How Long Till California Runs Out of Juice?
And not the orange kind
Good day to everyone except my readers in California, who probably can’t read this because your power has been cut off.
Sounds great. So, how’s that going?
Oh. Whoops!
It must be that nasty, horrible climate change, or global warming, or whatever we’re supposed to call it now. It couldn’t be anything our leaders are doing, because they’re Democrats and therefore the good guys.
And California wants to ban gasoline-fueled cars by 2035. If Democrat-led states can’t handle their citizens’ power consumption as it is, what will happen to the power grid when everybody has to plug in their cars to go to work? Does Gavin Newsom think Doc Brown is gonna find a convenient lightning bolt? Will Thor use his magic hammer? If you need your car to move, do you just yell “Shazam”?
What on God’s green earth is this old man babbling about now?
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time…
But Joe Biden doesn’t always mutter complete gibberish. Sometimes he screams complete gibberish!
The pandemic is a distant memory now, huh? Thanks for the vaccines, guys, but now this crazy old man is gonna go back to demonizing you.
But hey, nobody’s prerfrect!
For whatever it’s worth, I don’t care that there are black people on fantasy shows. Yeah, okay, stuff like Game of Thrones and The Hobbit is based on medieval Europe, but also: Who cares? Black people can be nerds too.
But this is what happens every time:
I first noticed this phenomenon when the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out in 2015. A handful of trolls complained about John Boyega, and then everybody else had to tell you that they’re not racist. Because it feels so good to declare that you’re better than the bad people. How else will everyone know how enlightened you are? “I’d vote for Obama a third time if I could!”
The same thing happened when Michael B. Jordan was cast in that awful Fantastic Four movie, and when another black person played another character one of those Star Wars shows, and on and on. Most people didn’t care, but they needed to broadcast that they’re not racist.
This stuff isn’t news because racism is prevalent. It’s news because the overwhelming majority of people commenting on it are not racist. They have been trolled, and they want you to know about it.
Which isn’t to say those shows are good. House of the Dragon and Rings of Power are both very boring. But that’s the fault of the writers, not the actors. Well, not all the actors. The point is, both shows are mediocre for reasons that have nothing to do with race. Calm down, you dorks.
Although it is kinda funny that the people who say crap like “Every billionaire is a policy failure” are now concerned with Jeff Bezos’ investment…
Speaking of nerd rage, here’s another recent nontroversy:
Megan Thee Stallion appeared as herself on the latest She-Hulk, presumably because Cardi B wanted too much money. And a few people have complained that a giant green CGI person was twerking, because they don’t like things that are funny. But it’s only a few people.
Mostly nobody cares. It’s She-Hulk. It’s stupid. Just relax.
Three-day weekends, am I right? Somehow today feels like even more of a Tuesday than a usual Tuesday does.
Thanks for reading, and let’s do this again tomorrow. Same Treach-time, same Treach-channel.
It generally pays to remember that (especially) California politicians don't want the serf, er ordinary citizens, having access to more than the minimum of power/energy necessary to get them to their job and back. And that amount can be reduced by forcing them to live packed like sardines in huge apartment buildings and making them walk or take lengthy rides, again packed like sardines. on "public transportation".
That way the elites can have plenty for themseves.
Every time I try to feel bad for California, I just can't, because they chose this. The only Californians I feel bad for are the ones that actually stayed behind to fight for a different way, but in the end, for every voter that flees is one less that could have made a difference and as far as Democrat "self-selecting" enticements go, California has the ultimate enticement for people that could live better elsewhere to do so.