“Eleven on the sketch meter. People can die digging out their driveway!”
The good news is: The fierce Pacific storms that bent palm trees, tore off roofs and caused heaps of trouble along coastal California marched inland and dumped heaps of snow in the Sierras and hopefully put a serious dent in the drought.
California’s water supply is all up in that snowpack and five to eight feet of snow eased worries that California’s need for 38,000,000,000 gallons of water a day (yeah, 38 billion gallons, every day) will not be met and California might return to: “If it’s yellow then it’s mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down.”
And nobody wants that.
The bad news is, all the snow flocking the Sierras is attracting flocks of powder hounds and families who might be unaware of just how dangerous several feet of fresh-dumped snow can be.
Ken “Skindog” Collins esq (we don’t know when he got a law degree) is a powder hound who hit the Sierras and found more than he bargained for.
At 9:00 PM on Sunday the 26th of December, Collins found himself boxed in by snow on Boxing Day. He most likely took this photo earlier in the day, and sent it from his car, stuck in snow and traffic.
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The next morning, at 8:39 AM PST, Collins appeared to have broken through and appeared to be in a parking lot somewhere. He made a Public Service Announcement from behind the wheel of his large automobile, sipping on a cup of coffee, wearing a hood over his Volcom cap.
Boys! Update! As you know, there’s a massive storm we just had in the Sierras. Eight foot plus, super light and fluffy, killer snow. Very dangerous. Eleven on the sketch meter. Like don’t go in the back country is like common sense. But don’t go walking around your house right now. There’s an avalanche on every single rooftop on the condo you’re staying at, the house you’re staying at even at the resort you’re in right now. There could be a half ton of snow falling on you or your child and it could suffocate you. People can die digging out their driveway. It’s that dangerous, so be very mindful. Don’t go walking around under trees that look like they could drop two tons of snow on you. Huh. I know it sounds silly but don’t let your kids go have a snowball fight unsupervised. Seriously. It’s like letting them swim on the beach with 100-foot waves. It’s like…. That dangerous. It could happen so quick and easy. Someone could die digging out their driveway or the side of their house. Like…seriously. Be careful. Don’t go for a drive. Stay put. Wait this out. It will be fine. And that’s it.
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And Skindog’s warnings were correct, as the next day, newspapers across California were headlined with reports that Interstate 80 was closed indefinitely, there was an avalanche across Highway 89, etc. etc.
The Tahoe Daily Tribune declared this month:
“A December to remember” and reported: “South Lake Tahoe, Calif. – This sure has been a December to remember and it will literally go down in the record books.
Overnight snowfall rates were recorded by NWS across the Sierra at rates of 2-4″ per hour and continuing through sunrise. This brought snow ranges of 18-36“ 24-hr totals reported by the resorts at the higher elevations. Lake level residents were smothered with another 12-16” in their driveways with little room to displace the new snow. That’s over 100“ in just 6 days!
The snowfall record for December of 1970 at the Central Sierra Snow Lab was 179“ but with the recent burst of 39” of snow our official totals now sit at 193“ with more on the way.”
One hundred ninety three inches of snow is more than sixteen feet of snow, which means plenty of stored water for California, and maybe the folks down in Lemoore won’t complain so hard when Kelly and Co throw big roostertails and huck all that precious, cool, clear water down at Surf Ranch, which is right in the middle of California’s water wars.
And we’ll do the math for you: Even with 40 million people in the state, 70% of that water is used by agriculture. And 38 billion gallons of water a day is a whopping 13,870,000,000,000 gallons of water a year.
That’s enough to fill Surf Ranch 13,870,000,000,000 / 15,000,000 = 924,666.66666666666666666666 times.
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If somehow the avalanche landed in foreskin dogs mouth he might be able to save the kiddies
Who give a fuck what this guy has to say about anything ? Total wanker and a shit article
Ken Collins is in the thiCk of it and genuinely concerned for public safety.
That was a valid warning.
This has been an unprecedented snow year.
You’re an idiot. A bogan. A yobbo.
Please ignore all mask and vaccination protocols.
Tah.
Are you actually foreskin dog or just his manfriend?
you are
Or maybe just an elementary school kid with that comeback ! I guess Santa Cruz isn’t know for it’s education system
You heard Elon Musk.
Education is overrated.
You’re either intelligent or you’re not.
I refuse to take safety advice from someone who surfs the bowl at Mav’s
Yep, a few states still require neg PCR test in previous 72 hrs before arrival. Only thing is turnaround on tests has blown out to 4-5 days. They’ve quickly realised the ridiculousness of it now omicron is everywhere and are scrapping it from Jan 1.
We are just gonna hang south of the border now tho. Super bank gonna be pumping over New Years which is annoying but broken head and Lennox are not bad back ups.
This years final at Trestles was a novelty due to Covid and WSL was lucky that Medina won as he should have had the trophy in his mitts well before the final event. Surely now they need the final in an “ola de verdad” as Medina said or a “a proper wave”. Would have been disgusting if connor coffin or Morgan Cibilic won that title due to an interference or injury etc. If the final event is in heavy, perfect waves, I don’t think competitors have the right to complain about format as they will look like pussies. I could surf that wave in Mexico even when it’s big, sand could also be no good at that time of event. Relying on sand bottom point is it a gamble
That Trestles event was pretty good although Steph Gilmore was waaaaaay off and they shoulda let Kelly do an Expression Session between the finals heats, because he still surfs the place great.
