want to enforce federal immigration laws.
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https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/2009615236031205397
Known here in Philadelphia by we Sheriff’s Department sheriffs who suffer the embarrassment of serving under her as Sheriff Bull Dyke. Not Sheriff Bilal. She’s a DEI promotion embarrassment to those of us who are black men and depend on meritocracy for every promotion we get.
She has a $32 million + budget and oversees court security, prisoner transportation to and from the court, as well as managing sheriff’s sales, court-ordered sales of foreclosed and tax-delinquent properties. We aren’t on the streets dealing with criminal “undocumented migrants” that she defends to our embarrassment. She can’t even do the job she gets paid a high six figure salary to do:
Sheriff Rochelle Bilal hit with second court order over deputy shortage. She blames the judges.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-sheriff-rochelle-bilal-court-order-security-judges-20250311.html
Illegal aliens are the Dem politicians life line. They can’t do without them. They will fire on Ft. Sumter if they have to but Dems want to keep their illegals as much as they wanted to keep their slaves in 1860.
Alpha News – (via X)
BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis
https://x.com/AlphaNews/status/2009679932289626385
Video:
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2009679667167399936/vid/avc1/1080×1920/h8pZFdIiCYdBj016.mp4
Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report
Update (1858):
The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE “warrior” and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to “document and resist” ICE operations in Minnesota.
By: Tyler Durden ~ Jan 09, 2026
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/left-wing-protest-industrial-complex-activates-across-multiple-cities-after-ice-involved
Ref. in Post:
Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting
By: Steven Vago, Chris Nesi and Natalie O’Neill ~ Jan. 8, 2026
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/
Yep. And that is the sound of the leftists narrative falling apart.
How marvelous.
Just think Upstate.
If she had just followed the orders by the ICE officer, she would still be able to protest today. But she didn’t
Do you know what is the really troubling thing about that video? They seem to treat the situation as if it were some pre-school game like cops and robbers, where do-overs or calling time out is the norm. Seriously, what is wrong with these people? Legit question, what is wrong with these people?
@Upstate
That’s because children who have never experienced anything real are in charge in many cases. They think it’s a game and they just get to home at the end, like soccer, or quidditch from Harry Potter. Really. This is the juvenile mentality behind so much, and the likes of Soros are happy to exploit that naiveté. And they do.
The ‘Minnesota mom’ was in that millennial cohort; I’m sure she thought in her entitlement that nothing bad could ever happen to her when she made her choices, completely negating the freewill of other people, and that is because she was raised and then educated to be completely indifferent to it. This is a hard fact a great many do not wish to acknowledge. She is the poster child for a lot of bad trends, but being in, ‘the wrong place’, isn’t one of them. And the people actually responsible will never take accountability, because their failures are too painful. And still, even with her death, they will not ever acknowledge this.
They do not want peace, just comfort. And those are two very different things.
James,
Thank you for your response. This entire situation is tragic from beginning to end. It need not happened. I do not blame either Good or the ICE LEO. I believe the blame lies with those Democrats who upped the rage rhetoric to 11. The ones who claimed she was murdered and it was ICE LEO who was at fault. Will they admit they were wrong or just double down on the anti-ICE rage rhetoric? Even in view of this new video, I fear the latter.
UF – absolutely there is lots of blame for the left.
To Walz and the Minnepolis mayor and all other blue governors and mayors.
If you have illegal aliens – particularly violent and dangerous ones in your jails.
Turn them over to ICE
Your defense of illegal aliens loses any moral high ground when it is criminals that you are defending.
And cut this crap about you do not want ICE in your neighborhoods arresting your citizens.
ICE is not arresting your citizens.
Regardless – these politicians have Goods blood and that or hurt or killed ICE officers on their hands.
But I am sorry – Good does not get off the hook.
The officers Video leaves the impression that Good was not trying to flee, but that she was actually enraged when the Officer ordered her out of the car. It makes it clear that her actions were reckless.
@Upstate
Same here, it’s beyond sad, but some saw this coming when that cohort were just kids. Nobody cared, and they still don’t. Your, ‘cops and robbers’ analogy is spot on.
These are 2 mothers. Where are the 3 children? Who is watching the 3 children? Why are they pretending to be super men who can stop a silver bullet like a DC Comics Superman character? They are trying to act like super tough alpha men, as women who have 3 children. They had just moved to Minneapolis as a couple. No career. No jobs. Nothing but time on their hands to foment chaos.
Roots in Activism: The Southside Family Charter School Connection
Good, who moved to Minneapolis last year, reportedly built her network of fellow activists through her 6-year-old son’s school, Southside Family Charter School.
