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@TheDegenWeekly Hey Jeff, I live in the “Kansas “ part of CA. I think you have a fair analysis of NorCal and what it has to offer. I’m glad you appeared to have good experiences with our residents. CA people tend to embrace the fact we are a tourist destination and are proud of it.

I spent a week in Northern California. Here's my review: 1. San Francisco (2 Days) This was my first time visiting SF as an adult. I'd been when I was 10 years old but that doesn't count (although Alcatraz was pretty sick). I had my expectations low, which is key to any first time experience, but can also be tricky. For example: the first time I saw Hot Tub Time Machine, I thought it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen. Had no expectations. Took my wife to see it after hyping it up, and she did not think it was the funniest movie she'd ever seen. I set her expectations too high. I thought SF was cool. Could I live there? Eh. I'm not sure I could ever get used to those hills, but they are super unique to any other American city. Being right on the Bay is pretty badass. The people were friendly and the service was good. I prefer the SF vibe over the LA vibe. Less pretentious and “douchey” for lack of a better word. Also much cleaner than I expected. Someone told me they got a new mayor who's done a good job, or maybe there was a big push during SB. Either way, not the zombie apocalypse you might think from watching the news. My first Waymo ride was fun. Kinda creepy how all the billboards in SF are about AI. Def think it will be the first city where robots outnumber humans when the time comes. 2. Yosemite (3 days) My wife and I love the outdoors but we aren't necessarily outdoors people, if that makes sense. The only way you can get me to camp in the wilderness is with something they call "Glamping" and that's what we did. Highly recommend Under Canvas which just opened their Yosemite location. These tents were awesome, and the food was fucking fantastic. We checked out El Capitan, Tunnel View, some Sequoia trees, hiked the Vista Trail and Hetch Hetchy. Not super touristy which was great. I've heard Yellowstone gets absurdly packed. Could have been the time of year as it was a little cold. This was our second National Park visit and I thought it was perfect for beginners like us. 3. Napa (3 days) This place is gorgeous. I was blown away at how nice of a drive it was (3.5 hours) from Yosemite to Napa. You'd be in flat farmlands that felt like the middle of Kansas, then an hour later be surrounded by mountains and vineyards. Someone told us California is responsible for making 70% of the country's produce. I now believe that. I'm not the biggest wine guy but I like wine. Drank it a lot more before I started getting bad acid reflux. I don't think you need more than 2 days in Napa if you're just a casual wine drinker. The experience overall was great though. Enjoyed the tastings and scenery at every stop. There's only so much red wine I can drink during the day before I need a nap. The town could use an emergency cocktail bar nearby serving Whiskey Cokes and cigarettes to keep you going. Oh and you didn't ask but my favorite winery was Alpha Omega. We bought a few bottles there because they don't sell anywhere else. Pretty cool. Overall I'm left coming away with this impression: Northern California fucking rocks. I can't believe I was not familiar with its game. The people are chill. The scenery is stunning. The weather is lovely. As an East Coast guy who's made multiple drives from NYC to Florida and back, I am beyond envious that the other side of the country is so much more beautiful. They don't have any rest stops though, which is tough for a guy like me that has to piss every 20 minutes. So for that I would like to say THANK YOU New Jersey! I'm not the type to make a lot of life goals (not a good thing) but I think ending up in Northern California after your kids go to college and living out your remaining years there is absolutely the dream scenario. I doubt most of you read this but if you did, please let me know if you have any recs for my next visit. Cheers.

@the_jefferymead @mtgreenee Why allow the left leaning media to spin “we really don’t know their motivations” when there is no investigative value in keeping it secret. I’m glad they released it to make it abundantly clear the information this loon was hearing that motivated his actions.

@mtgreenee Are you complaining about them getting information and being transparent with the public quickly?.. What’s the point of your post? Weren’t you saying stuff like this before….

Why does every shooter have a manifesto? Most shooter’s manifestos remain classified so they don’t inspire more would be shooter’s. Why did they release Cole Allen’s manifesto almost immediately?

@the_jefferymead Not delusional. An outright falsehood. Said with the same virtue signaling elitism they wear like a blanket.

This is absolutely delusional. Democrats would absolutely NOT confirm Trumps pick. This take from her is truly delusional on multiple different levels. This is an example of how unaware many on the left are.

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@FoxNews 🤣. Oh my, he said that with a straight face.

BREAKING: "While health care fraud might be President Trump's shiny new political talking point, California DOJ has been going after health care fraud since 1979. For decades." "Trump is late to the party." - Rob Bonta, California Attorney General

@Venuseswilliams @shondarhimes I believe it was Jimmy Hoffa who said, “the most powerful tool in negotiations is the ability to walk away from the table.” Shonda Rhimes nails it.