If you put four surfers out there for a Best Of expression session, who would that be?
1. Kelly Slater.
2. John John
3. Joel Tudor – just for the hell of it.
4. Joe Crimo? Christian?
Filipe Toledo, Gab Medina, Italo Ferriera, Dane Reynolds, Mateus Herdy..
Plowing through this article was far more tedious and dispiriting.
B__ M_____ excessively commenting on a B__ M_____ article is maybe the most Beachgrit thing ever.
Having learned from Breitbart and Seeking Alpha, JonathanTurley and other websites, it’s remarkable what you can learn arguing with people who don’t know shiznit.
They don’t have their facts straight, so one has to.
And in having one’s facts straight, one learns, doesn’t one?
And it’s possible the Peanut Gallery here is even dumber than Breitbart.
And that’s scary.
so really dumb Peanut gallery here…mongols everywhere….so why do you comment and write articles on BG?
kicks
c’mon admit it ….it’s the only place that you can have a conversation and feel superior ..in your own mind?
Naw there’s lotsa places.
Its just funny what you can learn arguing with people who don’t know diddly.
What’s more contagious here in the 21st Century: Covid or ignorance?
They’ve had some sorta shot, def not a vaccine
I didn’t like the second Bond – Quantum of Solace – because it was about some dude cornering the water supply in Bolivia.
Who cares? Should have been about cornering the lithium supply in Bolivia.
Fortunately, most of the world’s lithium are in relatively stable countries that are somewhat America friendly – Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Australia.
Are you saying China controls all the lithium in those countries?
Doubt it.
Turkey has more graphite reserves than China and Brazil has almost as much.
Are you saying China controls all the graphite in those two countries?
Doubt it.
And apparently there was just a huge lithium discovery in a volcano in Nevada.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12…
You think China is gonna control that? Doubt it.
Australia has been telling China to sod off and stop pushing them around and good for Australia.
China needs a good and proper ass whupping for a lot of things and I still don’t know why China isn’t being held responsible for compensation and damages for Covid – that’s one of the few things Trump said I agreed with, but I think his $10 trillion figure was a low ball.
Chuck Fina.
They’ve got their own problems, like 1.4 billion mouths to feed every day.
with their investments ($$$$) in infrastructure in the very countries you mention above (via the Roads and Bridges Initiative), for you to state them to NOT be in control now, nor strongly-angled to soon gain control, of these resources would be incredibly naive
You really think China has hijacked Brazil? Argentina?
Doubt it.
Bolivia maybe.
Australia doesn’t need Belt and Road money from China.
(Belt and Road, not Road and Bridge)
Neither does Brazil. And they’ll just default anyway.
And if that volcano in Nevada lives up to the hype, China can suck eggs.
I think all the countries that have Belt and Road money should default because of the massive economic damage caused by Covid.
China is 100% responsible for that, and the world should just say no.
China holds $1 trillion in American debt, but how much has Covid cost America?
And how about $100,000 per person for the 5,000,000+ dead?
Chuck Fina.
but you merrycans made China what it is today… you moved manufacturing to China because you could make more money , and now are dependent on China……
OLD SURFER NOONE CARES ABOUT POSTS ON INSTAGRAM FOR REPETITION BY OLD MAN WHO WORKED FOR SURFER THAT NOONE CARES ABOUT.
Cool.
If you ever come to California, go to Steamer Lane and tell Skindog he’s a surfer no one cares about.
I dare you. I triple dog dare you.
The person who no one cares about is some haggis-eating wannabe surfer/wannabe writer dork from Scootland.
Foreskin dog can have the lane , shit wave , shit head
Mavericks then.
Ever seen The Lane on a big southern hemi swell?
It’s a great wave in the summer when the surf is giant from the right angle and far away.
When Saberjet Reef is popping.
Take off at the Point and go all the way to Cowells, if you’re lucky.
I wouldn’t have a clue, and don’t really give a shit, about skindog or steamer lane.
Ya fuckin’ bang on with ya last sentence though I reckon.
The blokes a pain in the arse who seems completely jealous of you and your past job(s).
In all his comments ya can really feel him seething with envy over the fact you’ve done things that he’ll never get a chance to do.
I find it bloody hilarious, keep it up.
P.S.
Just lay off on all the incomplete Malibu name dropping and deleting etc, that gets a bit tedious…
The incomplete n_____ d_____ has become a beloved staple of BeachGrit commenters.
Haven’t seen anyone famous lately unless J____ P____ counts and he should.
The Scottish dude is a wannabe and probably a millennial and is living a life of regret because he’s not American and couldn’t vote for Trump.
I think Flacid is lsd from the Sunshine State…
When I was there SURFER was owned by a concrete mogul named Bud Fabian who let us do whatever and we did. But this was during the Roaring 90s when money was flowing like a burst reservoir (see next story).
