Is ‘Villaraigosa’ Spanish for ‘Village Idiot’?
But it does get the Democrats votes. In fact, it is the primary thing that gets them votes these days, now that union membership is dwindling.
So Antonio Villaraigosa could be a cross between a pederast and a serial killer and the Dems might still bring him out, given the effectiveness of the strategy. And, alas, it has forced Republicans to play the same game, bringing forth minority after minority at the convention.
Of course, the likes of Marco Rubio, Condoleezza Rice, and Susana Martinez are by several degrees (1000?) superior to Villaraigosa. But never mind — in true Catch-22 fashion, Republicans are accused of racial pandering for highlighting these people.
Unfortunately, there is some truth to this. Race and religion should have nothing whatsoever to do with our politics or who speaks at a convention. Policy and accomplishment should. But if they were, the current election would be Armageddon for the Democrats. They have no discernible policies and their record is disastrous.
But speaking of racial/religious politics and Los Angeles, I would be remiss (ducking the question?) if I didn’t mention the role of my co-religionists who permeate, if not dominate, the politics of West L.A. — you know, those folks who famously “live like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.”
Although some are skeptical, this year, for the first time in recent memory, there are hints they will not vote so monolithically Democratic. It’s not just Obama’s attitude toward Israel (still kept in a locked box by the Los Angeles Times) but also the obvious fact that Jews too have been hurt by the economic downturn. (Well, perhaps not Steven Spielberg.)
The laudable part of Jewish liberalism was always concern for the other. That was a good thing. But these days it no longer makes sense, if it ever did. Why vote like a Puerto Rican if, in so doing, you actually hurt the Puerto Ricans? Some Jews are starting to learn that lesson. When even more do, we may reach a tipping point and, who knows, Jews could even follow the path of Governor Martinez.
The sooner the better.
Roger, I’ve actually been to a restaurant which I seem to remember was black-owned, and they didn’t call 1/2 iced tea and 1/2 lemonade an Arnold Palmer…they called it a Tiger Woods. Because of his Asian heritage, no doubt…
Village idiot?
Or village OF idiots?
Roger, they’re trotting this tool out because he’s just about the highest “profile” Hispanic that currently resides in the [Social] Democratic Party. Unlike the GOP who can show a couple of US senators, several governors, as well as dozens of mayors, state rep’s and state senators…Villaraigosa is it.
He’s the best they can do…and he’ll FUBAR it just as the Dem’s have FUBAR’d the state of California, New York…etc…
They have the Sanchez sisters. Oh wait they’re idiots in any language.
They’re trotting him out because they needed someone to make Obama look qualified by comparison.
And he really made himself look even more stupider by being inarticulate in his remarks at the DNC, LOL!!! And this guy thinks he can be elected California Governor one day?? Good Lord…
The racism charge has been so often trotted out, so overused and abused, that it is now trivialized and ignored. Worse, the charge of racism, more often then not, elicits a snicker. It no longer evokes fear, merely disdain; recognized as a code word excusing criminal activity, ignorance and failure. When mouthed by the likes of the Rev Jesse and the Rev Al, outright laughter. And now that gay marriage is the new civil rights battle for the 21st century, we’ve moved into farce.
Even the liberal Jon Stewart did a segment on “The Race Card is Maxed Out.”
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-5-2010/race-card-is-maxed-out
Even young people aren’t buying this racial stuff anymore. A poll taken a couple of years ago of young black Americans asked them if they personally had been the victims of racism or racial discrimination. A clear majority said no.
Sickening. I met Villaraigosa briefly in 1993 or so before his career took off. At the time I lived in Echo Park, and Antonio was canvassing for some position or other. He seemed nice until I asked him a few questions – and then it was obvious he didn’t want to waste any precious time answering. At the time I was a moderate Democrat, so it isn’t as if my queries were hostile. He immediately stopped maintaining eye contact, fumbled with his papers, and mumbled he had to be moving on. It was pretty innocuous, and tho I didn’t catch his name, (he was a complete unknown at the time), I definitely noticed his striking looks… His tuning out my questions bugged me a bit, but to give credit, he was the first and only politician who ever bothered to knock on my door during 30+ years in California… Anyway, later that afternoon, my neighbor and I were getting together for a drink, and she told me this very handsome Hispanic guy had knocked on her door to talk politics, but in the middle of his spiel this guy had just blurted out that he’d like to take her to a movie or something. Now maybe she was the first and only woman he hit on that day, I can’t tell, but what kind of scum bag does that in the middle of his political pitch? Within a year or two he’d gained some prominence and his visage began appearing in the media, and I put two and two together as to who had come a-knocking that day.
