"I don’t trust him. I (saw) him on TV, chanting in these rallies. He’s (drunk) the poison of the Democrat party..."
California, as you most certainly know, is a state that leans left, politically. It has not had a republican governor since The Governator left office in 2011 and has not voted for a republican president since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Its major cities painted a medium-to-dark blue and yet there are some corners that kick against the democratic goads. Most of these are far inland, beyond the misty mountains, though not all. Huntington Beach, better known as Surf City, has been moving right for years and, today, has all seven of its councilmembers identifying as MAGA.
Huntington Beach has forbidden progressive books in its libraries, banned the flying of LGBTQIA+ flags from city property and stood up to Gavin Newsom and his meddling pinko ways.
Days ago, it was rewarded with a fabulous new gay progressive congressman of its own.
California voters, you see, recently passed Prop 50 which allows the state’s voting map to be furiously redrawn in order to benefit democrats and screw republicans. The gerrymander move was made, it was said, to counter goings on in Texas where that state’s voting map was furiously redrawn in order to benefit republicans and screw democrats.
Well, and again, it passed and Huntington Beach is now folded into Congressional District 42 led by Rep. Robert Garcia. The former Long Beach mayor, a gay progressive, is not worried about his new charges, declaring, “At the end of the day, I know I’m going to represent everyone. I think whether you’re a republican in Newport Beach or a Democrat in Seal Beach, at the end of day, people want you to focus on what’s going to make their lives better.”
Pat Burns, Huntington Beach’s MAGA mayor, is wary, though, countering, “I don’t trust him. I (saw) him on TV, chanting in these rallies. He’s (drunk) the poison of the Democrat party, and he’s all in for the big show, and not for what’s right.”
“Getting emotional,” according to the local NBC affiliate, he added, “We love America. We love this community, and we want to preserve it. It’s important.”
What do you think Rep. Garcia will do as his first order of business?
Will Huntington Beach mirror Bomont, Utah wherein a city boy with radical ideas moved with his mother and teaches the very conservative town the joys of dancing?
Kick off your Sunday shoes!
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gay porn targeting kids“progressive books”What is Lost in all of this Mayhem is the Republicans have their poster child for conservative gay men in Scott Bessent. He has a badass husband, children and is arguably the smartest and most adult like of anyone in DC. And yet he doesn’t throw his sexuality around like he throws punches at those in need of a wake up call.
Oh yeah, the 80’s!!!
I have lived in HB for over 45 years; this is boring new in a town where developers are mayors with their own agendas (Keith Bohr go one and Babs Delaguize) and do care about it’s residents but not as much as they care about their tourism! #hbforlife #hbtillidie
Do you know what the hardest thing about being gay is?
Xox
The internal bleeding?
Holy shit! Spicy!
Xox
Is that you again KK? I just hope the answer isn’t going to leave me feeling embarrassed for being a light brown, heterosexual male haha
Stop acting so privileged!
Xox
Haha sorry mate
Rollerblading?
Fuck I have come to love you.
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MAGA has turned into a puppet of isreal…
Always was
Exciting! Perhaps now everyone will be mandated the same number of set waves at the pier regardless of ability?! Merit-based wave count does seem kinda “evil capitalist” vibes
I wonder when Pat Burns will get busted for kiddie porn
when will the Epstein files be released?
Ghislaine is being pampered as she works on her clemency application
Has it not been fairly well established by now that gay Dems substantially exceed straight Repugs in their affinity towards pedophillia?
show us the epstein files and lets see…??
Yes!!
tend to agree
If Sasha is interested in being the star they know they are the US Open may be the big break they have been waiting for. World wide news coverage of the riot a mans bare tits ignited would be huge for their only fans following let alone the high pro longboard (or as I like to call it, “trans surfboarding”) community that is always in need of a few eyeballs.
Did you spot that you’d won a free subscription over at Stab.
Oops. Did you intend to disclose your dreams on an open chat board?
I feel like Huntington is pretty much surf adjacent regardless of it’s political leanings.
Dammit I don’t care about your sexual orientation or ideological preferences, I want to know what you are going to do to bring real surf to surf city.
Maybe a reef a couple hundred yards outside the pier with sand that gets pumped on to it from a pumping dredge way offshore, forming a low tide sand island with trailing sandbars, or a breakwater in front like Santa Monica filled in with enough sand in front to trail sandbars off it with sand pumped from in and around the pier to keep it deep and protected.
Anything like that would be a perfectly justifiable waste of taxpayer dollars and has my vote.
Same for Long Beach.
Fill in the pilings with concrete and boulders for refract madness on big days!
Using technology developed by Beef&Beer, I have drawn the ideal setup. Sand mound pumped from the end of the pier and from way outside, leaving enough sand inside for some sick refract peaks that come from the reforms of the pointlike trailing sandbars https://uploads.disquscdn.c… .
Costs about that of a presidential ballroom, offset from surf tourism.
Make surf city live up to its name.
Do you expect HB VALs to paddle out that far?
Absolutely not.
Outside for corelords, guarded by juvenile whites in the gutter.
HB VALS will have the inside shadow reform that moves around with the swell direction.
Hey Jack will you support the rope tow out device that HB is debating installing on the side of the pier so VALs dont have to paddle out?
Ziplines lifts from the end pier for 50 bucks.
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Robert Garcia is openly gay but a closeted republican.
So the opposite of most orange county men ?
Courtesy of AI…
Huntington Beach has not outright banned all “progressive” books but has restricted access to books with sexually explicit content from the children’s section.
So no Bibles?
Bibles are perfectly ok, but The Diary of Anne Frank, not so much.
SURFAI Magazine?