dougfir
20 min into the latest chapo and two great mispronunciations from felix: "finnit" for finite and "lat-ent" like latin for latent
yeah, this is kind of my thought. this is a group that has probably in the ballpark of 200 active members spread across the whole state. the people in it are at the very least friendly to the idea of socialism - they apparently have some overlap with the PSL or Peace and Freedom Party already, and those people are starting a group in their org that is based on CA independence. From what I heard from party leadership, they are basically berniecrats or to his left who feel deeply upset about how the national dems are handling trump and are aware of the fact that decades of dem rule at the state level hasn't really gotten us any of their goals (universal healthcare, etc) and hasn't protected us from trump.
but yeah they do seem undereducated, for example their manifesto/party charter repeatedly calls california a "nation state" which is an understandable mistake given how those words are used in the US and that even gavin has used such terms to refer to CA but it does show that they haven't really read much political theory at all, much less leftist theory.
they are focusing on organizing at the local level now and i would bet that even a half dozen or fewer comrades could make a local chapter, even for one of CA's big cities, much redder and more politically aware than the statewide org.
i guess the main holdup that i have with it is that i think independence should be for the whole west or west coast and we shouldn't focus just on california. i'd bet that there are a lot of comrades in the PNW that would be receptive to a left-wing independence movement but for obvious reasons someone in seattle or portland might not want to join an org that is just centered on CA.
that covered the car/boat/jetski dealership part of his base and this is for the MLM part of his base
two firefighters killed and a third seriously wounded yesterday after a "lone gunman" in Idaho started a fire then shot at the firefighters. Northern Idaho has been crawling with neonazis for decades now and i can almost guarantee this guy was affiliated with a nazi org
jesus christ, i was not expecting family annihilation when you said that he killed himself
hey don't count out the republicans yet! they haven't chosen who their disgraced corrupt sex pest will be yet. are there term limits to NYC mayor? could rudy come back? (edit: rudy is indeed term limited, what a shame) (edit 2: apparently rudy giuliani was given a knighthood by the queen after 9/11? i didn't even know non-brits could be knighted)
that might have been beyond nixon's capabilities but i think i know who could be up to the task if you said his pecker wasn't based or whatever 
nixon seems like the last president we've had who had the right mix of resentment and insecurity to be willing to do this and it's a shame no one ever tried to get him to show whoever the quaker pope is his cock, i am choosing to blame the american love of circumcision for this
some bizarre news:
Armenian PM Pashinyan offers to show his penis to head of Church
a priest accused Pashinyan of being circumcised and so this was Pashinyan's response.
the article also talks about some interesting tensions between Church and State in Armenia recently, with the PM accusing priests (including the head of the church) of breaking their vows of celibacy, and a ruling-party aligned paper published a document about coup plans from the opposition with the support of the church, some business tycoons, and Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.
however Trump has rescinded the Roadless Rule, which prevented logging, mining, and roadbuilding on 59 million acres of Forest Service land, so that FS land is still getting fucked even if it isn't getting sold (yet)