Villaraigosa is the Hispanic Obama. Clean, articulate, well spoken, and full of shit beyong reckoning. His ascendancy in LA, along with the fact that vast stretches now appear more like Tijuana than the USA are a couple huge reasons I finally decided to move back to the Midwest… I loved LA until it was gradually turned into a third world sewer and vast money machine to finance the subversion of American culture. I still have many hispanic friends, but on the topic of immigration, they prove unable and unwilling to be true Americans when the topic of the illegal invasion comes up. This is extremely painful to see, as I otherwise think my hispanic friends are decent. This is what convinced me that the situation in California is hopeless.
Villaraigosa made LA a “sanctuary city”, and annually indebts Los Angeles and Angelenos to the tune of $1,000,000,000 (one BILLION$) for “services” to his invading fellow non-white non-Americans (incl “free” school, “free” medical, “free” legal aid, “free” food, “free” housing, etc)
Great crimes have been committed against America by the treasonous and racist Left. I’m not sure their cancer is curable, the damage and decay is so utterly widespread. If California ever tried to claim itself back into being a bona fide part of America again, the vile, treasonous and criminal conduct and framing by scum like Villaraigosa and Obama guarantee that massive violence and civil war would be the reult. The vile Left knows full well what it has been doing. They have been waging their poison-pill takeover with the gimlet eye of psychopaths, traitors, and crime syndicate bosses for decades.
Good old Echo Park, the smoking ruins of which Villaraigosa stood over a couple of years ago angrily crowing “This is a people’s park!” Like every leftist toehold, no “people” would ever set foot there because it’s been taken over by criminals and creeps. But what the hey, at least he spoke in English that time. By the way, is holding a weekly Spanish-only press conference considered “speaking in code”? Any ethnic dog-whistle there? He seems to be telling his illegal supporters something (as well as the pretty reporters whose careers he ruins).
It makes me sick to think of how great L.A. could be without rapacious tools like Vilar and his supporters. The schools it could have, the parks, beaches where you wouldn’t have to pay ten bucks to park, and maybe some imaginative public works projects that would figure out how to create a community out of a city of wide streets and fast cars. The place is begging for a couple of giants to make it truly great, but instead it has a million ants chewing it to death.
Clearly you haven’t been to LA in a long while. Echo Park and Silverlake are upscale now, not full of bums at all. Reurbanizing whites took them over and built everything back up along with sky high rent, which has forced most of the Hispanic population out. LA is much less racially segregated than many US cities but it’s getting worse.
Fascinating! I went to Echo Park for the festival (dragon boats, moons) in 2005 and I was afraid to park in the neighborhood. I did anyway and the park was a littered mess and the festival was a dud. Gee, Villaraigosa must be sad to see the passing of “the people’s park.”
Your story sounds like the story my dad used to tell me about when John Lindsay came knocking at our apartment door in 1958 when he was campaigning for the congressional seat on the East Side of Manhattan. Handsome guy who did the legwork, but my dad said after voting for him once, he never did again because he lied about what he would do if elected (and like Villaraigosa, Lindsay proved a decade later to be a horrific mayor who still managed to get re-elected by liberal NYC voters).
I agree with everything you said about Villaraigosa and the sorry state of L.A. under his corrupt and incompetent “leadership”, except for your assertion that he’s “well-spoken and articulate”. Villaraigosa is a terminally stupid man and an atrociously bad public speaker. I’m sure the reason he ducked your questions was because he couldn’t answer them. He’s an ex-gang member who belonged to La Mecha when he attended UCLA (and has refused to repudiate the group’s radical beliefs) and went on to flunk the bar exam four times. If it weren’t for the thoroughly racist Democrat Party, affirmative action and white guilt he’d be living in deserved obscurity.
Newly elected Mexican President, Enrique Pena Nieto, has some parallels with Villaraigosa.
Telegenic, not overly intelligent, out of wedlock children, metrosexual.
Yes, agree except for well spoken. As he always says, he’s the “mare of al-lay.”
Whenever I’m in LA what strikes me is the use of big green signs everywhere touting that this building or that was built by some petty councilman or the other. I haven’t seen huge portraits, but o/w it looks like SAddam’s Baghdad!
Totally third world political system.
What gang was he in?
Sounds like Villaraigosa was trolling for women, not votes.