In the fullness of time I realized I punched my way out of there at the right time because SURFER got sold to Peterson and then passed along like a cheap whore to this publishing group and that publishing group and ended up in some sad building under the same roof as SURFING Magazine as part of some Action Sports Enthusiast Group.
SURFER’s online presence sucked because the people who did it were not talented.
If the Internet had been bubbling when we were there we would have destroyed it.
But SURFER folding was like putting a noble lion out of its misery.
When we did it, we had it great.
I visited the offices once or twice when it was part of some dumbass corporate Enthusiass Group Network and boy was that sad.
Low ceilings. No windows. Yuck.
Ping pong in the warehouse with Kelly and Brock?
Nope.
Dumb. Lame.
As is most of the surf industry these days.
Australia is over
I’m off to buy some new Volcom gear.
I have a pretty high tolerance for trolling, but intentionally publishing Ben Marcus might be more than I can take. Well done BeachGrit, I think you broke me.
You’ve been broken for quite some time. It’s a DNA thing.
What do you think is the source of your issues? Chemical imbalance? Substance abuse? Poor upbringing? Environment? My money is on all of the above.
The real source?
Understanding that the world is overflowing with know nothing idiot proles, and they can elect presidents and stuff.
It’s scary.
Idiocracy is here already.
I will agree with you on that
You were being insulted. Don’t agree.
I’m too dumb to know when I’m being insulted. Just like you
According to Hippy and Negs, you are now trying to regulate this blog by commenting about Ben being intolerable. Bad boy Ricky.
Carp. Right.
How’s the weather in Stockton? Can you see snow in the Sierras?
Can you wakeboard the Delta in winter or is it too cold?
Carp. You’re a carp.
Well, Carp is short for Carpinteria. And I am not Carpas. And much like Hippy and anyone else not born there, will never be from there. Stockton though? Not too sure, never been.
As said elsewhere, only transplants and wannabes trying to be local would ever call it “Carp.”
It’s a dead giveaway.
Like calling California “Cali.”
Dont be a wannabe.
For someone who is such a little bitch about spelling/grammar, you could have started your little article by using correct spelling/grammar in the title.
Proper spelling and grammar distinguish us from the Mongol races.
And it was the editors who misspelled “and”
So stop carping.
Hahahahahah!
Get it??!?!?!?
No? Okay.
Unfortunately, I only see your name listed.
dude brings up mongrel races very often too….
The “cool” bus left him at a street corner and he’s been clawing his way back in ever since. Which is the problem Ben, you staked your career on Ad Copy and the industry you felatted is toast.
ha that’s mongols ….like Ghenghis Khan…and his merry mounted men……I think the Mongols controlled most of the known world for a time…when Benny uses mongols to try and distinguish his obviously superior intellect……pretty bloody funny!
We were lucky to be there in the Roaring 90s.
Lotta money around, surfing was cool, things were possible.
Cool dudes like Brock and Gerlach and Chesser and Briley and Kelly: smart, talented, funny.
Clever bastards who started the companies knew how to have fun and threw the money around.
And we dudnt fellate anyone.
We let people have it when they deserved it.
It was fun to be a part of.
Just a shame it was all in Orange County.
Video Awards and that.
Sorry you missed it while you were off gardening or driving limos or whatever.
PS You ever do anything as fun or creative or influential as editing a surf magazine for 10 years you let us know will you?
Oooo I surfed big Topanga in the 19th century.
Hoop de do.
Dude is homeless poaching wifi from the Malibu Library and can no longer surf first point without a paddle.
Technically, no hospital in that town so no one was born here traditionally.
I do like your spirit and you’re right about the commenter, he’s a pork and his magazine was a pig.
Am I trolling them now?
what happened to Lodge Grit? where’s @snowbored on this one?
70% of that water is used by agriculture (aka pot farms)
38 billion gallons of water a day is quite a number. No wonder we have water shortages.
Take a deep dive into the depths of the electrical grid capacity, daily usage of households/businesses/etc. combined and how much more demand on the electrical grid would be required if only half of all cars in CA were electric. Mind you, there’s roughly 20 million vehicles in CA, so just calculate the demand for 10 million.
Bill Gates and TerraPower are the Great Green Hope.
After January 1 all vehicles sold in Norway will be electric.
No more stinkpots.
Norway is the model.
But they have 5 million, not 40 million.
if Orange County were to somehow tragically disappear…
Bill Gates is China’s future. Just ask China.
And let’s be honest, you have the market cornered on disappearing. In fact, I’d say your current comment is amped for watts expected in it’s future…. disappeared.
Bill Gates could be to TerraPower what Dirk Ziff is to KSWCO = oodles of money makes things happen.
And stop with all the Biden/Gates/China conspiracy theory BS. This right up there with Chem Trails and Deep State.
You embarrass me.
You embarrass yourself.
Gates has loved China for awhile.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/…
Biden is barely cognizant. That said, his ties to China run deep. That’s not conspiracy theory. China has it’s tentacles in many a left-wing endeavors Stateside. Can you say Thousand Talents Plan? Then there’s Hunter’s ties. The Biden family has been doing this sort of shit since sloppy Joe first entered politics.
