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Grab some popcorn, folks. This is going to get good.
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Trump went to the border today to inspect the prototype fences for effectiveness and cost. The man will get us a secure border yet. And the fence won't be built for the typically outlandish government outlays of ridiculous money.
 
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[ Nothing surprises me with this shithole state any more ]

[h=1]California Appoints Illegal Alien to State Office[/h]
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by JOEL B. POLLAK15 Mar 201839,054
[h=2]California has its first illegal alien in state office, after Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) appointed Lizbeth Mateo to the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee.[/h]Mateo, an attorney, was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. illegally at the age of 14 with her parents, who are also illegal aliens, according to the Sacramento Bee.


Lizbeth Mateo, Esq.@LizbethMateo


In #lawschool I often wondered if I was fit to b in #lawjournal, #mootcourt bc not many ppl w/ my same background did. I always went for it bc even if I felt inadequate I thought I could add something of value. I hope to do the same w/ @StudentAidCommission. #undocumentedunafraid https://twitter.com/AraceliMartinez/status/974076293850447872 …
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Lizbeth Mateo, Esq.@LizbethMateo

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Thank you Sen. @kdeleon for appointing me to the CalSOAP Advisory Committee. I look forward to working w/ the rest of the committee & the Student Aid Commission in such important task - increase the accessibility of postsecondary education opportunities for low-income students.
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She complained that illegal aliens are not adequately represented in state government, and described her appointment as a step towards correcting that alleged injustice.
“While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,” Mateo said, as quoted by Fox News.
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De León, who is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), described Mateo as: “a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country,” according to Fox News.
Mateo, however, seems somewhat confused about which country she prefers.
In a Facebook post in 2016, apparently celebrating her graduation from Santa Clara University School of Law, Mateo declared, in Spanish: “[E]verything is dedicated to Oaxaca, Mexico!! to that land that I miss so much.”
Lizbeth Mateo (Facebook)
While she is the first illegal alien to hold a state office, she is not the first elevated to public office in California. In 2015, the city council of Huntington Park, California, appointed two illegal aliens to city commissions, sparking a public backlash.
De León and other state officials are stoking an ongoing confrontation with the federal government over federal immigration laws.
 
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[ These people are insane. And they are indoctrinating the youth of America. ]

[h=1]Calling America ‘Land of Opportunity’ Is a ‘Microaggression’ Says University of California[/h]
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[h=2]The University of California has published a list of unacceptable “microaggressions” on its official website, which includes offensive statements such as “America is the land of opportunity.”[/h]The Academic Affairs department of the University of California Santa Cruz provides the list of politically incorrect expressions and actions to students and faculty to equip them to recognize microaggressions and eliminate them.
Examples of allegedly “racist” microaggressions furnished by the university include statements such as: “When I look at you, I don’t see color,” “There is only one race, the human race,” and “America is a melting pot.”
It is also a microaggression to say that “the most qualified person should get the job” or to express doubts about the effectiveness of Affirmative Action programs, the website claims. Moreover, to say that “America is the land of opportunity” propagates the “myth of meritocracy,” as do statements such as “Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.”
The University of California offers a helpful definition of microaggressions to better educate the academic community in politically correct behavior.
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“Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership,” the website states.
“The first step in addressing microaggressions is to recognize when a microaggression has occurred and what message it may be sending,” the university declares, before proceeding to enumerate common offenses.
According to the Academic Affairs department, microaggressions vary with context and race, so saying something to a black or Asian person is different from saying it to a white person.
For example, it is perfectly acceptable to ask a Caucasian student “Why are you so quiet? We want to know what you think,” whereas to ask this same question of an Asian, Latino or Native American constitutes a microaggression, because it implies that they have not successfully assimilated to “the dominant culture.”
Similarly, asking a black person “Why do you have to be so loud/animated?” is strictly verboten, while asking a white person this question is completely fine.
Moreover, whites should never use the expression “You people” when speaking to blacks, whereas blacks may address whites in this way, the university suggests.
In the eyes of the university, microaggressions also extend to the area of sexual identity or orientation, and include limiting options on official forms to “Male or Female” when identifying one’s sex, or offering only two options for relationship status: married or single.
UC Santa Cruz has been a pioneer in the war against microaggressions and in 2016 hosted a forum titled “Microaggression in the Classroom.” The event was part of UCSC’s “Mentoring Program for Faculty,” sponsored by the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.