Then you’ve got to admire the hounddog’s ambition – it worked for Bill Clinton.
Meanwhile, listen to the silence of the NOW WOW BOW WOWs.
Silence, except for the squeak of their kneepads on linoleum.
Well said!!! I agree with everything you say about L.A. It is sad, because L.A. used to be a first-rate city. The same also can really be said for all of Southern California. What happened to this place??? It really once was a golden area. What is scary is that the village idiot Villaraigosa(I call him “Villalaraza”)is already possibly looking ahead to running for Governor, and that would just spell doom for ALL of California, not just L.A. because I can just see him getting elected:(
Great article Mr. Simon.
Someday this racism bit will finally play out, and the leftist will still be left with a bankrupt philosphy. Hopefully, we will last as a society until then.
Speaking of bankrupt ideas. Loved this phrase:
“Since the dems have no real ideology or program anymore, Keynesian economics having been shipwrecked off the coast of Greece…”
I don’t ever see racism playing out. It is a huge industry – entrenched in government bureaus, academic departments, business human reources staff and policies. In short, permanently embedded.
Too many vested interests need to fuel the specter of racism otherwise they have no job and worse – no framework for relating normally to people that are different from them.
It may take a while, but “never” is a very long time. History shows that ideologies must be supported by truth to last. The institutionalized racism America you bring up is part of a house of cards waiting for the right puff of wind to finally blow it down. The Berlin wall eventually came down as did slavery in America and many other more entrenched lies in the world. It should be a source of optimism for anyone on the right. Reality is on our side. Don’t worry or lose faith, Whatmeworry.
Prior to the Civil War the Democratic Party owned the South and was the Party of Slavery.
The Republican Party freed the slaves.
After the Civil War the Democratic Party owned the South and invented “Jim Crow” to put blacks back into bondage.
Real liberals working with Republicans passed the Civil Rights Bill and again freed the slaves.
The Democrats passed “The Great Society” to put blacks back into bondage.
The Democrats passed “Affirmative Action” to cement blacks into bondage.
The Democrats created “Public Housing” to lure blacks onto the plantation.
The Democrats passed various “green initiatives” to de-blackify some select wealthy urban areas.
The Democrats passed the “Community Redevelopment Act” to strip successful blacks of their wealth.
RINOs are asking “how can we buy some of the black vote”? Republicans are asking “how many times do we have to free the slaves”? Conservatives are saying “you can’t save people intent on self-destruction. It doesn’t matter if it’s Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Women, Gays, or poodle-loving heterosexual burly men, if people are determined to trade their freedom, liberty and future for a shiny bauble that will soon tarnish then the world’s full of predators to prey on them. Compared to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party Jerry Sandusky is a piker who preyed on tens of boys when were millions available. Is it any wonder that people are asking if Harry Reid is a pederast?”
This comment makes me wish pjm had like buttons
I would agree…Well said Chris S
“had like buttons?” Please explain.
Thank you! Your list of Democrat betrayals needs to be shouted over and over again. Only liberal/progressive liars could so brazenly rewrite history, donning the cloak of phony compassion to cynically dupe whole groups of people in order to grasp and maintain power.
Well done sir.
PJMedia has by far the best comments anywhere
You’ve obviously never tangled with a Standard Poodle. They’re serious hunting dogs, as masculine as Labs, and a lot meaner.
“Jews too have been hurt by the economic downturn. (Well, perhaps not Steven Spielberg.)”
Have you seen any of his past few movie bombs? I think even Steven is on hard times these days. But the point remains, by any objective examination of the Obama administration, you would have to say that he was a failure. Take a look at these statistics showing what life was like in 2009, when Obama became president, and what life is like now, almost four years later:
Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now
Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now
Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now
National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $15.9 trillion now
(Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/02/video-axelrod-dodges-the-better-off-four-years-ago-question/#undefined)
Now any rational person would look at that and say that the president has done a poor job and needs to be replaced. How the race is even close at this point is amazing to me. But, in any case, faced with these statistics, you would think that Obama couldn’t get a job as a street sweeper, let alone president of the United States. So, why are so many people still willing to vote for this loser?
Stubbornness, sheer stubbornness. There are a lot of people out there who just can’t admit that they were wrong voting for the guy back in 2008. All the evidence was there, that Obama never ran anything in his life, that he never ran a town, a city, or a state, let alone a corporation (even a small one). Yet this guy with almost no experience in anything was magically qualified to run the most complicated country and economy on the planet. Why? Because of “Hope and Change,” don’t ch’ya know.
