Politics as an alternative ...

Again, I apologize for posting on this sports forum about politics. First, I am not a Trump lover and one of the main reasons is his lack of Military service. I had 2 other choices for President and today after a year + I don’t like his tweeting & shooting from the hip that could alienate our allies and enemies even more. I repeat, I like a President who has done Military service and his feeling that his attendance at a Military prep school was the same is pure BS. Like Dubya, who at least was in the Reserves, their political contacts kept them out of active duty. I am not going to go into all the other things I dislike about Trump but the four things I like most are his business acumen, his strong desire to address annihilating ISIS, resolving the illegal alien issues and implementing a health plan that pleases all. But when it came down to 2 choices only, Hillary and Trump, my decision was easy. It is shameful and harmful the extreme polarization in our country today. We are divided over so many things, race, privacy issues, our national security, foreign, economic, social policies and a lot of other things too. Anyway, the comment was made about California and nobody commented on it so I wished or hoped to clear something up about the state’s status but most had negative responses to my, yup, soap box stance indeed. Only Cole made a response and I agree with it.

Cole:

"Of course the economy is growing...look at the deficits we're running every year and the prime rate practically zero. We've had the choke on since the 90's. The last time the economy was healthy was briefly during the .com boom in the 90's.

Currently all of our politicians are sending us off the edge...dems and repubs alike. All this spending is just borrowing more and more from china. Both sides are screwing us.”

More about the Golden State:


California has more immigrants than any other state & California is home to more than two million undocumented immigrants.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark "sanctuary state" legislation Thursday, vastly limiting who state and local law enforcement agencies can hold, question and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities. We are known as the sanctuary state !!!

Gov. Jerry Brown of California is entering his final year in public life riding high in opinion polls and generally praised by government officials..

However, Brown's and the state Democrats’ legacy is crime and homelessness.

California has more immigrants than any other state & California is home to more than two million undocumented immigrants.

34% of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California. Yup, an awful lot of voters getting freebies helping to keep it an 80% Democratic state.



Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tipped off immigrants about ICE raid and isn’t sorry she did and is unapologetic. On Tuesday night, just after completing a roundup of more than 150 suspected undocumented immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it could have arrested more but for the actions of one person: Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Calif. And California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s running for governor, commended Schaaf’s public warning, telling SFGate: “We can and must protect immigrant families from Donald Trump’s mass deportations. I want to thank Mayor Schaaf for her courage and hope more local leaders will follow her lead.” Yup, forget the legal citizens who now face robbery, drugs, assaults, rapes murders etc and all the pleasant things that evil thugs do.

In addition to Orange County, which had a homeless population of about 4,792, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco and San Diego had the highest populations of homeless individuals, according to a count taken on a single night in January 2017.

San Francisco Is A Literal S***hole, Public Defecation Map Reveals

There is an ongoing debate currently going on in the country about what locations can be classified as shitholes. The debate sprung from a report that Donald Trump referred to some third world countries as “shitholes” in a meeting with lawmakers last week. While the debate might rage on as to what constitutes a “shithole” of a country, one thing is not up for debate: the American city of San Francisco is a shithole.

Gov. Jerry Brown of California is entering his final year in public life riding high in opinion polls and generally praised by government officials.. Brown and the state Democrats’ legacy is crime and homelessness.