1,800 Companies Left California In a Year - With Most Bound for Texas

 

 SouthStar Communities   "A record number of companies are leaving California for states with a better business climate, and a new report shows that Texas remains their No. 1 destination.

"The study estimates that 1,800 relocation or "disinvestment events" occurred in 2016, the most recent year available, setting a record yearly high going back to 2008. About 13,000 companies left the state during that nine-year period.

"Of the 1,800 events, 299 of those departures landed in Texas. …

"In the past three years, California companies - like Toyota Motor North America (NYSE: TM), Kubota Tractor Corporation, Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW) and Jamba Juice, among others - have announced corporate moves or regional hub launches in North Texas. …

" 'Departures are understandable when year after year CEOs nationwide surveyed by Chief Executive Magazine have declared California the worst state in which to do business," said Vranich, a corporate relocation expert who jokes that he loves California's weather, but not its business climate. Until recently, Spectrum and Vranich were based in Irvine, Calif. …

"Hostility toward businesses, high utility and labor costs, punitive regulations and worrisome housing affordability for employees are among California's other negatives, Vranich said. …

" 'Signs are that California politicians' contempt for business will persist," he said." . . .  More here

The pro-Biden/ Harris press looks as corrupt as ever

 NBC’s Kasie Hunt Claims Joe Biden Doesn’t Lie, Even When He Blows Her Off

Kasie Hunt

@kasie

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Dec 4

Joe Biden wouldn’t say if he’s talked to Mitch McConnell I’m just struck by the reality that we’ll now have a president who, as a rule, doesn’t lie, even when it might be easier

"Translation: he blew her off and avoided a question, but she’s still praising him and acting like state T.V."

"I mean.... https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2020/10/24/to-help-the-factcheckers-here-is-a-list-of-lies-from-joe-bidens-debate-performance-n2578684… Come on. Just try to be a little more discreet about your bias."

To Help the Fact-checkers, Here Is a List of Lies from Joe Biden’s Debate Performance

"It is not breaking news to state the media has clearly taken sides in this election, but it really devolves into the realm of comedy to see the way they perform following a debate. Following the first debate CNN brought on their in-house fact-sleuth Daniel Dale to give his grades of the two performances, and while he expectantly declared Trump delivered an ‘’avalanche of lies’’ he declared that Joe Biden had been ‘’mostly truthful’’ in the debate. You had to know just how wrong this assessment proved to be, from the network that routinely declares riots and arson scenes to be “mostly peaceful'.” . . 

Making America abnormal

Don Surber

"Graphic via Glenn Reynolds. Insanity via the Democrat Party.

"Ellen Page, an actress with girl-next-door looks, has decided she's a boy next door named Elliot. She is no more a male than the public health director of Pennsylvania is a woman. They suffer a mental disorder which in 21st century America makes you a hero. 

"Not too long ago Bruce Jenner abandoned his wife and two daughters and won all kind of praise and even an Espy award from ESPN because he claimed he switched sexes. You can't. You can get surgery and take pills, but the DNA never changes.

"I don't wish Jenner, Page, or any of the others ill. 

"I simply refuse to go along with the charade. The emperor wears no clothes, Ellen Page is a woman, and Bruce Jenner is a man.

"Democrats have spent most of my lifetime defining deviancy down. Society is worse for it. 60 years ago, the law banned distributing pornography through the mail. Now, any child can click on sex shows on the Internet that would give Caligula pause.

"The destruction of America is at an ever-increasing pace as Democrats make a functioning society dysfunctional. If the Supreme Court does not reverse the farcical presidential election, Xiden (as a reader calls him) will become the Pervert-in-Chief. The hair-sniffing and fondling of little girls in public make me cringe because we all know he is far worse in private.

"Perhaps he is the fitting figurehead of a nation in decline.

"How weird are we now?

"In 1998, all of Hollywood exalted Ellen DeGeneres as a heroine worthy of Mount Olympus because she came out as a lesbian. But two decades later, she wasn't quite quick enough on the uptake on the transgendering fad. That got her in dutch with the PC police.

"She has embraced Ellen-Elliot Page like a life preserver.

"JK Rowling and John Cleese also have run afoul of the tranny crowd. To their horror, they have discovered that the T in LGBQT is just as petty, mean, and insufferable as they are.

