"It’s time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let’s turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them....
"But it’s no longer peacetime in Los Angeles.
This event is now too dangerous for California. Hosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as it openly wages war against our city and state."
A lawless government? Like one that actively blocks enforcement of federal immigration law? Count on a progressive to confuse waging war with enforcing laws that they could have revised on multiple occasions when they controlled Congress and the White House.. but never found important enough to bother.
It is important to remember which progressive oxen are being gored: cheap nannies, gardeners, restaurant workers. Oh yes if you are a governor, help that dares not say NO when he comes tomcatting at your door.
Agreed. Consider the cleanup that LA underwent in 1984 to prepare for the Olympics (which was AWESOME!). That would be orders of magnitude less difficult than what is needed now.
ReplyDeleteAnd as soon as the authorities start pushing the homeless out of the underpasses and start collecting the garbage, the leftist loons will be in court stopping the efforts. The city will double-down, fighting the efforts in court, and then tripling the cost of cleanup by working overtime. And the result? Likely won't be 1984, at least not in a good way.
I left Los Angeles in 2003 and have been back a few times for family and business. I kept my house in the San Fernando Valley as rental property, planning on renting it as a timeshare for the Olympics. After my last visit two years ago (for a funeral), I sold the property. Los Angeles, where I was born, mostly g grew up and was educated (UCLA, Caltech graduate school, UCLA medical school) is not what it used to be and likely will not be again.
Not just cheap nannies, gardeners, restaurant workers, but also construction workers; painters, plasterers, carpenters, plumbers.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1980's the stucco workers were middle-aged black men. in 2010, I suspect that I had hired a man who hired a group of illegals, or at least monolingual workers who were "Just Off the Boat". Capable but undocumented. When our house was built in the late 1950's, the various subcontractors were World War 2 vets and migrants from Oklahoma and the surrounding states.
There was a movie from 1976 "Car Wash" and another from 2001, "The Wash" that cast black actors as car wash workers. In real life, those workers are now all Hispanic.
Heh. When I was in high school, among the several cliques there were the constructors - the guys who drove mostly mini pickups (Datsuns and Toyotas, or old American trucks - and the few wealthy had the brand new Ford Rangers), and were planning on getting into the trades. They mostly retired owning trade businesses.
DeleteThat was before the day laborers all became hispanic - mostly they were blacks and to hire some we drove down around Venice and La Brea to find them on the corners. And this was at the end of the Japanese gardeners, which was an interesting history itself:
Prior to WWII, Japanese americans owned many of the nurseries in town. These were all confiscated or stolen when the Japanese-Americans were interned. After the war a few were able to recover and a few nurseries were again Japanese, the rest became gardeners, driving about tending to lawns and flowerbeds.
Their children almost universally became professionals, attending high school and university with me. The role of gardening was taken over by blacks (for a brief period) then they were essentially pushed out of the role by hispanics.
Orange man so bad, let's Let’s turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them....
ReplyDeleteSochi. They have more than enough time to get ready and provide a world-class Olympic Spectator Experience for the millions of tourists expected to travel to view the games. Certainly Bernie Sanders, (C), Vermont Senator would agree. If not Sochi, then Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un is interested in showing he can sponsor an event like the Olympics.
How about Beijing?
DeleteOr Caracas!