But, I was specifically speaking about Gates and China. Gates has ludicrous money. China has ludicrous plans for the future as they see it. Gates has some ludicrous ideas. China n’ Bill Gates sittin in a tree….k-i
Well Gates probably figures any country gullible and dumb enough to elect a vulgar, corrupt, pussy-grabbing, wife-cheating, sad-stripper-shagging-and-bribing, student-defrauding, charity-stealing, draft-dodging, tax-evading, Lysol-huffing, election-fraud-inventing, riot-inciting charlatan of a game-show host as president is a doomed country.
China has 1.4 billion mouths to feed so they aren’t shy about nuclear power so maybe Gates is dealing with them.
All my friends who do business over there say China is The Jetsons and America is The Flintstones.
Biden is trying to fix that by dragging America kicking and screaming into the 21st Century with the Green New Deal and the infrastructure plan but he’s getting resistance from the same short-sighted idiots who elected Trump.
America might be doomed by all that dipshit DNA
I would suggest that Elon Musk disagrees with you on Biden and all thangs Dem these days. The Dems are pushing a vote gaining/social agenda masked as the Green New Deal. This while the private sector can gain government support, ie tax breaks and incentives, all day long for the right tech tied to the green evolution BUT we await better tech such as the next exponential jump in battery tech for EVs and more efficient solar that isn’t remotely there yet for mass consumption. The green revolution will take time and the Pelosis, Warrens and AOCs are not lucid enough to get it, hence their targeting of Musk. Now as for Bezos and his dirty sanchez..oh never mind
Obama/Biden saved Musk’s bisquit.
See the BOILERPLATE below.
Musk doesn’t like Biden not inviting him to an EV summit, but that was just Biden making nice with the unions in those northern midwest states that turned blue and voted him in.
Musk also doesn’t like Biden proposing 500,000 EV charging stations across the country by 2030, but that’s also a little short-sighted.
The sooner those charging stations go in and are up and running,. the sooner this country weens itself from the political and environmental toxicities of fossil fuels.
The Green New Deal is up and running already.
If you lived where I live, it’s everywhere.
Eventually the rest of the country will catch on and wake up and catch up.
Musk has nothing to complain about with Biden.
They saved his ass with a half a billion dollar loan that no one else would have given him.
And especially wouldn’t have given him and not asked for a stake in the company.
Uncle Sam just wanted Musk to pay the money back, and he did.
THE BOILERPLATE
Under Obama, Biden loaned Tesla $465 million to Tesla under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program.
Tesla used the money to modernize and robotize the Fremont plant and build the Tesla S.
Tesla paid that loan back nine years early with $15 million interest, and that loan is creating tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in new wealth.
And God knows how much tax revenue. And it’s a gift that is going to keep on giving long into the future.
Look at the factory in Texas, and the jobs created there.
And look at what that loan has inspired, like Ford investing $11 billion to build battery factories and a truck plant in Kentucky.
The success of the Tesla S sparked that, and the success of the Tesla S has a foundation in that loan overseen by Biden.
Point me toward any one thing Trump attempted or achieved that comes anywhere close to that one loan by Biden to Tesla.
The truth is, the sum total of everything Trump attempted and achieved don’t add up to that one loan by Biden to Tesla.
That is proof that the Green New Deal is the Real Deal, and it’s the foundation of the American Jobs Proposal and the Infrastructure Plan.
That’s MAGA. That’s vision and leadership and success.
There’s more to Making America Great Again than parading around the proles in a stupid red hat.
Great talking points and the US needs Tesla more than most realize! BUT your boilerplate is flawed, now with some 10Q reviews or less Dem koolaid you’d know some of the below. Here are some facts that most Dems missed out on or choose to ignore. The ATVM you give Obama/Biden credit for was signed into law by Bush in ’07 . Now another fun fact to keep in mind, Tesla paid off that loan due to Tesla risking default on loan covenants tied to another lending facility. YES they had to pay the ATVM off early which the Teslarians are mostly are unaware of unless they worked in Tesla’s finance group under their legendary CFOs.
As for Trump, who cares about him save his tryst with Stormy. BUT surely you can apply the same metric to Obama/Biden that you apply Trump? You can do it you try.
Here are some great Dem talking points:
– Obama’s DOJ nailed VW(an embarrassing over step by DOJ) for dieselgate and Electrify America was born
– Obama/Biden’s support of unions has helped the unions to limit/cripple US auto innovation
– Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan
-Biden(Hunter and Joe) became obscenely wealthy during his 8 years as VP
-Obama became obscenely wealthy during his 8 years in the White House.
– Those EV charging stations are not based in reality until we have the infrastructure to support the production of electricity necessary to run mass EVs. To think otherwise is interesting.
Now we must understand why Americans loathe Biden with such fervor?
Great talking points and the US needs Tesla more than most realize!
IF YOU LIVED WHERE I LIVE, YOU WOULD KNOW ELECTRIC CARS ARE THE FUTURE.