This was the first president totally manufactured by the mainstream media, who were willing accomplices in getting this empty suit (or empty chair, take your pick) elected. And now the mainstream media, along with all of the people that were duped by them, have to admit that they were not only wrong, but that the guy they supported wasn’t qualified to be president in the first place. Nobody likes to admit that they were very, very, wrong, least of all the mainstream media. And most of the mainstream media is so in the tank for Obama that they are still unable to admit that this guy was a failure. They would rather keep supporting this loser rather than do what’s best for this country and see him go.
So how do you fight this stubbornness? I guess the only thing you can do is keep hitting people with facts and figures, like the ones I showed above. People will tolerate many things in this country, but constant poverty is NOT one of them. No matter how much Federal aid is out there, people want to make something of themselves and they do want a better future for themselves and their family.
I know, I know, there are those of you out there that think too many Americans are more than willing now to live off the fat of the government. Maybe that’s true. But at least from where I’m sitting, I still see many Americans that want to succeed, want to get ahead in life, and want a better tomorrow. I hope these people show up in droves on November 6 and throw Obama out of office. Because, if they don’t, if they can’t admit that they were wrong and at least try and obtain a better future by electing a new president, then we deserve what we get, and what we’ll get is Greece by 2016. And that’s just not acceptable to most clear-thinking Americans. At least I hope so.
No, not at all acceptable to “most clear thinking Americans”. But there are truly few of those.
Nearly all Americans are products of teachers from the 1960s onward. Their knowledge and understanding was received through movie and MTV imagery. Their morals are unwritten notions like Political Correctness, Multiculturalism and Green, the simple mention of which floods the undereducated individual with feelings of warm self-regard and rectitude. Yet each of those rubrics have unwritten definitions which the Left’s elites can mutate at their whim. Global warming is really global cooling. The ozone hole turned out to be a natural phenomenon, yet R12 refrigerants are still illegal.
In short, they have no minds. Words are fundamentals with which we construct thoughts — they are the variables within our mental algorithms. Yet American thinking consists of only rubrics without their codes.
And they sort themselves almost entirely into Democratic Party cohorts
Well said!!!
The thing about featuring Rice, Rubio and Martinez as speakers was their policy and accomplishment. Primarily the influence of their parents to take advantage of the freedom America offers to rise to your full potential. Rubio’s remarks about his father and mother, Rice’s start in life in the bosom of George Wallace’s south, and Martinez’s description of working for her father’s upstart business strapping on a 357 magnum as a teenager guarding a bingo game. The fact that they are “persons of color” only serves to shame the spoiled and lazy among us who live lives of miserable envy or suck at the public teat as perennially aggrieved.
I was just in the supermarket of my “vibrant urban community” this morning, and the conversation between another customer and the checkout clerk – both Hispanic – was VERY revealing. The clerk wanted to move back to Puerto Rico, where living is inexpensive, but there are no jobs. The customer had closed her restaurant business in South Carolina in 2010 and gone to New York City for work, but found the restaurant industry on the ropes and not hiring. Clerk observes, “And who do they blame? Poor Obama! Bush left him a mess!” I say, “Bush left him a mess four years ago. His policies haven’t worked.” Both fairly shout at me, “BUSH LEFT HIM A MESS!” and changed the subject.
Maybe the well-off white liberals and media professionals are just embarrassed and stubborn, but my observation is that the nonwhite working and nonworking poor are NOT merely stubborn. It’s much more personal than that: Obama is their symbol, sort of like the True King in ancient societies, who embodied the Land and the Nation. People who are identifying with a god-king are not considering the long-term impact of fiscal policy, to say the least. This isn’t politics, it’s religion. No number of competent, successful conservative Hispanics and blacks can make a dent in that. I’m afraid that if Obama loses, the resentment and sense of victimization among the nonwhite poor could tear the country apart, and if Obama wins, fiscal collapse will destroy us. Is there any way out of this apparent lose/lose situation?
You struck upon an interesting facet without actually intending to do so, I believe.
In their conversation, the two parties seemed also very provincial in their attitudes. By that I mean that closing the restaurant in SC, moving to NYC and also wanting to go back to PR tells me that they prefer to cloister among like-peoples. I consider that normal except when I take into account the cowardice that is implied by their attitudes.
1) That it’s all Bush’s fault
2) That there’s no way to be successful in anyplace other than the ones they want to go to. But they aren’t doing too well, so instead of exploring options as to where to go where people are doing well (red states) they prefer to ramble on about how horrible everything is because of Bush.
