California Is an Unfunny Joke – HotAir
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Gavin Newsom has a decent shot at becoming the President of the United States, and that is only true because the Democratic Party is itself dangerously deranged. 





I came back home from shopping and opened up my browser to see John’s article about the $100 billion increase in the cost of the California high-speed rail train to nowhere. 

A couple of weeks ago, back in the good ol’ days, 60 Minutes did a story ripping the train, which at the time was to cost ONLY $130 billion or so, which was only a bit more than four times the costs estimated when California voters were conned into voting for this boondoggle. 

Anybody who knew anything, which is to say NOT the California voters, who will buy anything a Democrat tries to sell them, knew that the price tag presented to the taxpayers was total fiction. Certainly, the politicians and engineers knew, but building a train was never the point. The graft was, which is why, decades later and years after the train was supposed to be up and running, billions of dollars have been spent and not one inch of track has been laid. 

It’s quaint to see the 60 Minutes interviews from earlier this month. It was so long ago, and from a much more innocent time. We thought the $100 billion price increase back then was outrageous. Nope. Add another $100 billion, and we all know that number is just as big a lie. 





Every single California project, program, or regulation is about scamming taxpayers and increasing the power and pocketbooks of California politicians and their friends, plus dumping cash into the coffers of the Democratic Party. Literally NOTHING is about what they claim. 

Fix homelessness? Where did those billions spent on Gavin Newsom’s 18 years of spending on his 10-year plan to eliminate homelessness? 





Nobody knows, because it can’t be audited. The money is gone, and the homeless numbers have increased. Which was the whole point. If you solve the problem, the money evaporates, and the machine must be fueled. 

High-speed rail is, in the United States, a profoundly stupid idea. You need to connect one very dense area to another very dense area, and have the places close enough to rival the speed of airplanes, cheap enough to make economic sense, and have a route that doesn’t destroy everything in its path. 

High-speed rail keeps getting boosters to sign up because it looks and sounds cool. But they are selling the sizzle, not the tough-as-leather steak. 





But that is true for all Big Blue Blowout projects, which are all about promises that, for some reason, people swallow time and again, even though precisely zero have succeeded in the past. 

California needs water projects. But they aren’t sexy. Instead we get this:

The secret to Newsom’s success, as it is with every Democratic Party politician, is that they have created a base that includes relatively intelligent, overeducated, and overcredentialed voters who are more moved by words than actual results, and adds to that group clients and employees of government. Basically, AWFLs and public employee unions, along with NGOs. Throw in some radicals, and you have the Democratic Party. 

The clients of government love the waste, and the overly emotional AWFLs love the pretty words and promises, and are indifferent to reality. 

California schools’ quality declines, but that’s OK because Newsom says great things about teachers and the importance of education. 

Just as these AWFLs hate Trump for his mean words, and are moved to defend pedophiles if the media says they are our neighbors, they embrace politicians like Newsom and Mamdani because they love the image they project. Good looking, smooth talking, all psychopathic fake empathy projection. 





If we think that these voters will be moved by being slapped in the face by reality—seeing that their $30 billion wondertrain has turned into a soon-to-be half-a-trillion-dollar (those hundred-billion-dollar increments will keep coming, along with the delays)—we would be wrong. 

It’s the words. It’s always the words. When the project finally collapses, they won’t see it as an object lesson or a failure. 

Gavin TRIED, and wasn’t that nice of him?


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