BUT MOST PLACES ARE NOT THIS WEALTHY AND/OR PROGRESSIVE
BUT your boilerplate is flawed,
THERE’S MORE RIGHT THAN WRONG.
now with some 10Q reviews or less Dem koolaid you’d know some of the below.
IT’S NOT DEM KOOLAID, IT’S FACT.
Here are some facts that most Dems missed out on or choose to ignore. The ATVM you give Obama/Biden credit for was signed into law by Bush in ’07 .
YES BUT DID BUSH43 MAKE THAT LOAN, NO HE DIDN’T.
DID BUSH43 MAKE ANY LOAN?
Now another fun fact to keep in mind, Tesla paid off that loan due to Tesla risking default on loan covenants tied to another lending facility. YES they had to pay the ATVM off early which the Teslarians are mostly are unaware of unless they worked in Tesla’s finance group under their legendary CFOs.
AND YET THEY MANAGED TO PAY OFF A HALF A BILLION DOLLAR LOAN PLUS $15 MILLION INTEREST, NINE YEARS EARLY
DID TESLA GO PUBLIC BEFORE OR AFTER THEY PAID OFF THE LOAN, I CAN’T REMEMBER.
REGARDLESS, THEY PAID OFF THAT LOAN BEFORE ANY OTHER RECIPIENTS OF ATVM DID, IF ANY OTHERS PAID THEM BACK.
As for Trump, who cares about him save his tryst with Stormy. ‘
HE’S AN IDIOT.
BUT surely you can apply the same metric to Obama/Biden that you apply Trump?
THERE’S NO COMPARISON
OBAMA/BIDEN INHERITED AN ECONOMY ABSOLUTELY TRASHED BY BUSH43
REMEMBER THE GREAT RECESSION? WASN’T SO GREAT.
OBAMA/BIDEN DID MIRACLES SAVING THE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY AND WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND SAVING BILLIONS.
THEY SET THE TABLE AND THEN TRUMP CAME IN AND SHIT ALL OVER THE TABLE AND SOMEHOW MADE A BIGGER MESS THAN BUSH43
You can do it you try.
Here are some great Dem talking points:
– Obama’s DOJ nailed VW(an embarrassing over step by DOJ) for dieselgate and Electrify America was born
THAT’S GOOD. I BELIEVE VW HAD TO BUILD A BUNCH OF SUPER CHARGERS IN MALIBU NEAR THE OYSTER PLACE, ALTHOUGH THAT COULD BE WRONG.
– Obama/Biden’s support of unions has helped the unions to limit/cripple US auto innovation
THE UNIONS SUCK, BUT THEY ARE POWERFUL.
MUSK WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNIONS WHICH IS HOW TESLA CAN INNOVATE AND PRODUCE IMPOSSIBLY FAST.
MUSK IS SMART.
BUT IF YOU SHAFT THE UNIONS, YOU DON’T GET ELECTED
IT’S CALLED POLITICS AND SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PLAY IT.
– Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan
HE ESCALATED IT AND THEN DE-ESCALATED IT.
YOU THINK OBAMA WANTED TO BE AT WAR AT ALL?
YOU DON’T THINK HE WOULD HAVE WAVED HIS WAND AND ENDED IT ALL IF HE COULD HAVE?
READ “CONFRONT AND CONCEAL” THE OBAMA DOCTRINE REDUCED AMERICAN FORCES TO CYBER, SPECIAL FORCES AND WHAT PETRAEUS CALLED “THE COIN OF THE REALM” – DRONES.
SILENT BUT DEADLY DEATH FROM ABOVE
BUSH43 WAS SPENDING $2 BILLION A MONTH, OBAMA SPENT $2 BILLION IN TWO YEARS.
-Biden(Hunter and Joe) became obscenely wealthy during his 8 years as VP
JOE BIDEN IS WORTH LIKE $9 MILLION. MY NEIGHBORS HAVE GUEST HOUSES WORTH MORE THAN THAT.
JOE BIDEN ISN’T WEALTHY AT ALL, AND HUNTER IS JUST A SAD SCREWUP WHO SUFFERS FROM CTE PROBABLY,
HE WAS LIVING NEXT TO STORM SONDORS IN VENICE AND NOW IS IN BIG ROCK.
IF HE WAS THAT WEALTHY WOULD HE BE TRYING TO SELL HIS PAINTINGS FOR HALF A MILLION?
NETIEHR ARE RICH.
-Obama became obscenely wealthy during his 8 years in the White House.
OBAMA BECAME WEALTHY AFTER HIS 8 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND HE DID THAT BY SELLING BOOKS.
PEOPLE CAN GET RICH SELLING BOOKS – SEE HARRY POTTER.
AND ALSO NETFLIX DEALS.
OBAMA IS WORTH LIKE $40 MILLION AND HE COULD HAVE EASILY MADE THAT JUST BY INVESTING IN TESLA.
THE GUY SAVED AMERICA’S ECONOMIC ASS AND WALKED AROUND WITH A GIANT BULLSEYE ON HIS BACK FOR EIGHT YEARS IN A NATION FULL OF MULLETHEADS – HE EARNED THE DOUGH.
