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Aaron Cameron's avatar

Respectfully disagree/nitpick some of your points on the recall effort here in my home state, Craig. I moved to San Diego in 1995 for college. The RNC was held here in 1996. Since then, San Diego County has steadily turned more blue. There are, of course, always the north coastal affluent enclaves of Encinitas, Leucadia, Carlsbad, etc. AND, we’re certainly not, say, San Francisco, but, I believe SDC has been comfortably blue in the last handful of presidential elections.

Also, during the early returns (with the caveat that things could have changed 24 hours later and beyond) most of the counties reporting were in line - eerily so - with the percentages that voted for Biden and that orange shitbag supremacist. At last check, Newsom was expected to “win” by about 3-4 more percentage points than what he won with three years ago. I’m no Nate Silver (heh) but, when you factor in the inherently lower turnout for these special dealies…*shrug emoji*

In summary: if a judge hadn’t granted recall advocates an additional four months to procure signatures AND if our recall process wasn’t so goddam borked AND if aggrieved white folk in this state weren’t so fucking dumb about equating vaccine mandates with “segregation” and “masks” with “MAH FREEDOMS”, California could have avoided wasting $200-$300M on this whole abject fucking farce.

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Benjamin, J's avatar

Typically I think liberally about personal freedoms but let’s be clear here: there are vaccine mandated in numerous other contexts. I needed to get vaccinated to go to high school and college. I needed to get vaccinated to travel abroad to certain countries. Vaccine ‘mandates’ are a common and socially accepted part of life for pretty much every disease with a vaccine…besides Covid. The idea that this is about personal freedoms is absurd. I don’t see Republicans demanding schools stop requiring other basic vaccine requirements, which means this is entirely about making Biden look bad. It’s ridiculous.

Whine about getting the jab all you want. Just like the rest of us grumble when we have to go through an annoying process which inconveniences us briefly in our generally pleasant lives. Just whine after you get the damn vaccine.

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