The K-5 academy, founded in 1972, is known for its “unabashedly dedicated” focus on social justice. Sources close to the community suggest the school’s environment of political engagement served as a bridge for Good to join more radical groups like “ICE Watch.”
https://theridgewoodblog.net/inside-the-ice-watch-movement-the-activist-life-of-renee-nicole-good-revealed/
Per the video:
@0:13 driver is smiling while blocking the street with her car sideways
for the next several seconds both the driver and her wife are taunting the ICE officers
@0:37 an ICE officer instructs driver “out of the car” but the driver refuses, and her wife attempts to enter the passenger side of the car.
@0:39 driver is smirking
@0:40 the driver grabs the steering wheel and is literally staring at the ICE officer’s body cam.
@0:41 car engine is heard revving up
@0:42 audible thud sound is heard, the ICE officer screams and is physically hit presumably by the car
followed by gun shots.
Both of these women were reckless and irresponsible as adults, as mothers and as human beings. They are professional agitators, stoked by Democrats.
We are at war. Democrats started this and they continue to fan the flames.
Estovir,
Those are some very good questions. I wonder if the investigation will “find” some interesting accounting activities in her banking.
Again, in view of this new video footage, what will those Democrats do? Walk back their acquisitions? Or double down? And again, they are the ones I blame.
@Upstate
They are already doubling down. The modern left simply can’t be redeemed. 😐😐
I read the partner has a handyman business and they’re married. The deceased was a stay at home mother.
I notice you don’t mention between 0.09 and 0.13 seconds in the video when Ross is standing literally in front of the car. If her intent was to harm him, she had 4 entire seconds to run him down. But she didn’t. She sat in an idling car watching him. This proves that A) He wasn’t worried she was going to harm him, otherwise why would a trained agent stand directly in front of an idling car and B) she had no intent to hurt him – otherwise she would have.
You are dead wrong. Watch the Tim Pool analysis linked multiple times on this page.
. Good instantly followed the order of her spouse- drive drive…the door was locked on passengers side or both would have been in the car and both killed perhaps.
Let’s wait for forensics, ballistics. Was ICE picking up illegals, undocumented? Who?
Tragedy.
Minnesota is a renegade state and can be considered dangerous. DOT watch on interstates and fraud investigations. Minnesota will have to return stolen money whether they personally knew about it or not.
They’ve elected the officials. Spending federal money requires consent of all 50 States and consent for fraud won’t fly. Dig into your pockets whistlers and car run downs then the law might make sense to you. You can pay for what you want to do not others. Quite amazing…
It’s absurd
If her intent was to harm him, she had 4 entire seconds to run him down.
Four seconds to let her hatred of police finally boil over and let her rage take over control of what little rationality was left in her homosexual mind.
Rational mothers, with children depending on them at home, do not spend days devoted to stalking and obstructing police doing their sworn duty to arrest criminal Illegal Aliens.
. UF, they’re sub normal IQ. There’s nothing to do for it.
Remove, triage those wanting to leave and stop fed money. The nation of Minnesota. Close the interstates. ?
What is wrong with that video is that without it we would likely be facing BLM like riots.
It appears that the release of the officers cell video is sufficient this idiocy from the left is dying.
This is a common theme – anyone who has seen ALL of the Geroge Floyd Video – much of which was barred from Chauvins trial would grasp that the Video that ratchetted the left up only tells a small part of the story.
We have the same with J6 – the left successfully deluded the country with a selection of cherry picked video from J6 and then fought bitterly to avoid the release of anything else. Yet when the 100K+ hours of video became available – very quickly he narrative fell apart.
Of course most of us should have known just from the False color left wing nut videos of the Capital on J6 that leave you with the impression the capital is burning. Or the very carrefully framed video of the rickety Gallows that hides the fact that you could not hang a teddy bear from it and studiously avoids the BIG sign that says “This is Art”
It often takes very little to obliterate a left wing narative.
But if that very little is not made public rapidly – nationwide riots can ensue.
Tim Pool has the absolute best MUST WATCH analysis. Frame by frame. Scroll down to near the bottom of the post to watch Pool’s analysis.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/01/09/this-may-be-the-best-analysis-of-the-ice-shooting-video-yet-n4948085
When do multi millionaire politicians pay their fair share????
What are you talking about?
They are flat broke. That 501c that pays them is a charity!
They merely make their money ‘consulting’. They aren’t rich.
All that money their spouse made trading stocks is legit and they paid there taxes on it.
They would never cheat and lie to get a better rate on their mortgages….
When do multi millionaire politicians pay their fair share????
Good question: ask Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders and all the rest who complain “The Evil Rich Don’t Pay Their Fair Share”!