Women negotiating deals, take this advice from @shondarhimes: Never enter a negotiation you’re not willing to walk away from. Knowing your worth and your boundaries is where real leverage begins. 🤍

🚨 Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof. @VDHanson. In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going - Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving. Hanson’s Key Points: • Europeans: They never touch a conflict until they smell victory. Early on? Crickets. Now they’re quietly moving assets and offering support. Pure calculation — they’ve read the battlefield and decided which side wins. • Gulf petro-states: Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris survive by reading the room perfectly. They’re expelling Iranian attachés, silently intercepting Iranian missiles over their capitals, and the UAE just reaffirmed its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the U.S. mid-war. These are not gestures — they’re bets. And they’re all-in on America. • Al Jazeera: The Qatari state network that usually bashes U.S. actions (and hosts Hamas offices) is now calling America’s bombing campaign “brilliant” and “underestimated.” When the outlet that hosts both the biggest U.S. air base and Hamas praises U.S. effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: they think we’re winning. • Military reality: A-10 Warthogs and Apache gunships are now flying strike missions inside Iranian airspace at will. These slow, low-flying platforms only appear when enemy air defenses are effectively gone. Confirms what’s really happening on the ground. Iran’s only play left is rope-a-dope: drag it out, hope U.S. public opinion flips, pray midterms pressure Trump to quit. VDH’s verdict: If Trump sees it through — and he will — the regime falls. Not in years. Pretty soon. Bottom line: Watch what people do, not what they say. Every player with skin in the game is betting on America. The signals don’t lie. #Iran #Europe #Warthogs #Trump @AlJazeera

Such hypocrisy

@sircalebhammer @DrunkRepub This is nothing compared to our multi-billion dollar high speed rail to nowhere.

Bro, this state can’t be real

@joeroganhq Spot on. These leftists say “trust the science” until you show them their Covid savior was a lying opportunist. Then they champion government inefficiency like it is god given right.

Adam Carolla: "The 2 biggest tells from the ret*rds on the left is Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk. That's how I know you guys are lying and you have Trump Derangement Syndrome and we never have to f*cking listen to you ever again."

@elonmusk I hope the California fraud exposed eliminates the whole “racist/bigoted” narrative. Fraudsters are of all ilks. The morally corrupt come in all pigmentations.

Wow

@sagesteele @NYCMayor Agreed. The mayor would have probably preferred to have a mental health professional onsite to chat with these teenagers and find out how their parents had failed them.

Example # 86462728 why we shouldn’t defund the police as @NYCMayor suggested. What a wonderful representative of NYPD. BACK THE BLUE.

@bungarsargon I differ somewhat on your take. For the actual radical islamists their hate of the Jews has not changed with our cultural transformations. Sadly, the rise in antisemitism has created a group of people who now justify terrorism. Sad.

We're not just fighting terrorists. We're fighting those who cannot understand the danger posed by opening your door to people who hate you. People who refuse to accept the danger posed by a fraying national fabric, who fail to recognize what makes us unique, cohesive, and great. It’s not our “diversity.” It’s the instinct that made young cadets band together to take down Mohammed Jalloh with just a knife. It’s the instinct that allowed security guards at a synagogue kill Ayman Ghazaleh before those precious babies were hurt. It’s the instinct that made 30 police officers end up at the hospital being treated for smoke inhalation for storming the synagogue inferno to make sure the danger had subsided. It’s what made Lt. Col. Brandon Shah deploy to defend his country again and again and again—while that country was importing and naturalizing the enemy who killed him, in the ultimate betrayal. batyaus.substack.com/p/the-synagogu…

@natebargatze @nytimes Here I was thinking they were looking for new ways to get the letter Z in a crossword puzzle 😂

I told the girls they could get anything they wanted at the Nike store if they got one crossword answer right…Harper got two words before she found her own last name. Thanks for including me @nytimes!

Incredible investigation today from @CBSNews. Our reporters visited "ground zero" for hospice fraud: Los Angeles, California. One building had 89 registered hospices . . . Read it here: cbsnews.com/projects/2026/…

@ByronDonalds Which is better: Waltz is corrupt and colluded with fraudsters for political gain or Waltz is woefully ignorant and inept at the job he was elected to perform. It has to be one or the other.

Tim Walz was aware of the fraud. His Chief of Staff was aware of the fraud. And they did nothing to stop it. The only logical conclusion we can draw here is this: Tim Walz colluded with these criminals to let fraud continue, so he could secure Minnesota's key Somali voting bloc.

@GiantHotTakes In spring ball? Has Baggs become a complete idiot?

Andrew Baggarly’s headline tonight “Has first year manager (with no professional experience) Tony Vitello lost the clubhouse after back to back losses”

@Heer_khan3 Bravo!

@GiantHotTakes Bay Area media have no idea how to deal with a grown a$$ man who holds them accountable to their misinformation. They want to parsec his words to fit their own narrative. I still say the internal leaker was being put on notice.

I love how Tony V is just stunned that this is such a big deal. Cracks me up. Not a big deal at all😂

@KNBR @knbrmurph @MarkusBoucher Somebody in the organization leaked this to the media. That is the kind of disloyalty that has no place in the organization. Addressing it like this puts that individual on notice. Be loyal to the organization, not to journalists.

"The fact that we're even having to ask these questions is a bad look. I say this with love for Tony V, I like his personality... It's The Show now. It's The Show. We're kind of done with feelings." (via @knbrmurph & @MarkusBoucher)