As you no doubt remember, the far-left in California was attempting to reinstitute racial discrimination with Proposition 16. Billionaire oligarchs had contributed about 20 million to Proposition 16, whereas opponents raised barely 2 million (95% from Asians) from small contributors.
With 73% of votes reported, the election has been called for the opponents. They are leading with 56% of the vote, outrunning Trump's vote by 23 votes. This is harbinger of what you can expect what will happen if the electorate gets polarized on the lines of identity politics - even California could come in play.
Proposition 16 passed 60-14 in the California Assembly and 30-10 in the Senate. What kind of a political class is this, where you can get a supermajority for something that is overwhelmingly rejected by a majority non-white, very left-wing electorate? Who are they representing? The billionaire oligarchs who were trying to buy this election?
Well, at least the Black National Socialist movement didn't succeed in re-institutionalizing racism.
California's desire to nationalize racism has been postponed...
The slow boil is the most dangerous, though. I'd have preferred it passed.
It's not like affirmative action isn't happening though. What would you expect to change if it did pass?
Overall, the props turned out well in CA. Rejected most of the bad, accepted most of the good. I think it shows people are doing their research locally, but they are simply overwhelmed by presidential politics and just vote based on MSM.
Not quite. A proposal to reclassify shoplifting under $950 was rejected (it was opposed by Mark Zuckerberg and Netflix CEO's wife). Another proposition supported by Lyft and Uber passed.
This was the only light spot in California.
People didn't like the DNA collection for misdemeanors on prop 20. Prop 15 got rightfully recognized as a cash grab and rejected. Prop 21 got shot down, which is actually very surprising and hopefully recognition that rent control is shit. Prop 22 was decided through driver opinion. Most people know a driver and asked their opinion. My friend drives for DoorDash and Uber and he wanted Yes and told everyone he knew.
Prop 22 is a trojan horse piece of crap. It basically is written as a carve out exemption specifically for a handful of existing companies and everyone else can get fucked.
It adds special criminal penalties to competitors that 'impersonate' rideshares (eg, being a taxi and not removing your sticker before getting fares) and mandates diversity training for any rideshare/driver companies that ever want to compete against them.
I honestly doubt that the billionaire oligarchs who were funding the opposition to Proposition 20 care about people's privacy. It was Mark Zuckerberg and the wife of the Netflix CEO.
Uber apparently threatened to stop operations if they were required to treat their employees like, well, employees. The amount of money that people make from working for these companies is a pittance.
People are on a huge pro-crime kick in CA. They aren't going to back off when literally every company in the Bay and LA is pro-BLM.
If they work for a pittance and are unhappy, they can leave. My friend is doing these apps, and he was doing fast food before. If Uber picks up and leaves, then he goes back to fast food.
Then they can quit and work somewhere else if they're not satisfied with the pay.
It's not up to you to decide how much people must be paid or what 'benefits' they must receive.
Hey dipshit, everyone is telling you that most actual drivers supported the prop, yet you keep insisting that they're actually oppressed. Who does that remind you of?
Bad news is if biden wins, there will be a national one.
Genuinely. Their Social Justice Credit Score Agency that they are proposing, along with a digital currency and digital wallet for said currency would be absolutely lethal to freedom in this country.
When you mix that with the permanent inflation and perpetual entitlement checks, it basically creates a FabIan Socialist Social Credit System in the US.
A national one would have to get past ACB.
I don't fucking trust her.
The judges seem to all be uniparty based. Scalia and Thomas will be the last true constitutionalist judges we see.
The stray thought had crossed my mind earlier that she might be a double agent just waiting in the wings to be activated when they need it, but I dismissed it. But it could be...?
"Okay ACB, vote no on the stupid 2nd Amendment restrictions we'll try to shove by as a distraction, but vote yes on the social credit system we want to institute"
Any reason?
Gorsuch turning out rotten?
It's just that so many of Trump's appointees have turned out to be swamp creatures and stabbed him in the back. Why should she be any different?
Since there are 3 Trump appointees, it's back-stabbing 3 times over then.
Same for a state one. The Harvard case is working itself up to the Supreme Court.
What about the law where rodents fleeing California have to continue paying state income tax?
I really don't understand why this happens but the left still dominated CA.
People may not be single issue voters, or they may have different single issues than we do. The corporate-owned Republican Party isn't exactly something to write home about, more like the lesser of the two evils.
Hopefully, a Josh Hawley/Tucker Carlson ticket in 2024 can sweep 50 states in the culmination of the Great Synthesis.
Its not left vs right, its the state vs the people. On this particular issue, the state jumped the gun. They should have waited another 10 or so years of slowly moving the overton window before trying it.
Big shit if they keep voting for the same blue retards over and over again.
They'll change words and try again.
The fact that the bartender, ted wheeler*, the great turban, and that beetlejuice lookin bitch still have their jobs is 100% undeniable proof that these leftist drones are universally mindless. Heard Portland finally has National Guard on the scene tonight. After the random chimps have already been destroying everything unchecked for...what are we, six months in?
California's variants are no different. "Hail Hydra" might as well be the leftist mantra.
*of course, while it's not saying much, at least lesser evil (barely) Wheeler isn't replaced by that anqueefer candidate.
While I was looking into the props to inform myself, I found this convenient page with a summary of Prop 209 in 1996 + relevant data(Prop 16 passing would have repealed 209):
California Proposition 209, Affirmative Action Initiative (1996)
According to the site, Prop 209 banned "discrimination against/preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin". In other words, equality. It makes you think, you'd have to be some kind of racist to vote against this right?
With that in mind, take a look at the data table right under the election results. It shows L.A. exit poll data from a survey of ~2500 voters, with percentages of votes for/against Prop 209 according to each group of demographics.
Now, people vote with their own interests in mind(and they should), so it's interesting to see which demographic groups believed that they would benefit from equal treatment, and which demographic groups believed that equal treatment would be a detriment.
(I'll give you a hint, it's exactly what you'd think it'd be)