If you find the double standards and outright foolishness of academic political correctness off-putting, you are in good company.
In a brilliant article in Forbes during the 2016 presidential campaign, the celebrated British historian Paul Johnson called political correctness “one of the most dangerous intellectual afflictions ever to attack mankind.”
PC has “enormous appeal to the semieducated,” Johnson observed, and it “appeals to pseudo-intellectuals everywhere, since it evokes the strong streak of cowardice notable among those wielding academic authority nowadays.”
“Any empty-headed student with a powerful voice can claim someone (never specified) will be ‘hurt’ by a hitherto harmless term, object or activity and be reasonably assured that the dons and professors in charge will show a white feather and do as the student demands,” he said.
“Thus, there isn’t a university campus on either side of the Atlantic that’s not in danger of censorship,” he concluded.
 

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California Wants to Secede? Let's Help Them!


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California is a part of America. But it’s no longer American. It is a foreign state. It is a fugitive state. The U.S. Constitution and the rule of law no longer apply in California. Call it, “The People’s Socialist Republic of California.” It’s a state without a country. But it’s certainly no longer American in any way.

Liberals in California want to secede. They are trying to put it on the ballot. They call it “Calexit.” I say, “Glory Hallelujah." Let’s help make it happen. I propose 63 million Trump voters join the team. Let's work 24/7 to turn their dream into a reality!

Millions of illegal aliens live in California; drive in California with official state-issued drivers’ licenses; and of course, use those licenses to vote in California. Millions. That’s precisely how Hillary won California by over 4 million votes.

California supports illegal aliens over legal, law-abiding American citizens. They support illegals getting free college tuition, while children of native-born Americans pay full fare. They support illegals over police and ICE. Many liberals in California want to abolish ICE. They want no borders and no immigration law.

The Attorney General of California has warned any business owner who cooperates with ICE will face prosecution by the state of California. You heard correctly. California will put the business owner in prison, for cooperating with federal law, to protect the criminal breaking the law.

The Mayor of Oakland famously played Paul Revere to warn illegal felons “ICE is coming. ICE is coming.” The Feds report over 800 felons evaded arrest because of that stunt. How many legal, law-abiding, native-born Americans will be robbed, raped, or murdered in the coming weeks because of that act of sedition?

A California judge just sided with the ACLU and barred LA County from enforcing gang restrictions that dramatically lowered crime. California has once again sided with hoodlums and gang-bangers over the law-abiding taxpayers.

In Oakland, a coffee shop prohibits employees from serving police, in order to create a “safe space” for their customers. Californians hate and distrust police more than illegal felons and thugs who speak no English and wear gang tattoos. Really.

All of this is sheer madness. But California has taken it to a whole new level.

Just this week the California Senate appointed the first-ever illegal alien to an official statewide post. Lizbeth Mateo, a 33-year old illegal alien-turned-attorney, will serve on the official state committee that doles out money to illegals attending college. In California, illegals now decide how taxpayer money is spent.

President Trump loves to brand (see "Crooked Hillary"). Let’s brand California. It’s not a “Sanctuary State.” It’s a “Fugitive State.” It’s a place that chooses to let felons and fugitives run free. It’s a place where the rights of criminals are far more important than protecting legal, law-abiding American citizens who pay taxes. We are the second class citizens in California.

Here’s the way to fix the problem. Liberal Californians want to secede. I'm joining the movement. How about you?

Conservatives should beg California to secede. We should make it easy for them. We should help pay for it. Pass the hat. Every conservative should chip in $20. I’ll throw $1000 to get the ball rolling.

Just think of elections. Without California, Trump and all future Republican presidential candidates would win, without breaking a sweat.

Without California, we’d easily win the popular vote. And we'd win the electoral vote by a landslide.

Next think of Congress. California has 53 House seats. Democrats lead 39-14, for a net gain of 25 seats. Send California packing and the GOP gains a 25 House seat lead. We would dominate the House for decades to come.

And of course, the GOP would gain an automatic two seats in the Senate through the subtraction of California. As it stands now, those two U.S. Senate seats are deep blue Democrat forever. But if California secedes a 51-49 GOP lead instantly moves to 51-47.

If 63 million Trump voters just gave an average of $20 each to the "Calexit movement" that’s over $1.2 billion dollars. That’s enough money to help California secede, with enough left over as a down payment on building a wall…
with California.

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Wayne Root?

Whoda thunk it twenty years ago?

Start the damned fund. If you are serious about publicising it I'll contribute.

Fk California. The sanity of conservatism could get the rest of this country on the road to health.
 
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[ Fucking liberal maggots ]

[h=1]Tammy Bruce: California's latest contradictions -- Welcoming criminals but warning about 'dangerous' coffee[/h]
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By Tammy Bruce | The Washington Times







[h=4]Five illegal immigrants pardoned by California governor[/h]Illegal immigrant felons facing deportation pardoned by Governor Jerry Brown.