"Oh, I get that the 1950s were not perfect. No age is. But is replacing the KKK with the BLM really necessary? What good purpose does racism against white people serve? Bull Connor died 47 years ago. No one under 100 was in charge in the 1960s. Move on, as they say." . . . .

More here...

President of Soros’ Open Society Foundations resigns, clearing way for potential Biden Cabinet position

Fox News  "The president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Patrick Gaspard, will resign, opening the way for him to take a possible position in the Biden administration.

"Gaspard, who has served on the Hungarian-born billionaire’s foundation for three years, announced Friday that he will step down at the end of the year, Open Society said.

TUCKER CARLSON: MEET PATRICK GASPARD, GEORGE SOROS' MAN IN BIDEN'S WOULD-BE CABINET 

"Gaspard previously served as U.S. ambassador to South Africa between 2013 and 2016 in the Obama administration. Before that, he served as director of the White House Office of Political Affairs.

"Axios reported that there is speculation he could join the Biden administration, possibly as Labor secretary. He has previous experience with labor unions -- having worked for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU.)

"In a statement, Gaspard said he wishes to re-enter politics to continue “the struggle against oppression everywhere.”

DEN, HARRIS DOUBLE DOWN ON CONTROVERSIAL CABINET PICK NEERA TANDEN   "Soros, a left-wing megadonor, praised Gaspard as a “champion of all rights: whether for workers, for women, or for underserved groups.”

“ 'His dedication to those challenging power is precisely why I invited Patrick to join Open Society,” he said. “I have great admiration for the way he led the Foundations in a world beset by illiberalism, and I applaud him.”

"Biden, along with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have doubled down on their support for controversial director of the Office of Management and Budget nominee, Neera Tanden." . . .

‘You spoiled rotten BRAT’: Candace Owens knocks AOC OUT with some brutal truth about what it REALLY means to ‘work hard’

 Twitchy  "As Twitchy readers know, AOC has spent the last several days whining because people made fun of her for selling REALLY pricey merchandise hating on the rich, and then doubling and tripling down about how hard she worked as a bartender, even claiming

"Republicans only know how to sit around on leather seats.

"Reading that you’d think we’re making this up to roast her but nope, she’s been good enough to roast herself.

"Candace Owens finally had enough of the ‘I work and I slave, and what thanks do I get’ routine from Sandy, and dropped her: .  . . .". .

Keeps going and going: AOC’s continued whining about Repubs not knowing HOW HARD she’s worked just a hot mess of HILARITY

I fear for a nation that chooses such silly leadership. A country gets the leaders it deserves. TD

Age-shaming AOC mocks folks who ‘remember when Hershey bars were 5¢ at the general store’  . . . "Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a combat veteran and retired U.S. Army officer, was among the first to respond.

" 'Between working my family’s hog farm, construction jobs with my dad, and the biscuit line at Hardee’s — not to mention running convoys in a combat zone — I can promise you this conservative Senator knows exactly what it’s like to work a physically demanding job,” she wrote."

. . . "Several other users responded to Ocasio-Cortez as well, including Chris Loesch, husband to conservative author and “The First” host Dana Loesch. . . .

“‘Physically difficult’ … The actual physical laborers you want to have pay for everyone else’s college tuition would like to introduce you to physically difficult jobs. You have no idea what those words mean till you have done hot tar roofing. BTW, why didn’t you buy Obamacare?” he wrote." . .

Nancy Pelosi Babbles Incoherently After Admitting Holding Up the Virus Relief Until She Thought Biden Won

RedState

"Maybe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) will never be voted out, given her district is San Francisco.

"But what she just admitted to is so vile that she certainly deserves to be tossed out on her ear.

"She had claimed for months that she was unwilling to accept a smaller COVID virus relief package. Republicans alleged she was holding off on relief so Americans would suffer more and blame President Donald Trump in the election, despite the fact that it was Nancy Pelosi who was holding it up.

"Now, after the election is over, as my colleague Sister Toldjah reported, Pelosi’s finally willing to sign onto a smaller deal, now that she thinks Joe Biden has won. “It’s ok now,” she said. “Because now we have a new president.”. . . 