If you’re not part of the solution, even as regards your own welfare and security, you’re definitely part of the problem.
If you cannot see past your own nose when looking for ways to be successful, then you won’t be successful.
Thus we reach the impasse people are talking about here. It comes down to personal fortitude and the willingness to take a risk.
I had a friend who lived in the northeast. Wanted to be a pilot. Bought himself a plane while working at his factory job. Got his license, ratings, all the way up to his commercial certificate. Interviewed at one regional-jet carrier one time and was turned down. He came up with the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard, “I just didn’t look like the guys they were interviewing. I don’t have that ‘youthful look’ “. I had no idea what he meant but in the decades that I’ve known him, he has now sold his airplane, got married, and has chosen to stay in his “security blanket” area in the northeast. Granted, had he been hired, he may have had to commute or worse, actually move. His unwillingness to risk his security blanket told me that he would never actually go work for any airline because he “didn’t look like them”.
Sure the problems he had and has were probably deeper than that but part of it is the fact that his “troubles” were the result of other people’s not recognizing his skills. No explanation to the contrary would assuage his opinion that they didn’t want him. Fact is, you have to keep trying until eventually you get hired. It’s that way with all things. His excuses belied his actual desire to not be too far from home, to live in his familiar surroundings and not be too far from his favorite coffee shop. Sad. Pathetic even. But he never realized that his failure to become a professional pilot was due to his own attitude and not that of the hateful, mean, cruel world.
The hispanic customer and clerk are in the same “zone”. Fear, again is a huge motivator to do nothing. People seldom do anything without having some sort of guarantee of security. In my mid twenties, I risked all and moved and went to full-time college on my own dime. If I failed, it was on me. No place to fall back to. If I succeeded, there were some nice opportunities, one of which I had my eye on and was shooting for. Due to medical reasons, it never materialized but I used my experience and skills to get as close to that line of work as I could and I am quite good at it. But I’d never know that if I hadn’t taken the risk.
People often forget that even if you fail after taking a risk, you will inevitably learn something. It’s usually to your advantage and will prepare you for trying again, albeit smarter and with greater preparation. But life is not always that way and people fear risk because they cannot visualize themselves succeeding. Like my friend, fear of success is far more crippling than fear of failure.
we have reached the end of mankinds rule on this planet so this is what you get from mankind !!! , and it is not going to end well !!! , satan runs the show down here !!!
We are being ruled by people with 85 IQ’s.
Sure seems that way, except Villaraigosa is more an effect than a cause of Los Angeles’ looming collapse. It’s still OK to be a racist buffoon in LA; V is merely standing tall on the shoulders of many predecessors.
To this day you’ll hear little whining from the bastions of the cretinous left, i.e., nearly all the Westside, South Bay, Malibu, W Hollywood, Hollywood, S of Ventura Blvd, twee parts of Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Studio City and on and on… Does anyone believe they’ll change? Will Cher and Streisand lead the city to freedom?
They all forgot that it’s unwise to sh*t where you eat.
So let them eat cake? Well, not exactly.
Victor Davis Hansen answered those questions in his last column. The answer is simple: they move. Streisand, Cher, and many others have long decamped for the hills and shores of Malibu, in enclaves safely sealed from the scum they’ve dumped in your lap and mine.
Well look, I’m no happier about the Reconquesta than any other Anglo type, but as mayors of Los Angeles go, I sort of like Mr. Villaraigosa. My archetype for Los Angeles mayors remains Sam Yorty, an authentic banjo playing yahoo if there ever was one. The LA mayor (like the California governor) doesn’t have much actual power, so when Mr. V shows up at Laker games on free tickets and says he’s just doing his civic duty, I’m on his side! He’s clean and articulate. Waddaya want from a Democrat?
However, apparently the Democratic party apparat pulled out Joebiden and needed a new batman to go pester the Republicans, and Mayor V volunteered, and that’s what we see, Mr. V out there playing the hyperpartisan. He doesn’t DO that when he’s here at home, he’s just cutting ribbons and chasing skirts … which I hope he has had some time for while he’s been in Tampa, they say the strip clubs have been empty during the convention and the girls may need some comforting.
Villariagosa is just there for Latino boilerplate this week, because the Democrats know his record makes him non-viable outside of California. The Hispanic mayor they’re going to try and make a star this week is San Antonio’s Julian “Patty Lane” Castro, who will be the lead night keynote speaker in Charlotte.