– Those EV charging stations are not based in reality until we have the infrastructure to support the production of electricity necessary to run mass EVs. To think otherwise is interesting.
GOTTA START SOMEWHERE.
BIDEN HAS LEARNED FROM MUSK: PUSH PUSH PUSH
AIM FOR THE STARS, LAND ON THE MOON
AT LEAST BIDEN IS LOOKING FORWARD
THE TESLA LOAN PROVED THAT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS THE REAL DEAL.
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN NEW WEALTH.
FROM ONE LOAN.
Now we must understand why Americans loathe Biden with such fervor?
AMERICANS DON’T HATE BIDEN.
HALF OF THEM DO, BUT THOSE ARE THE HALF WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP,
THE IDIOT HALF.
LONG AS CALIFORNIA STAYS BLUE, THE REST OF THE COUNTRY CAN SUCK EGGS.
YAWN, come on! Where do I get those Dem blinders you wear? Are they made in the same factory as the Trumper blinders? Why yes I believe are…
Dems don’t need blinders. Republicans screw it up. Democrats clean it up. California is by far the most Democratic state in the union and it is also by far the most influential, most progressive, most productive and most prosperous state in the union.
By far.
Why? Because it’s run by Democrats and not a bunch of idiot Republicans.
Biden is not that wealthy. He’s not in it for the money, he’s in it to do a proper job and guide the country.
Which is what a president is supposed to be.
All the accusations against Biden and Hunter are mostly a smokescreen to cover up the outrageous corruptions of the other side.
Trump lied through this teeth about election fraud and incited a mob of mullet-headed idiots to raid the Capitol.
The Democrats will never be able to touch, that – ever.
Trump lost a $25 million lawsuit for defrauding students which is probably more than the net worth of Hunter and Joe together.
Republicans screw it up. Democrats clean it up.
Wake up.
I’m surprised an educated person like you is such a disciple of politicians(aka grifters to the worst degree), regardless of which side of the aisle they slither from. BUT mostly I am fearful for your well-being tied to this worship and of course the TDS that appears to have you rather upset. Now keep this a secret but Trump is no longer President, he is irrelevent and can try to keep himself and his low IQ out of jail.
Now regarding how incredible CA is, why is it that the wealthy(you know the neighbors you worship) set up LLCs in states like Nevada to shelter income, personal and business, to prevent the Dems running CA from taking all of their hard earned money? Why did Elon leave for Texas, why is there a net exodus of the 1%ers leaving and why have so many great companies pulled their HQs from CA? Just facts my friend and as long as Pelosi can get her hair done while the bourgeoisie eat cake all is good in lotusland…
BTW, I hope this doesn’t upset you but I love the Bay Area more so that LA as where else can I poop on the street after a great meal in a michelin rated restaurant? Or eat sushi and not pay…
Tesla to Texas seemed disloyal but the math is obvi. 15 years ago Apple paid $156 million for a square Mike to build their circular HQ in Santa Clara.
640 acres.
Tesla gor 2100 acres in Austin for $5,000,000 a couple years ago.
So $240,000 an acre or $2500?
Hmmmm rough choice.
Also smart to move Teska away from being seen as a California company and to bring jobs to a Red State and build build bizarre pickup in Redneck land.
Musk is a smart mofo.
Musk went to Texas to dodge taxes the same way H Hughes went to Nevada after he sold TWA for $500,000,000 in 1965.
Musk is still going to pay multi billions in taxes.
Can’t blame him for wanting to save billions.
People aren’t exodizing from California fast enough. The population of California has increased 1000+ people a day every day since 1960.
Gee! We have infrastructure problems and high cost of living!!! Why could that be when 1/9th the population of the entire country are crammed into one state?
If we could reverse that flow for 10 years that would take tHe strain ofF tHe grid and tHe reservoirs and the state would be golden again.
California cane through Covid with a $38 billion surplus and is the only state to write stimulus checks.
Where did that revenue come from? Taxes on the 1%.
Small.minded snarkers – such as yourself ‘ always talk about shitty streets and miss a much much larger picture.
Tge positives of California far outweigh tge negatives.
If the rest of the country were as wealthy and progressive as California, the Republican Party would cease to exist.
California looks at the rest of the country tge way Norway and Switzerland look at the rest of Eurooe: “Poor dumb bastarda. Better them than us.”
Your arguments are feeble and tired and Faux News.
You should be on Breitbart.
Unworthy.
Shame.
Seems to me you struggle with facts that don’t fit your chosen narrative. I understand, I truly do as it is a common malady among those who need to worship politicians. Stay strong!
Republicans screw it up. Democrats clean it up.
Bush43 trashes the economy and the Great Recession happens on his watch.
Obama does miracles, cleans it all up, ends some wars, saves lives, saves billions in eight years.
Sets the table and them Trump bullshits his way in and shits all over the table and leaves a bigger mess than Bush43.
And lies through his teeth and incites a bunch of mulletheaded proles to raid the Capitol and kill cops.
How Trump is not in prison is a mystery.
When I was younger the Republicans were greedy and self righteous and lame but at least they made the trains run on time.