. . . "Trump offered stand alone bills. She still refused. So it was clearly all about helping get Joe Biden in. She was willing to hurt millions of Americans if it helped her hold onto political power. It was President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed that’s gotten us three vaccines with over 94% effective, not Joe Biden. Notice how she doesn’t say that, already trying to swipe that credit from Trump. But I wanted to point out that in addition to her statement being vile and revealing her craven desire for power, it sounds like she’s had a little bit too much liquid at lunch. It’s barely coherent, like Biden. She tries to say “build back better,” Biden’s slogan, but she trips all over her tongue. But it’s a slogan that he apparently lifted from folks who have pushed the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset.' ”

The Trump vaccine becomes ready during this next term, presumably Democrat's.  Watch them claim credit, even to the extent of using the term, "Biden vaccine", depending completely on the mal-information of Democrat voters coming from MSNBC-like sources and campus propagandists. TD

Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked

Liberal politicians and media figures constantly rail against threats to “our democracy,” but there is no greater threat to democracy than a corrupt news media, because it emasculates free speech, which is the single greatest constitutional safeguard for the integrity of our representative republic.

David Limbaugh  

"Project Veritas’ expose of CNN’s behind-the-scenes conference calls shows that the network’s slogan should be “We won’t fully report so you can’t knowledgeably decide.”

"James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, in the ultimate trolling coup of the year, monitored and recorded CNN’s morning conference call with CNN President Jeff Zucker and other company executives and reporters for some two months. O’Keefe has released the first batch of audiotapes from those calls, which confirm the network’s anti-Donald Trump, pro-Joe Biden bias.

"Exposing CNN’s liberal bias is no bombshell, as it is self-evident to any objective viewer, but it is deliciously affirming to hear these legacy media frauds betray their corruption in their own words. There’s no explaining away their admissions of news doctoring in these tapes.

"The recordings prove that the executives not only dictate the network’s editorial slant but also manipulate its news side in deciding what stories will be reported and how they will be presented — to ensure that Trump is portrayed in a negative light and Biden is protected at all costs."

"It would be less objectionable if the network would admit that it has a liberal bias, but it does the opposite: The anchors and reporters hold themselves out as consummate journalists, exemplary professionals committed to giving their viewers information without a partisan filter. Through these tapes, they’ve vindicated our long-standing charge that their mission is to tailor the news to fit their liberal narrative, rather than to fairly report it. These are the same people who sermonize on air and on Twitter daily about the importance of honest journalism and political integrity, and who denigrate so-called conservative networks as hopelessly biased.

. . . 

Records Show Maxine Waters' Campaign Paid Her Daughter Roughly $240,000 During 2020 Race

The Federalist Papers  "Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California funneled about $240,000 to her daughter during the 2020 campaign, according to federal documents.

"Federal Election Commission filings show that during the 2019-2020 campaign cycle, Karen Waters received about $213,000 as of the start of the last reporting period.

"The latest report for the final quarter of the campaign season shows $28,150 paid to Karen Waters. There is a $1,000 payment for “Walker payments”; payments of $900 and $5,000 for “GOTV”; and payments of $8,750 and $12,500,” marked “Slate Mailer Management Fee.”

"The “slate mailer” fees come through money that Waters charges fellow Democrats for them to be endorsed by Waters in mailings sent out to those candidates’ constituents, according to Fox News.

"Prior to the 2019-2020 election cycle, her campaign reportedly paid $750,000 to Karen Waters or her PR firm, Progressive Connections, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

"The report of how Waters spent her campaign cash raised hackles on Twitter." . . .

Trump Continues To Deliver On Promises Made, Orders Withdrawal Of Troops From Somalia

Perhaps we can make a trade with Somalia...

The Federalist Papers  "In his 2016 run for the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to always look out for our troops and if at all possible, avoid needless, costly wars that only serve to put our young men and women in harm’s way for no good reason.

"He also pledged to bring our troops home as quickly and as safely as possible.

"Luckily for the troops and for their friends, families and loved ones back home, Trump held true to that promise during his entire stay in the White House and came through once again with a huge announcement about the status of U.S. troops currently serving in the third-world country of Somalia.