Democrats believe the rising Hispanic population in Texas will give them the state within the next decade, but Ted Cruz’s win in the Senate primary threw a kink in their plans to paint the GOP as the state’s “all-white” party. So expect to see a ton of media puff pieces over the next three days on Castro, who is as liberal as Villariagosa, but benefits from being in a state far more conservative and pro-business than California, so that whatever screw-ups he causes at the local level are (for now) negated by the state’s overall positive climate (and Castro’s liberalism means, unlike Obama in Illinois, it’s going to be tough for him with his record to break through at the state level unless there’s a major Republican scandal in Austin or the state economy tanks due to an oil price plunge and Romney and the Republicans win the White House and Congress this fall).
I’m afraid that if Obama loses, the resentment and sense of victimization among the nonwhite poor could tear the country apart
We are already torn apart. It is time for that fact to get completely out in the open. The majority of Americans may finally see that they are expected to be slaves, toiling to provide goodies to those who won’t become Americans and those feel free to live off the fruits of other’s labor.
We have millions upon millions of TWANLOCs in this country, and too many Americans are still being “Minnesota nice” to people who have zero concept of American values and no loyalty.
They get violent, we get a huge wake up call and maybe some change that AMERICANS (of whatever color) can believe in.
Let the scum try;they’ll soon find out what the second amendment is for.
I found that old line about Jews living like Episcopelians and voting like Puerto Ricans amusing in light of some words in an email I recently received from a woman in my shul who faithfully attends my Torah class:
“My mother in law always voted Democrat until Mark Green said “I don’t need the Hispanic vote to win” at which point she & a million other Hispanics ran out & voted for Bloomberg, who was pretending at the time to be a Republican, saying, weirdly, “oh well, it doesn’t matter because Guliani will be running the city anyway.”
Could it be that New York Puerto Ricans recognize their self interest better than Jews who live like Episcopelians ?
All very true, Simon. The rotting corpse of the Democratic Party will degas as only corpses can and defenestrate reality for the entertainment of fellow zombs in Charlottesville this week. But despite the technicolored gory of it all it’s unlikely it will motivate enough voters to reelect O.
The situation in LA doesn’t sound like it’s going to get any better anytime soon. The powers-that-be in that state expect the Federal government to come to its rescue at some point. Even if O is reelected (shudder) dems in Congress will not fall on their swords for a state as badly managed as California. The thing that has always puzzled me about libs is that they seem fairly oblivious to the consequences of their policies until just before they’re crushed by them.
Once again for those of you who missed it the first 50 times I posted it:
“People get the Government they deserve”
This is especially true in California, where the whole process is a movie script.
No, that is BS even if you say it 500 times. People get the government that 51% or more of the people give them. Government has gotten so big and intrusive in many locations that it has passed the tipping point where greater than 50% of the voters are ensnared in a web of entitlement dependency, racial resentment, economic envy and everything else in the democratic play book. That is why our founders in their wisdom sought to minimize the functions of government. But we blew it and now all that is left is a slow descent into Euro-socialism, banana republic governance or worse. Time for civil disobedience. At some point the real minority – those who are not getting the government they deserve – should just refuse to pay and refuse to obey.
We here in LA refer to Tony Vilar a someone whom has never met a camera he didn’t like and that you better not get between him and the camera. He is the village idiot. He is the king of village idiots! Thank G-d, I actually live outside the city!
Roger, The following is something I expect coming out of the Lame Scream Media (LSM), “And, alas, it has forced Republicans to PLAY the same GAME, bringing forth minority after minority at the convention.”(caps For emphasis) The mere idea that Marco Rubio, Condoleezza Rice, and Susana Martinez are not legitimate faces of conservatives, let alone of the Republican Party, is racist. That you made such a lament gives aid and comfort to the bigots of the LSM. I for one do not see it as a game when showcasing stars and rising stars. I saw three people of poise, accomplishment and promise, not two Hispanics and a Black. Numbers games are for the Lib-tards.
A friend of mine who’s sister was married to an LA City Councilman went to many political events. He said of all the politicians he met during those times the worst was Mayor Tony. He said without a doubt that Villaraigosa would stab his own mother in the back to further his political career. I hope that isn’t coded racism.
MEChA and La Raza stooge, know-nothing mayor, pre-corrupted and ready for a fat patronage position with Obama should he take the election.