Imagine a state that passes a law welcoming, embracing and protecting criminals, directly endangering citizens. Then imagine that same state passing laws, and judges issuing orders that make no sense except to micromanage people’s lives in the name of keeping them safe.
A contradiction indeed, and especially ripe in California.

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The same week that a number of cities and counties in California sued their own state over the dangerous law making the state a “sanctuary” for illegal alien criminals, a judge issued a ruling to save Californians from themselves and their coffee-drinking habit.


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[h=4]More California cities vote to fight state's sanctuary laws[/h]

“The suit was brought against Starbucks and 90 companies under a controversial law passed by California voters in 1986 that has been credited with culling cancer-causing chemicals from myriad products and also criticized for leading to quick settlement shakedowns,” CNBC reported. The judge ruled in the plaintiff’s favor and ordered coffee shops, including Starbucks and 7-Eleven shops, to make sure you get a cancer warning along with your java.
While there is no scientific consensus on the health benefits (or dangers) of coffee, the CNBC report reminded readers that the World Health Organization removed coffee from its “possible carcinogen” list in 2016, citing studies that “indicate coffee is unlikely to cause breast, prostate or pancreatic cancer, and it seems to lower the risks for liver and uterine cancers, the agency said …”
If you want to understand what the left is up to, you just need to look at the direction and policies of Los Angeles and London. Like the eight years of the Obama administration, both cities provide excellent examples of the damage liberalism inflicts when unrestrained.
As the judge was working diligently to protect coffee drinkers from … coffee that may actually protect you from certain cancers, California Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned five ex-convict illegal aliens facing deportation.
The Washington Times provided the details on the men below who had their records wiped clean by a governor who seems to like making political points against President Trump at the expense of the safety and well-being of the people of California.
• Sokha Chhan, who is in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending deportation to Cambodia. He was convicted of inflicting corporal injury with the intent to terrorize his spouse.
• Daniel Maher, a native of Macau who was sentenced in 1995 for kidnapping, robbery and using a firearm. He was detained by ICE in 2015.
• Phann Pheach, a native of Thailand convicted in 2005 for possession of a controlled substance for sale and obstructing a police officer. He has been detained by ICE and is facing possible deportation to Cambodia.
• Francisco Acevedo Alaniz, convicted of vehicle theft.
• Sergio Mena, sentenced in 2003 for possession of a controlled substance for sale.
The action outraged Mr. Trump who tweeted, “Governor Jerry ‘Moonbeam’ Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want? @FoxNews.”
No matter your party, political beliefs or passions, no one wants the criminal, craven and violent to be embraced and protected. That’s an idea for a horror novel, not a serious policy for the people of any state of this union.
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[h=4]California judge says coffee must come with cancer warning[/h]

The problem with liberal policy is its focus on controlling people instead of setting them free. The liberal belief is that big government is necessary because people can’t be trusted to run their own lives properly. Ergo, policy is developed to “take care of” the inept citizen, and legislation follows that reinforces the fraud that we need Big Government to run our lives.
Case in point, California is considering a new law to ban removable plastic bottle caps and to restrict plastic straws. All in the name of saving the ocean, which is an important and good cause, but we want serious policy that actually addresses the issues.
In 2015, the journal Science found “[m]illions of tons of plastic trash flow into the world’s oceans each year, and a new study finds that most of it comes from China and developing economies in Asia. The study … estimates that China’s heavily coastal population contributes 1.3 million to 3.5 million metric tons of plastic to the world’s oceans each year, largely due to mismanaged waste,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
California redesigning bottle caps and taking away your straws will not solve that problem, but it’s a policy meant to trick you into thinking politicians care, while suggesting that you and your lifestyle are the problem. Just like a judge issuing an order that your coffee could give you cancer, while the state government itself is embracing and protecting criminal illegal aliens who actually have ruined lives.
If you want to understand what the left is up to, you just need to look at the direction and policies of Los Angeles and London. Like the eight years of the Obama administration, both cities provide excellent examples of the damage liberalism inflicts when unrestrained. It also reminds us how liberals rely on victimhood and have no problem using policy to throw us all into their volcano.
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WE IN CALIFORNIA ARE FIGHTING GOV. JERRY BROWNS INSANE PROP 54', DOING WHAT IS NEEDED TO END THIS "ILLEGAL SANCTUARY STATE," WAR ON THE UNITED STATES. ONE CITY, ONE COUNTY AT A TIME, WE ARE STANDING UP WITH SUPPORT FROM LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. PLEASE SUPPORT AND PRAY FOR US.






 

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