Jim Treacher has a little fun with one of America’s silliest cities:
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today a moratorium on official city travel to Arizona after the state enacted a controversial new immigration law that directs local police to arrest those suspected of being in the country illegally.
AdvertisementCould we build a dome over that city? How is forcefield technology coming along? Or maybe we could get all these jailed illegal immigrants to dig a big moat around the place? Dos pájaros, una piedra.
Heh.™ Meanwhile, as the epistemic closure of the blue state mind rolls on, a beverage made in New York gets dubbed “the Drink of Fascists.”
Related: “What America is Michael Gerson living in?”
More: Jonah Goldberg and the Volokh Conspiracy’s Jonathan H. Adler each note the weapons-grade hypocrisy of those on the far left (including squishy RINOs such as Arnold Schwarzenegger) who favor state-by-state climate laws because they find the Fed’s laws too lax and not sufficiently business-killing for their region, and yet immediately violate 57 flavors of Godwin’s Law rhetorically trashing their ideological enemies when a state attempts to make its immigration laws tougher than the Feds.
Tangentially Related: Across the pond, more immigration-related anger from far left elites: “Meltdown: Open mic catches British PM calling voter bigoted.”
What would the Democrats be saying if white Canadians entered the United State illegally—and then later became staunch Republican voters?
What would the Democrats be saying if white Canadians entered the United State illegally and then voted Republican?
They’d call it a regime changing “Coup d’état”, that’s what.
Senator Diane Feinstein as mayor of San Francisco declared the city a “sanctuary” city for illegals. The state policy was essentially the same under the Democratic governor Grey Davis and now the schools are 50 percent hispanic. According to the 2002 census, 37 percent of Los Angeles county residents were not born in this country. It’s likely much higher now.
Needless to say, the state is now deep blue and unlikely to change. It provides a huge advantage for the Democrats in national power and the key was what amounted to an unlawful policy towards illegal immigrants. No wonder they call anyone to wants to actually enforce the law “racists” and “Nazis” – you’re talking about attacking their lifelines there.
It may be deep blue politically, but the California economy is sliding into the Pacific, so there is a bright red dusty hue in the Ca. sunset that can’t be entirely attributed to CO2.
They, being the voters who elect the California representatives making all the decisions along with the odd ballot initiative approved by the electorate and not overturned in the 9th circuit, should be allowed to slip quietly into the third world.
Loose California from her moorings with the rest of the United States, those few ties that remain, and allow her to become the cesspool she is so determined to be.
And so the U.S. picks up Puerto Rico and drops California. Fifty years ago, I would have thought that to be a crazy notion. Now, I figure it might be a good trade.
*Considers the trade on the one hand*
Unfortunate or not could such a trade be argued to be, it will not move us any closer towards 57 states.
*Considers the trade on the other hand*
But it may save the nation a massive bailout from the U.S. Treasury.
*Looks back to the first hand*
At least until they apply for foreign aid.