A collection of news clips, photos, and interviews pieced together and edited; featuring a background soundtrack of sound bites from Aretha Franklin’s epic song, “Chain of Fools.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34vecSRFeg&feature=player_embedded
Funny, I’ve heard his name many times, but never listened to him. Last night, Villaraigosa was interviewed on FOX and the word that came to mind was the one you used, “sleazy.”
I got the clear impression that, if I ever went to LA and wanted the company of a young lady of Hispanic heritage and low moral standards, Villaraigosa would be a good guy to call for references.
Wow… OTOH, let’s assume that there is some idiot with the surname Simon, would you be happy if somebody asks “is Simon synonym of Village Idiot?”.
Let’s the idiots be called idiots, for that’s what they deserve. Just don’t throw in there an entire surname like “Simon” or “Villaraigosa”.
Don’t worry about offending people by suggesting that Villaragosa is village idiot. He invented the name, amalgamating his and his wife’s names. Tony Villar is as fake as Obama, and that is pretty fake.
This is one of the strongest, most profound explanations of Dem malfeasance that I have ever read. I am so glad I woke up to it and changed parties. Thank you, Roger!
And the liberals continue to pander to those with an emotional maturity of a 15 year old (my apologies to all 15 year old citizens). Most likely it’s because they don’t appeal to any mature adults and must appeal to those that will buy into their rubbish.
– L.A. was improving until Villiar became mayor. Now only safe around LAPD HQ, which takes up three blocks.
“If Villaraigosa were an Anglo, they’d be hiding him under the bed.”
Disagree. They made an Anglo with Villaraigosa’s intellect Vice President of the United States.
Can someone please take Tony V away from Los Angeles. We have completely had enough of this guy. If this is an example of the young Dem line-up for the DNC, they are in big trouble.
So why are the Democrats trucking out this smarmy creep ?
For every Antonio Villaraigosa, there is a Sandra Fluke.
People besides Alan West need to begin pointing out that there is a new kind of slavery…the kind that enslaves minorities so that slimebag politicians can gain and remain in power.
The currency is taxpayer money, money taken from successful people and given to minorities SO THAT THEY will remain unsuccesful, and therefore beholden to the corrupt politicians who have been playing the game for 50 years.
It is so obvious now that maintstream people should begin saying out loud what they have known for decades to be the evil truth.
Is “Villaraigosa” Spanish for “village idiot”?
Yes. Next question?
Doug McIntyre of KABC790 AM here in Los Angeles interviewed Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz on the air a few weeks back, asking why she would select the failure/idiot Villaraigosa to chair the democrat convention. It was hilarious.
Blabbermouth was rolling out all the standard talking points about Villaraigosa being a “successful, visionary, Hispanic, pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, pro-big government, pro-high taxes, pro-green boondoggles, anti-growth, pro-little people, anti-business, pro-womanizer, etc, etc, etc.” [I may have embellished her comments a bit, but you get the idea] and Doug simply lowered the boom on her, rehearsing a list of Villaraigosa failures one after another and how the City of Los Angeles is facing bankruptcy.
Schultz was truly sandbagged, stopped and hung up. Not likely to call again.
But that didn’t stop the democrats from having the village idiot as their chairperson.
Apparently, financial mismanagement, overspending, sexual misconduct and bankruptcy are features, not bugs, of the democrat machine.
LOL! I love listening to Doug McIntyre, but sorry to say I missed that interview. Will look for it online…love the name Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz! Describes her perfectly!!
And what was with his constant use of the word “recession”, on Fox News Sunday, when he was clearly referring to the Great Depression? Was he being overly fastidious in response to a directive directive party leaders not to call the current crisis a depression?
“Don’t mention the Depression! I mentioned mentioned once, but I think think I got away with it.”
I have decided to call Obama the Black Custer in commemoration of what is going to happen to him at the polls this November 6.
This is one of the dumber things Mr. Simon has written. Dumb because it is willfully blind to human nature and human history.
Lets be clear: in all of human history, RACE and ETHNICITY and RELIGION matter. They matter a LOT. East Africans and Indians could not get along, and most East African nations expelled them after decolonization and independence. See for example Uganda. South Africa after Apartheid is not a rainbow nation but a seething mass of hatred, “kill the boer,” racial-ethnic-religious violence and spoils politics.
Who and Whom matter the most.
Democrats are rich coastal elites, mostly but not exclusively White (this includes Asians and Indians such as Vikram Pandit of Citigroup, and Indra Nooyi of Pepsico), who want money spent on their idiot obsessions and crony capitalism: “green” stuff, solar shills and crony bailouts, carbon credits to make Venture Capitalists on Sand Hill Road filthy rich, GE and GM’s crony deals and bailouts, etc. Most definitely including Hollywood.