Now they’re a bunch of worldclass fuckups.
Conspiracy theorists.
The Waco Kid knows who they are: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
BRAVO! Ewe have all of the talking points nailed down so the Dems have completed your brainwashing! Now like the Trumpers you have one purpose and one purpose only! Spread the gospel, however foolish ewe(like the Trumpers) sound and/or look!
Wrong. The Republican Party has devolved into a bunch of shreking conspiracy theory idiots.
the Democrats run things responsibly.
Look at California.
Rich, influential. Progr3ssive.
Surely the Trumpers and/or the Republicans are to blame for the sewage mess, because the CA Dems are so perfect and righteous…HAHAHAHAHA
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Sewage mess? The sewage mess is the result of the same thing that causes most of California’s problems: Overpopulation.
Sewage mess in Santa Monica Bay?
There are 10 million people living in Los Angeles County alone, which is more than Nevada or Arizona or Oregon or Idaho or a lot of states.
Too many people x extraordinary rainfall = sewage spills.
Too many people. Simple as that.
Lets not forget the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant spill in July or the Boyle Heights Sewage Spill…must be all of those people as the Dems could never be to blame even though the facts aren’t in their corner! YAWN!
Too many people.
Got nothing to do with Dems or Repubs.
Population of Califirnua has increased 1000 people a day every day for the last 61 years.
1/9th the population of the Inited States lives in one state.
The Golden State.
10 million people in Los Angeles County.
Too.
Many.
People.
Causes.
Serious.
Shit.
but, BUT it is the greatest Dem run city/state IN THE WORLD!
Los Angeles?
Probably not.
Maybe at one time.
Where I live is great and sublime and gives a taste of what all of Los Angeles and Califiornia was like post World War II
But the population density is 600 per square Mike and tve per capita income is probably $150 000+
All California coastal cities are troubled.
Too.
Many.
People.
Los Angeles, like California, has extremes of good and bad.
Where i live is part of Los Angeles and probably in the Top 10 of desirable places to live in the world – which is why it’s so expensive.
And California, like the USA, has extremes of good and bad.
California with less people would be less extreme – good and bad.
Malibu…YAWN!
Malibu is the last, best place in Southern California. It has somehow managed to fend off the urban and suburban gack that besets it on three sides.
Rebelliously defiant against development.
Possibly the best weather on the planet.
A lot of smart, creative, prosperous, interesting folks.
Swimming fools and movie stars.
Surfing-wise it’s kind of lame, but if you come from the Monterey Bay, most of soCal is lame surfing wise.
Drive into Oxnuts or the Valley or Santa Monica or – horrors! – Los Angeles and you can’t wait to get back to the Malibu.
Like Norway and Montana and Montauk, they’ve done a nice job of not screwing it up.
Sounds like envy could be causing you strain, which is common in places like Malibu. Time to find a new location, maybe some time in Encinitas would do your soul some good. My parents left LA in ’54, best move they ever made…
It’s not envy. The truth is, Malibu is naturally blessed and beautiful. You should see what I’m looking at right now.
Is Encinitas naturally blessed and beautiful?
No.
I lived in San Clemente for 10 years, in a million dollar house on the nicest street in town at the top of the hill.
Was that naturally blessed and beautiful?
No, San Clemente is Boise by the Sea.
Is Los Angeles naturally blessed and beautiful?
Maybe in the hills but the rest of it is just suburban sprawl on an oil patch on desert.
Malibu is like world-class beautiful, it just has layers of rich and famous on top of it.
We are riding our Ebikes down the sand this afternoon/evening at low tide.
The sunsets are out of this world, like being on Mars.
That’s why people live in Malibu – natural beauty and perfect weather.
Envy for the tragically hip/rich you are surrounded by? Are you looking at traffic spewing particulates on PCH?
So you ride your coal powered ebikes on the sand to watch the particulate matter enhanced sunsets? You’ll need your Pattagucci puffy jacket tonight to stay warm.
Did you live in a $1m house in San Clemente back in the late 60s?
Don’t tell anyone but the LA oil patch you loathe provides plastics(see Pattagucci) and other products that you cannot live without. If only my grandfather had kept those mineral rights, but better ones came along…love taking the long way up La Cienega over to Crenshaw!
Envy for the tragically hip/rich you are surrounded by?
It’s not envy, it’s appreciation.
The people I’m surrounded by are neither tragic nor rich. They aren’t pretending to be rich and famous – they are rich and famous. They don’t have to pretend.
The famous have to be visible but there are a lot of very accomplished, successful people here who do their damndest to be invisible.
They are smart, talented, hard-working, decent people. One eye opener here has been when you meet the real person behind Kid Rock or Pam Anderson or Lorraine Bracco or a lot of these celebrities.
They are all much sharper than they let on.
That’s also true of Kelly and Laird. Those are sharp dudes.
I’ll take my smart people anywhere I can get them.
IF I want to hear from snarky dumbshits, I go on Beachgrit or Breitbart or watch Fox News.
Are you looking at traffic spewing particulates on PCH?
The people spewing particulates on PCH are primarily from the Valley or Oxnard or wherever you’re from.