"According to Newsmax, on Friday Trump announced that he is removing a vast majority of U.S. military forces from Somalia. Troops stationed in the area have conducted operations against the Al-Shabaab militant group and have taken part in training Somalian forces.

"The Pentagon report stated that the president “has ordered the Department of Defense and the United States Africa Command to reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 2021.' ” 

. . "While some* have criticized the withdrawal of troops from terrorist hotbeds like Somalia and Afghanistan, it’s probably safe to say that Trump’s expert military advisers, including America’s military generals, have thought of these scenarios and wouldn’t put troops or Americans in harm’s way unless they had a solid plan.."    *CNN-ish types?

The State Bar of California wants to know if I am a two spirit, cisgender pansexual

 Allan J. Favish  "A current voluntary census of California attorneys, by the State Bar of California, the state's licensing, regulation, and disciplinary agency for lawyers, raises the issue of whether the information obtained will be used to grant preferential treatment to people who identify themselves as something other than their biological sex, and whether people who continue to treat such people according to their biological sex will be punished for doing so." . .

. . . "Near the end of the Attorney Census, after asking for the racial and ethnic group(s) with which I identify, I am asked:

Which of the following best fits with the gender you identify as?

Select all that apply

Female

Male

Gender Variant/Non-conforming/Non-binary

Two Spirit

Not listed (please specify): ___________

The next question asks:

Which of the following best applies to you?

Select all that apply

Cisgender

Transgender

Intersex

Not listed (please specify): ____________

"Here are some screen shots from the state website that's available for viewing only by lawyers, so you can see for yourself:"

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Buried lede: WaPo reports Mexican officials terrified of Biden's open-borders-and-amnesty dinner triangle

https://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2020/11/24/178473

Monica Showalter   "How's this for a buried lede? This ran in the ninth paragraph of a Washington Post story about presumed president-elect Joe Biden and his coming relations with Mexico:

... Mexican officials have private concerns that any moves to revoke Trump's enforcement mechanisms too quickly could have a dam-bursting effect at their southern border, unleashing pent-up demand from desperate Central Americans.

"Our southern border was a mess, and it's under control now," said a senior Mexican official who spoke on the condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to discuss potential relations with the United States under the Biden administration[.]

"So much for this new era of "restored" comity and normalcy in foreign relations, as Biden, his team, and their press lackeys have promoted.  Already we've seen the fear and pre-emptive triage actions in the Middle East based on fears of a return to the Obama lead-from-behind policy of weakness.  We've also see the fear in East Asia as small Pacific Rim nations and democracy campaigners in places like Hong Kong worry about a rampant China and a naive and ineffectual Jimmy Carter-style Biden administration.

"Now we've got a full blown concern from Mexico that with Biden ringing the dinner trial of amnesty, migrant surges will trash Mexico, as if that country didn't have enough problems as it is.  If you want to start a migrant surge, there probably isn't a better way to do it than to advertise free amnesty at the destination, as Mickey Kaus noted in one of his tweets.

"As for Mexico, too bad.  Biden cares so little about the U.S. that he's happy to trigger a migrant surge in a bid to please far-left activists who hate America anyway.  He doesn't care about how migrant surges drive down U.S. wages, raise U.S. health and education costs, and set Central American nations up for failure as remittance states, something that the World Bank has noted will underdevelop a country." . . . . .  .

LA Boutique Owner Skewers California Progressive Hypocrites with Savage Window Display

Diogenes' Middle Finger

"RS -Fraser Ross, owner of trendy Los Angeles boutique Kitson L.A., had at least $400,000 in damages to his stores during the weeks of rioting and looting loosely disguised as Black Lives Matter protests back in May and June, and he, like countless other retailers in California, has been severely affected by the state’s strict coronavirus lockdowns. Using the platform he has – huge shop windows on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles, and social media – he’s calling out the Hypocrites of 2020 and ironically naming people like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Hunter Biden the “People of the Year.”

One sample here:

"What would a list of Hypocrites of 2020 be without Alyssa Milano: Milano’s window highlighted her hypocrisy in calling 911 to report a “man with a gun” in her backyard, who turned out to be a neighbor shooting squirrels with a BB gun, while at the same time advocating to #DefundThe Police.

"Milano’s window also featured a stuffed squirrel."

DEFUND THE POLICE...tomorrow!