In California, THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO is the SPRINGBOARD for STATEWIDE and NATIONAL POLITICS.
NANCY PELOSI, DIANE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, BARBARA BOXER, GAVIN NEWSOM, WILLIE BROWN -- all gained NATIONAL POLITICAL STATURE from their SAN FRANCISCO BASE.
A few days ago, the new MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO (LONDON BREED) made a calculated political move and "shut down the city" -- that made NATIONAL NEWS and put her in the NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT in a JIFFY ... as my mother used to like to say. Two days later she was on CNN. I call that TRUE TO FORM POLITICS.
Well, you all may not know this -- but GAVIN NEWSOM (The Governor of California -- former MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO) will run for PRESIDENT one day. He is just biding his time.
So he sat there and watched MAYOR LONDON BREED make her NATIONAL PLAY -- and one has to look closely at how MAYOR PETE changed the PRESIDENTIAL RUN GAME to fully appreciate this -- and he decided IMMEDIATELY that he had to ONE-UP the MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO. So he called for a STATE WIDE "shut down" and immediately added some BIGGER BULLETS to his POLITICAL RESUME than LONDON BREED.
Now if you happen to be thinking that these two political moves have anything to with THE HEALTH and WELFARE of the CITIZENS of CALIFORNIA -- then you have to UPGRADE your POLITICAL FILES. This is nothing but POLITICAL AMBITION.
(However, the real irony is that that era in CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC POLITICS is come and gone. Because the MEXICANS now have the MAJORITY BASE in CALIFORNIA and it is growing bigger and bigger every day as they chase everybody else out of the state while making five and six babies in every household. But that is another POLITICAL TALE.)
And then there is the REPUBLICAN SENATOR who was privy to NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION and was told in a VERY PRIVATE CONFERENCE that the COVID-19 was going to greatly affect the NATIONAL ECONOMY and the STOCK MARKET. So he went out and DUMPED over ONE MILLION is stocks while the market was still at 2900. But his biggest crime was that he came out and told the public that the COVID-19 was nothing to worry about so don't PANIC. And in a private luncheon with some of his HIGH-FLYING FRIENDS ... he told them that things were getting bad and the market was going to crash (well, he hinted that to them -- so you know what they did).
Of course, down in the MECCA OF THE STEELBAND, as carnival approached, the issue of canceling the CARNIVAL was on THE FRONT BURNER. But that is really BAD POLITICS -- so they jump and they prance and STILL PLAY DEY MAS.
Now the PRIME MINISTER is claiming a NATIONAL CORONA crisis and pretending to be the SAVIOUR of the nation -- after the horse BOLTED FROM THE BARN. The ECONOMY was already FRAGILE -- so you all could just imagine what is COMING ... as if the CRIME RATE was not HIGH ENOUGH ALREADY.
My final reference may fall under the CONSPIRACY THEORY label and it has to do with GLOBAL POLITICS. So I will not spill it all out. Instead, I would point to STATES like CALIFORNIA and WASHINGTON (STATE -- NOT WASHINGTON DC) and NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY and give you all an assignment to find out what those states have in common beside the HIGHEST RATES OF CORONA VIRUS.
POLITICIANS ALL OVER -- PIMPING THE CORONA VIRUS!!!
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