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Lots of words but still none the wiser where the anti-trans is or the Silicon Valley CEOs are Trump loving.
 
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Lots of words but still none the wiser where the anti-trans is or the Silicon Valley CEOs are Trump loving.
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Lots of words? Not sure if that’s an epic sentence fragment or just lots of random words.
 
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Politesse said:
Starbucks is abandoning SF. Local cafes are happy to move in.
Local cafes from Andytown to Sana'a Cafe are taking over downtown SF

A nice little story about what actually happens when businesses "flee California in droves"; generally speaking, they are replaced by superior local businesses who understand the market better than national franchises because they live here and know what their customers actually want. You know, like how capitalist free markets are supposed to work. I'd love to see an SF downtown with no national mega-box stores at all some day. Why do we need to give up city block after city block to lazy, dated, and increasingly unprofitable chains like Nordstrom's or McDonald's, when we could have that space freed up for our own, better, stores, that are more interesting for consumers and whose profits are more likely to remain in the state economy?

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Crabbe isn’t the only local cafe owner who was excited to have the opportunity to lease a space that was occupied by Starbucks for years. Yemeni coffee chain Sana’a Cafe is taking over three former Starbucks in downtown SF, and Spro Coffee Lab opened a new cafe in an ex-Starbucks at 201 Spear St. earlier this month, as the San Francisco Business Times reported it planned to do. Ritual Coffee is planning to open a new cafe in October at a former location of the chain at 295 California St., and Compton’s Coffee House is set to take over another Starbucks at 359 Grant Ave.

“We’re seeing an opportunity for small businesses for the first time in a long time to move into these spaces that are in marquee locations,” said Aidan Compton, the owner of Compton’s Coffee House, which also has locations in the Fillmore and North Beach.
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Starbucks is not very well liked by lefties due to their anti labor policies. And San Francisco is packed with lefties.
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I have to start off saying this: I dislike coffee. So Starbucks was never a ‘thing’ for me. Still, once I found myself hungry with no chance for a while to grab any real food so I grabbed a muffin at Starbucks.

I have no idea how they stay in business.

My small town does have a number of chains and another one just opened up. Plenty of people gravitate towards those places but we don’t. When we eat out, we go to local places which are not chains and where the food tastes like food, not advertising wrapped sugar salt and fat.

Our favorite town to visit when we are on our annual lake vacation is a small town that has only one chain restaurant in town : A Dairy Queen. We’ve never been to that DQ, preferring to indulge in locally made foods, including fresh caught fish and local beers. Oh, and we grab dessert at the best candy store on earth in the way up.
 
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Looks like we're getting sued again!

GOP sues California over ballot language that accurately describes voter ID measure

The Republican plaintiffs, led by California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R), said that California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) changed a key line of the language to say that the proposed measure “prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”

The suit alleges that the new language is inaccurate because the measure wouldn’t stop Californians from voting, just from having their vote counted.
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If their argument holds water, are they lying to the public every time they claim that the bill will, in fact, prevent illegals from voting?
 
California's High-Speed Rail Authority repeatedly missed key deadlines to buy its trains, a failure federal officials cited when they pulled $4 billion in funding a year ago. More than a year and a half after the original deadline, the authority still cannot say when it expects to award the contract. The state says that the date remains "TBD." Gov. Gavin Newsom called the federal withdrawal of funding a "political stunt to punish California," and state Attorney General Rob Bonta promptly sued "to stop Trump's politically motivated attack on high-speed rail." Yet, less than six months later, California dropped the lawsuit. The rail authority offered no explanation, but said it hoped to work with the federal government some time in the future after deciding this administration "was not a reliable partner." However, a CBS California investigation found it was the California High-Speed Rail Authority that repeatedly failed to meet its own deadlines to buy the trains — a key requirement in the federal grant agreement — then quietly dropped its lawsuit weeks after missing the new deadline it promised a federal judge it would meet.
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Newsom should definitely run for president :hysterical:
 
TSwizzle said:
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Newsom should definitely run for president :hysterical:
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What does he have to do with it? Aside from being correct that the whole thing is a stunt to attack the state and waste our tax dollars, something you usually claim to oppose when it isn't your orange god doing it?
 
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So, Swiz. What US states do you actually like? Which states do you feel are run well, and what do you like about them?
 
Politesse said:
So, Swiz. What US states do you actually like? Which states do you feel are run well, and what do you like about them?
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Can anyone guess Swiz’s fav?
I think TEXAS.
They have a venerable tradition since the 1820s, of holding the line against conferring rights to non-whites. Last to get rid of slavery, first to honor the heroism of whites fighting to preserve their supremacy … what more could a Trump loving immigrant want?
 
Elixir said:
Can anyone guess Swiz’s fav?
I think TEXAS.
They have a venerable tradition since the 1820s, of holding the line against conferring rights to non-whites. Last to get rid of slavery, first to honor the heroism of whites fighting to preserve their supremacy … what more could a Trump loving immigrant want?
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The Texas Rangers used to hang Mexicans. A lot of Mexicans.

 
These unelected busybodies have decided what tires you can put on your vehicle.

California regulators on Monday approved new rules that will restrict what tires you can buy when it's time to replace them on your car. In a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission voted to adopt new rules that will phase out the sale of replacement tires that don't meet certain energy efficiency standards.
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These unelected busybodies have decided what tires you can put on your vehicle.

California regulators on Monday approved new rules that will restrict what tires you can buy when it's time to replace them on your car. In a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission voted to adopt new rules that will phase out the sale of replacement tires that don't meet certain energy efficiency standards.
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Looking at their list of exceptions, what's left? What's getting restricted?

I would think by and large we are talking about brodozers rolling M/T or aggressive A/T tires on the street or tuner cars with soft compound racing tires. Both of which suck on wet roads.

Or are you now advocating for tuner cars doing donuts in the intersections?
 
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TSwizzle said:
These unelected busybodies have decided what tires you can put on your vehicle.

California regulators on Monday approved new rules that will restrict what tires you can buy when it's time to replace them on your car. In a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission voted to adopt new rules that will phase out the sale of replacement tires that don't meet certain energy efficiency standards.
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Looking at their list of exceptions, what's left? What's getting restricted?

I would think by and large we are talking about brodozers rolling M/T or aggressive A/T tires on the street or tuner cars with soft compound racing tires. Both of which suck on wet roads.

Or are you now advocating for tuner cars doing donuts in the intersections?
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In Northern states and Alaska there are laws about studded tires. Is that state overreach?
 
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