{"id":13037,"date":"2023-08-17T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=13037"},"modified":"2023-08-17T08:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:01:54","slug":"im-very-conflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/17\/im-very-conflicted\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m very conflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was thinking about removing the other half from the voter roles. There\u2019s no conflict there, it should be done for the sake of clarity and also to make sure that some damn mail in ballot  (Automatic in Kommifornia) doesn\u2019t end up being used in his name. What&#8217;s that old joke? Something about voting Democrat all your life and well beyond? I can&#8217;t remember&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then I got to thinking about it. Why not remove myself from he voter roles too? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve become so disheartened voting in California that I feel it\u2019s pointless. The recent Redistricting has reduced the power of what used to be a fairly conservative voting block in this area to almost nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our town is now part of Pasadena. The towns to the north have been sliced and divided into  the liberal gimme gimme gimme crowd in the large city North of  them, The other mountain communities have been folded into the crime ridden Democrat utopias in the valleys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this, mind you was done in the interest of \u201cJoining like minded communities, with similar needs.\u201d Uh Huh\u2026 sure, gerrymandering the lines the way it was done was about similar needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope! It was about weakening the voice of a fairly conservative block of voters in the mountain \/ high desert communities. Who by the way have almost nothing in common with the urban areas they were sliced and diced then distributed into. I can tell you without much doubt the only time Pasadena thinks about the mountains or the people living here is when they want to ski. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, the only concern they have for those of us who live here, is when they treat us like \u201cTHE HELP\u201d and bitch that their TESLA can\u2019t make it up the icy road. It\u2019s so gratifying to be coming out of the grocery store with a couple of items and be screamed at to \u201cDO YOUR JOB, clear this ice out so I can be on my way\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s also funny when a working guy who\u2019s walked a mile or two, to the grocery store to get milk for his kids whips out a largish buck knife and punctures the sidewalls of two of the TESLAS\u2019s tires as he walks by, never saying a word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve actually seen that happen. I thought the Tesla driver was going to have a stroke!  I\u2019ve also been screamed at as though I was a servant. I didn\u2019t have a large buck knife at the time. (I do now.) But I lost my shit at the woman screaming at me, demanding that I dig her out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that I didn\u2019t have a shovel so apparently this insane bitch thought I should be on my knees in the snow digging with my hands, instead of going back to my warm home with the goods I\u2019d just purchased in the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UHHH NOPE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told her to call AAA. She replied they told her the wait was going to be 6 hours. Well, I guess you\u2019ll have to wait 6 hours then\u2026 That\u2019s what started the extremely hostile exchange between that bitch and myself. She didn\u2019t seem to understand that 1) I didn\u2019t work for her.  2) The town wasn\u2019t like Disneyland or WestWorld. 3) That speaking to a free man like she was speaking to me less than 2 miles from his home wasn\u2019t likely to get her the desired result because surprise! I wasn\u2019t a slave. 4) I hate with every fiber of my being entitled skanks like her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did feel sorry for her son sitting in the back seat. He seemed truly mortified at his mother\u2019s behavior. Every time she started screaming, he slid further down in the seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of enterprising young men approached her with shovels, they had a large well equipped 4&#215;4, &amp; really nice tow straps, (the kind that are unlikely to do damage if they slip or break). They offered to get her back on her way for $500.00. These guys  directed her to the bank ATM because they wanted cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She really freaked out then. Threatening to give the town a bad review on yelp. The young men, several other locals, and myself all had a good laugh over that one.  Fuck Yelp!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She refused, and the young men left to go \u201cHelp\u201d the next unprepared moron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be pointed out, this particular moronic woman and he child were not in any danger whatsoever. They could retire to the grocery store, or any of the restaurants within easy walking distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I digress\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, I don\u2019t much see the point of voting in California anymore. I honestly don\u2019t see the point in voting in national elections anymore. The evil machine in Washington DC will NEVER release its parasitic hold on the levers of power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The never ending impeachment \/ indictment\/ sabotage \/ corruption \/ and double standards we\u2019ve see over the past 16 years in our Government is plenty of evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States of America is <strong><em>dead<\/em><\/strong>. May it rest in peace. The great experiment ran its course and the conclusion is humans were born to be dominated. When given freedom and justice they squander it, preferring instead to be ruled over by emperors, kings, dictators, or whatever else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bottom line is humanity desires to be slaves to anything, just as long as they don\u2019t have to be responsible for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This country died and nobody noticed. I wonder how similar the USA\u2019s death was to the Roman Empire\u2019s? Did Rome just one day cease to be relevant? Did the Roman emperor just one day realize he controlled nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the migrants, the divisiveness, and dysfunction, whatever rises to replace the USA will probably look a lot like the governments the migrants were trying to escape. It\u2019s not the migrants fault per se, they\u2019re coming here and bringing what they know and are familiar with. The fact that these migrants are from virtually every country on the planet means that all those voices will demand things be done \u201ctheir way\u201d and then it\u2019s just a matter of time before the country gets sliced and diced up so that it looks more like Europe or the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when I actually thought voting mattered. There was a time when I believed that my voice counted. I was stupid and terribly naive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do hope someone keeps a copy of The Constitution. I fear however that we\u2019ll have an orgy of book and document burning that would be the envy of the <strong>National Socialist German Workers\u2019 Party<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I think I\u2019ll remove myself from voter registration. At least until I move somewhere that my voice might have a chance of being heard, and my vote counted. Neither of those things will happen while I\u2019m in Kommifornia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about removing the other half from the voter roles. There\u2019s no conflict there, it should be done for the sake of clarity and also to make sure that some damn mail in ballot (Automatic in Kommifornia) doesn\u2019t end up being used in his name. What&#8217;s that old joke? Something about voting Democrat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/17\/im-very-conflicted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I\u2019m very conflicted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,17,11,104,14,7],"tags":[180,229,236,189,182,234],"class_list":["post-13037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-conservative","category-gop-dem","category-government","category-politics","category-why-california-sucks","tag-california","tag-conservative","tag-gop-dem","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-why-california-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}