Malibu probably has more Teslas and Charging Stations per capita than anywhere outside of Palo Alto or Oslo.
You get a glimpse of the future here and the future is electric.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Malibu was the first California city to go 100% eclectic, as Norway just did.
So you ride your coal powered ebikes on the sand to watch the particulate matter enhanced sunsets?
We can see the power plant at Redondo Beach from here and I don’t think it’s coal powered. Probably natural gas or fuel oil.
And California wants to be 100% renewable grid and 100% electric cars by mid-century.
Like Norway. It would be a lot easier if California had just over 5 million people and not just under 40 million.
And those sunsets are caused by latitude and the angle of the sun this time of year.
Moroccan sunsets are very similar, because of the latitude.
You’ll need your Pattagucci puffy jacket tonight to stay warm.
I wear a puffy 49ers jacket from Poshmark for $15.
That’s all I need.
And an electric blanket.
Did you live in a $1m house in San Clemente back in the late 60s?
Dumb question, but I doubt there was a $1m house in San Clemente in the late 60s. Maybe Nixon’s house.
I was there in the late 1990s, as SURFER Magazine was dying.
This is the house.
https://www.estately.com/li…
$2,000,000+ now.
Shit, I’d have a Tesla.
Tesla went up $150 today by the way.
A lot of my neighbors just paid for new guest houses in one day.
Summertime by Janis Joplin is the best cover of a song, ever.
Don’t tell anyone but the LA oil patch you loathe provides plastics(see Pattagucci) and other products that you cannot live without.
Nothing wrong with soaking up all that oil wealth out of the ground as long as there is an alternative in place.
And that alternative is in full display in Malibu.
If only my grandfather had kept those mineral rights, but better ones came along…love taking the long way up La Cienega over to Crenshaw!
If only you weren’t a half-smart smartass on Beachgrit, like all the rest.
“If only you weren’t a half-smart smartass on Beachgrit, like all the rest”
SHHH, don’t tell anyone I’m digressing after a serious career and enjoying behaving “half-smart” because I can afford to act as I chose…just like your neighbors that you look up to all day, every day.
So much fun!
choose not chose
I don’t look up to the neighbors, I’m just tired of dumbasses and would rather be around sophistos
NOOOO! You didn’t really put on your Spelling Police hat did you? Why yes you did and that may force me to take off my “half-smartass hat” and put on my Syntax Police hat. A critique of your various efforts could be devastating for the former surf bois editor.
I am left to wonder what Urban Dictionary thinks of Spelling Police?
It is proper spelling and grammar that distinguish us from the Mongol races.
Critique away. You won’t find much or anything.
And is barista now considered a serious professional career?
YES on barista as it may be the most important job in the US these days!
Biden is fine.
Turn off all that shitty rap and EDM music you listen to and actually listen to or read what he’s saying and its loud and clear.
Biden is trying to drag America into the 21st Century but he’s getting resistance from brainless proles.
And Hunter is just a sad fuckup I think he suffers from CTE. How else to examine his bizare behavior?
Like Aaron Hernandez.
I’m gonna look up Thousand Talents Plan but it’s probably ChemTrails or Deep State or Agenda 69 or the other conspiracy theory BS you proles are on about.
Yes, yes, Biden is fine, just fine, nothing to see here, he’s fine, we swear…
https://youtu.be/NuIjn6EEIV8
Trump said more stupid BS lies on purpose in a week than Biden has said by accident his entire life. He stutters. He has a lot on his mind. Give a brother a break.
Let’s not act like Biden doesn’t lie on the regular. Daily in fact. Demonstrably false shit about what his administration has done, what he’s done. The guy has claimed he was involved in the civil rights movement and actively participated in desegregation. He’s shameless.
He just told state Governors there’s no Federal solution for Covid. Trump said that from the get go. The question is if there’s no Federal solution Joe then why Federal mandates?
Biden doesn’t lie at all. He talks straight but Trumpers can’t handle it because they’re so used to the president lying.
And people don’t like what he says so they interpet it as lies.
There probably is no Federal solution to Covid, just as there is no legal or moral solution to the situation at the border, or racism, or a lot of problems.
The Federal mandates are an attempt to do whatever is necessary to stop Covid, which you might have noticed has killed millions around the world and cost untold trillions in economic losses.
Biden is helping to protect people, should he just throw his hands in the air and huff Lysol, like Trump?
“Actively participated in desegregation?”
You use that word but I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Segregation, you mean. Well if he did that was decades ago and times and people change.
Biden served under a half-black president and now has a half-black vice president. Does that sound racist to you?
It’s a gov’t plot to control you. Don’t buy the propaganda – get out there and drive around, play in the snow, don’t let them CONTROL you.
I didn’t see Ken post his Vaxx Card™️, Rapid ‘Rona™️ test, PCR test or anal swab test before daring to leave the confines of his home.
Why does he want to kill people?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Cute little Covidiot, playing with his little straw man doll.
What does Joel Tudor think? Can we get a rematch between Tudor and Skinny?
Reading a Ben Marcus article is like buying a copy of the Big Issue … it’s my one act of charity for the day