In alliance with the coastal elites are non-Whites, particularly BLACKS and HISPANICS. Black people for the most part depend on anti-White quotas (about 90% of Metro Atlanta government employees are Black, with only 56% of the population Black) to create a middle class (they are not competitive in color-blind examinations and test scores). The Detroit-like underclass is 48% illiterate (in that city, adults not kids btw), and incapable of surviving without toleration of the illicit drug trade and welfare transfers.
Hispanics are little better. Democrats divide the spoils BASED ON RACE and class. Hispanic families for the vast majority DEPEND ON MONEY FROM WHITES to raise their kids. An example being SAUSD which has 98% of kids qualifying for the free/reduced MEAL program, so the district got a waiver from the USDA to provide them free to all kids. A single mother on who perhaps works part-time and sends a lot of money to Mexico (California sends over $10 billion a year to Mexico according to VDH here on this site) will ALWAYS need money forked over from White folks to pay for her five or six or seven kids.
ALL politics in the Welfare State are RACIAL. They always will be, they always have been.
Simon lives a fantasy world, where people won’t “care” about race and religion. They always have, they always will. A mono-racial/cultural society is necessary (but not sufficient) for high-trust and freedom. Multi-racial/multicultural societies are either despotic arrangements where a few castes/races are screwed over regularly, and everyone evades the despotic state, like India, or a highly unstable personal dictatorship (Tito, Stalin, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Sultanates).
Since neither Blacks or the Mexodus are going anywhere, I either want SOMETHING for paying for other people’s kids (like say the personal services of Salma Hayek) or I don’t want to pay for them at all. Nor do I want to vote or support any non-White guy.
I KNOW a non-White guy will ALWAYS when it counts, screw me over. The spoils pressure is too much. Example: Allen West who sided with Trayvon Martin’s parents, Eric Holder, the NAACP, and the Urban League in calling for an end to Concealed Carry laws, “stand your ground laws” and firearms ownership because he’s always going to side with Black thugs over potential White victims.
That was utterly predictable.
I want MY SPOILS. I am uninterested in some fantasy of race-neutrality, where it does not “matter.” I live in the real world, I want MY GROUP FIRST. I’m not interested in being a sucker. I know just White is not enough, but my first discard is the guys like Villaraigosa. Of COURSE Dems feature that guy.
Democrats are the Anti-White Guy Party: Coastal Elites, Blacks, Hispanics, Single White Women.
Republicans are the default White guy party.
I want my spoils. I want to come first. And I want to screw over the other guys. Hollywood ought to be required to give all their content for free. If you don’t like my attitude, it’s all your fault. You should have made me benefit from your system instead of giving me a raw deal.
Adam Carolla calls him Villaretardo. Says he failed the bar like 4 times. Great role model for LA’s dysfunctional schools.
Just curious how long it takes for Tony Vilar to hit on Sandra Fluke – and every other woman there. By the bye, I always understood that Tony didn’t change his name until he was caught cheating on his wife the first time. Thanks for clearing that up!
Also, he never did pass the bar (after attending an unaccredited law school). He was also a member (and may still be) of the racist Hispanic group MEChA. He lied about being raised by a single mother and having an alcoholic, abusive father. Interesting side-note: the second time he was *caught* having an affair it was with a reporter from Telemundo who was assigned to cover city hall. If’n I remember correctly, he was driving around to his affairs with taxpayer provided security and such.
He really is a used car salesman that got elected because he’s Hispanic. And our town has suffered for it ever since.
Villar needs a job.I hope far away from the poor wretches of L.A.and Calif. Maybe undersecy in the Tierra del Fuego Argentina Consulate in the 2nd Obama Junta.
TV template politicians,
dressed in gaudy robes
to expose souls of seran wrap;
Candidates of noone and nothing,
basking in light that emanates
from some unknown source/not theirs.
Messengers of the empty vessel,
carriers of the words of the vacuum:
each spun out and glistening/
as if concealing some meaning.
Villar gets a ton of money from builder/devolopers like KB Homes.
KB Homes gives to democrats so they will not be forced to hire union construction workers which would be poisen for residential construction.
“The Romney campaign released a reaction to the president’s speech before it was even delivered” – PlASTIC FAKE PEOPLE LIKE MITT ARE terrible.
Obama’s convention speech sets Twitter record