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2023-05-10 -Great Cultural Revolution
Reparations: Why Stop With Black People in California?
[Red State] California is a step closer to paying reparations to black residents. The state’s reparations task force approved a raft of recommendations for putting a dollar amount on just how sorry California is for what NBC called "generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies."

(Spoiler alert: the state is really, really sorry.)

This is terrific news for several important reasons. For one thing, "recommendations on the table ranged from the creation of a new agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people to calculations on what the state owes them in compensation."
A new Federal agency? How innovative!
You need infrastructure to shove that cash around, and qualified professionals to run it. (Cal State should offer a BS in Reparations Accounting.) How often do you get to be there at the birth of an industry?

Of course, the task force itself has been around for a couple of years, and so have, er, imaginative California reparations schemes. And there are nay-sayers, of course. Prof. Roy L. Brooks, a reparations scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law said "There’s no way in the world that many of these recommendations are going to get through because of the inflationary impact."

What inflationary impact?
Once the first check is issued it will never end.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-10 01:32|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 I'll take LGTBQIA2S+ for $600. Alex.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-10 01:37||   2023-05-10 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I'm pretty sure that the nice folks in charge of this disaster are working on a way to foist it off on the federal government. And once the precedent is there...

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-05-10 06:50||   2023-05-10 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Yep, the ultimate 'Obama Care.' California is simply the Federal Gov't proof of concept. Updated Social Security Cards will reflect your level of eligibility. Offices opening soon near you. Case workers needed. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-10 06:53||   2023-05-10 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-10 07:21||   2023-05-10 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Let the CAL. Taxpayers decide.....
VOTE ON IT
Posted by NN2N1 2023-05-10 08:25||   2023-05-10 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 VOTE ON IT

Really? That'll end so well...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-10 08:30||   2023-05-10 08:30|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 I believe this is why Grewsom is doing what he's doing. He's borrowing from the GOPe Kabuki Playbook. He'll act tough, but cave to a barely acceptable proposal and tell the volkes: "he had no choice", which is in some part very true. In the meantime, we've just instituted our Hate Snitch Hotline. Watch what you say folks, the neighbors are listening - and your tv...phone...
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-05-10 10:25||   2023-05-10 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 The Irish should be next. Did I tell you I'm half Irish?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-05-10 11:05||   2023-05-10 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Irish here as well. My discounted non-taxable reparations fee is a one-time $500,000. payment. Make check payable to myself and the wife.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-10 11:15||   2023-05-10 11:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Ref #7 above
Look for the Snitch Hotline to be touted as merely a "non-criminal" intervention by social workers, to make the reporting seem harmless and supportive. Then comes the accumulation of Stasi-levels of information as a tool to report "wrong-think" by conservatives and traditional Americans. And,.... wait for it, those files become the basis for Red Flag laws to suspend firearms ownership and even travel restrictions. Creeping Marxism comes to Interior California where the remaining Americans still live.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-10 11:30||   2023-05-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Sort of like the voice-mail number in 12 Monkeys.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-10 11:40||   2023-05-10 11:40|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't think you can call them monkeys.

California Gov. Newsom declines to back reparations checks, says slavery's legacy is 'more than cash payments'
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-10 12:20||   2023-05-10 12:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Sleeper, classic movie, 12 Monkeys.

Time travel movie (hate those, don't get me started on multi-verse). Bruce Willis goes back in time to find a group calling itself Army of the 12 Monkeys, Environmentalists suspected of releasing a virus killing damn near all humans.

The plot point mentioned is a phone number to voice machine he is supposed to call and state evidence of his investigation. A voice machine which survives the apocalypse so 'in the future' the evidence can be examined and acted upon.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-10 12:37||   2023-05-10 12:37|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Say what you will about time travel movies, but see Millennium.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-10 12:43||   2023-05-10 12:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Exemptions allowed for movies up to and including The One.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-10 13:17||   2023-05-10 13:17|| Front Page Top

#16 "Vote on it"

Like 2020? I dont think voting means what it used to mean.

Time Travel - I have a history mystery for you guys and gals.

Zanetti's Free Train Ride and Disappearance
Posted by mossomo 2023-05-10 13:23||   2023-05-10 13:23|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm 85% Irish, when do I get my check?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-05-10 14:04||   2023-05-10 14:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Do you get double of yer black irish?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-05-10 16:20||   2023-05-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Do you get double of yer black irish?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-05-10 16:20||   2023-05-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ heh heh, hangin' curve ball for 2 bases!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-05-10 17:48||   2023-05-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#21 My family has always claimed we are black irish.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-05-10 19:52||   2023-05-10 19:52|| Front Page Top

#22 So, is this where I talk about ordering a Black & Tan? No, I better not. I'll go with ½ & ½.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-10 19:58||   2023-05-10 19:58|| Front Page Top

#23 Bejayzus, it's Archbishop Hannan,
Orleanian Friday and Gannon,
A pimp and a whore
And a deb and her beau,
All enjoyin' me collard colcannon.
Posted by Bob Smith6683 2023-05-10 20:23||   2023-05-10 20:23|| Front Page Top

#24 When this thing finally tanks, many downtown gentrification issues will be quickly "unissued."

Right now, there are Dems meeting over how to blame the lack of boodle upon the "Pubs.

And the 'Pubs, hopefully, are allowing Gov. Newsom and the Dems to twist themselves into strangulation.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-05-10 22:48||   2023-05-10 22:48|| Front Page Top

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