Every left wing program involves grabbing someone’s hard earned money, a chuck of that person’s life, at gun point. The lazy, the wasteful, the corrupt, thrive on promising ‘freebies’ to get votes. When the bills come due, the decent, the hard working, those who pay their own way, are screwed financially to pay them. So called democratic socialism is just outright communism under construction. No one with any brains and ambition should stay in any of the blue states, especially California.
Plantation owners don’t pick the cotton.
Their money is not “hard earned”.
for some reason leftys believe it’s greedy to want to keep what you decided to work hard for, and it’s not greedy to not work hard at all and instead take from those that do. Crazy right?
The trick is they got to get a mob to go along with the scheme.
Not hard to find a greedy mass of immoral people these days, they’ve separated themselves out by party for convenient identification.
Democrats are mob-rule so anything goes and individual rights are out, group-identity rights are in, they are purposely ill-defined too, and some animals are more equal, Republicans are individual rights-rule so, if anyone has any self-respect they pick themselves over the approval of the mob.
Ironically, the democrats mob-rule system was the ORIGINAL system of government for all of humanity, until a few fellas figured out how special human beings are and decided to protect them from the mob. The heart of the problem is actually low self-esteem, despite the Declaration of Independence pointing out these truths to everyone all these years.
Today is just another example of a dream “Where Life is Grand”! I do not feel sorry for California they have made the bed they must now lay in. When you consistently reelect nonsensical dreamers that tell you everything will be ok, we’ll just borrow more, ‘LIKE’ ya know ‘LIKE’ there’s a tree around every corner to pluck.
When Peter tires of being fooled and soaked to support Paul reality will force change.
California Budget: $321 billion, projected deficit $12 billion.
Anonymous is at it again telling us that firefighters in California are making a ton of money.
Indeed: Around $59,001/year (based on job postings).
CareerExplorer: Average of $77,640, with potential up to $123,750.
Glassdoor: Median total pay around $78,000-$82,000 (includes additional pay).
City. So $82,000 in California is making a ton of money.
Come on Anonymous please tell us your age. It has to end in the word teen even if chronically your fifty.
It has to end in the word teen even if chronically your fifty.
Since when does your age, 12 end in ‘teen’ you idiot. Yours right?
You really don’t think things thru eh?
Can’t count the number of times this idiot screws up. He thinks he’s an intellectual. LOL!
TiT, brought facts to the table. All you have are insults that amount to nothing.
Can’t count the number of times this idiot screws up. He thinks he’s an intellectual. LOL!
Way too early in the day for the first Democrat movie theater commie shyte show:
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where a deeply emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows mentally ill people to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
Speaking of idiots, I guess his reference to a fifty year old acting speaking with teenageer mentality went right over your head.
Firemen hang out at the station and sleep for a living while extinguishing 4 to 6 fires per year.
The line of applicants for one opening is about one mile long.
No self-respecting fireman in California makes less that $160K with 3-day weekends every week, all conceivable superior benefits, defined benefit retirement with massive COLA that increases pay constantly for the rest of his life, with a workload of “Individual Firefighter: Some report 4-6 structure fires a year on their shift, while in larger cities, it could be closer to one a month,” AI Overview.
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AI Overview
High-Demand Areas: Major cities (LA, SF Bay Area) and Cal Fire positions offer higher pay scales, with senior firefighters potentially earning $110k-$160k+.
Turley Writes:
“the only thing harder to find than a wealthy taxpayer in California..
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This reads like that old Yogi Berra saying, “Nobody eats there anymore. It’s gotten too crowded.”
A couple earning $400K with a $2M house would pay about $170K in taxes in California.
The Supreme Court allows the denial and disposition of private property, including the setting of wages, prices, rent, etc., and the control of products and enterprises, repeated perpetration of illegal union strikes, and the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. hired help).”
The tax proceeds go for illegal alien housing, sustenance, and healthcare, etc.; general free cash public assistance; and free healthcare and everything else for parasites, etc.
Actual Americans are forced to suffer and pay for foreign language translations for commercial and governmental transactions.
Water is mismanaged, expensive, and rationed while foreign immigrant water usage increases; $200B will have been spent on a train to nowhere that might serve 15% of the population, while a water pipeline to the Columbia River would have cost only $20B.
California, once populated by Americans, is a fully invaded and conquered (i.e., taxpayer subsidized) un-American and anti-American affirmative action third-world foreign s—hole country and state of madness.
Brave Americans fought and died for Europe, South Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, but they can’t fight for California; how does that —- work?
The Mexican flag waves.
Where is General George Armstrong Custer when you need him?
Where are the 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) and 3rd Infantry Division (Rock of the Marne) when you need them?