Years ago I framed houses in socal. One Cinco de mayo i was drinking tequila with an all Mexican crew,and made the statement that it was a shame that the Mexicans got ripped off for Cali. They all told me I was full of shit, that if it was still under Mexico rule it would be a shithole just like Mexico. Opened my eyes!
Thanks for the clarity. Once more, we see shiftless, useless asshats who want to take from productive people, while being too stupid to understand that productive people will stop producing. The problem with socialism is you run out of other people's money.
This article gives credence to the years long description of California as the “Land of Fruits and Nuts.” A few friends now live there and have become acclimated to the situation with a “When in Rome…” attitude as family and employment dictates their presence. Never been there and no intention of doing so. Having been to 43 of the lower 48, I will get to North Dakota and Iowa and leave the West Coast to the coo-coo birds and Hollywood wanna-bes.
I’m currently actually reading “Two Years Before the Mast” by Dena and it’s a great look at old Mexico now part of the USA. Spain stole it from indigenous Indians and disease claimed the rest. California no more belongs to Mexico than it does to Spain. It really belonged to those Native American Indians who now of course are gone. This is a very informative look at sailing in the mid 19th century. It was a very beautiful and tough world to live in.
If the US “returned” California (Californication) to its “indigenous peoples,” it wouldn’t take two generations before they would run it into the ground and the US would have to rescue it.
The schools in Mexico teach their students that “Atzlan” belongs to Mexico, that the treaty that sold it to the U.S. was illegal, and that, yes, somehow the territorial ancestry was miraculously Aztec. The non-sensical aspects of this assumed lineage is completely overlooked.
They're quite confused. They were killing off the Apache, whose land it was before and they still exist as a people group. Does the Aztec still exist as a people group?
California is amazing. A 400 mile by 50 mile stretch of land more of less invented the modern world. Modern medicine, TV, electronics, computers, the internet, movies. The cauldron of creativity that for better or worse has shaped the world.
It's so absurd that people think that Aztecs lived in Alta California. Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, is over 1,800 miles. They certainly weren't interested in traveling that far away from their highly developed city state. The Aztecs were virtually wiped out after Cortez, either by warfare or disease, which weakened the Aztec military to the point that they couldn't defend themselves. No one was particularly interested in California, which is why our indigenous population just never developed past basket weaving and foraging. It sounds harsh, but they were in no way the equivalent of the Iroquois Confederation, the Cherokee, or the Plains tribes. They were meant to inherit the mission lands, as Serra wanted, and that's why the Franciscans taught them how to raise cattle, grow crops, make soap and candles, to make wine (Catholic staple!) and tan hide for leather goods. The Mexican Revolution took all that away. The mission lands were stolen BY MEXICO, and the indigenous people were reduced to virtual slaves. The pleasant fiction of Aztecs in Los Angeles is pure fantasy.
All over Spanish America is the mark of the Second Sons of Spain. Trained as soldiers, they took and held their share of two continents, plundering and sending back all they understood to be valuable; and, utterly clueless about governance, lived well on the fat of the land and ignoring its population. Ripe for the ruination by the demons of Marx, Lenin and Mao, it is always a threat to lands governed in the tradition of the Magna Carta.
Hilarious and educational. ".or, as we say in English, faux pas." A day without a Cashill article is like a day without sunshine.
Big takeaway for me: they lost, and they’re still upset about it.
True Leftists never give up.
As Solzhenitsyn observed and tried to tell us through Gulag Archipelago.
Years ago I framed houses in socal. One Cinco de mayo i was drinking tequila with an all Mexican crew,and made the statement that it was a shame that the Mexicans got ripped off for Cali. They all told me I was full of shit, that if it was still under Mexico rule it would be a shithole just like Mexico. Opened my eyes!
Thanks for the clarity. Once more, we see shiftless, useless asshats who want to take from productive people, while being too stupid to understand that productive people will stop producing. The problem with socialism is you run out of other people's money.
This article gives credence to the years long description of California as the “Land of Fruits and Nuts.” A few friends now live there and have become acclimated to the situation with a “When in Rome…” attitude as family and employment dictates their presence. Never been there and no intention of doing so. Having been to 43 of the lower 48, I will get to North Dakota and Iowa and leave the West Coast to the coo-coo birds and Hollywood wanna-bes.
Thankyou Jack the mexicant forgets the brutality of their conquistador kin
I’m currently actually reading “Two Years Before the Mast” by Dena and it’s a great look at old Mexico now part of the USA. Spain stole it from indigenous Indians and disease claimed the rest. California no more belongs to Mexico than it does to Spain. It really belonged to those Native American Indians who now of course are gone. This is a very informative look at sailing in the mid 19th century. It was a very beautiful and tough world to live in.
Agreed. Excellent book/
The indigenous people are still here; now they run monstrous casinos in the desert.
Agreed. I’m hoping they’ll fleece the white men…dry to the bone. Payback’s a bitch !
Karma gonna get you in the end
If the US “returned” California (Californication) to its “indigenous peoples,” it wouldn’t take two generations before they would run it into the ground and the US would have to rescue it.
Elite thinking always involved/involves a feudal society. As you’ve noted, the elites would never demean themselves with a moral work ethic.
The schools in Mexico teach their students that “Atzlan” belongs to Mexico, that the treaty that sold it to the U.S. was illegal, and that, yes, somehow the territorial ancestry was miraculously Aztec. The non-sensical aspects of this assumed lineage is completely overlooked.
They're quite confused. They were killing off the Apache, whose land it was before and they still exist as a people group. Does the Aztec still exist as a people group?
California is amazing. A 400 mile by 50 mile stretch of land more of less invented the modern world. Modern medicine, TV, electronics, computers, the internet, movies. The cauldron of creativity that for better or worse has shaped the world.
And amazing how it has fallen so quickly.
400 x 50 miles along the coast, from San Francisco to San Diego.
And still remain the USA. 🦅🇺🇸💎
It's so absurd that people think that Aztecs lived in Alta California. Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, is over 1,800 miles. They certainly weren't interested in traveling that far away from their highly developed city state. The Aztecs were virtually wiped out after Cortez, either by warfare or disease, which weakened the Aztec military to the point that they couldn't defend themselves. No one was particularly interested in California, which is why our indigenous population just never developed past basket weaving and foraging. It sounds harsh, but they were in no way the equivalent of the Iroquois Confederation, the Cherokee, or the Plains tribes. They were meant to inherit the mission lands, as Serra wanted, and that's why the Franciscans taught them how to raise cattle, grow crops, make soap and candles, to make wine (Catholic staple!) and tan hide for leather goods. The Mexican Revolution took all that away. The mission lands were stolen BY MEXICO, and the indigenous people were reduced to virtual slaves. The pleasant fiction of Aztecs in Los Angeles is pure fantasy.
“Recently forced the removal of a cross on private property?” Where? How?
All over Spanish America is the mark of the Second Sons of Spain. Trained as soldiers, they took and held their share of two continents, plundering and sending back all they understood to be valuable; and, utterly clueless about governance, lived well on the fat of the land and ignoring its population. Ripe for the ruination by the demons of Marx, Lenin and Mao, it is always a threat to lands governed in the tradition of the Magna Carta.
That was 40 yrs ago, now it is the shithole anyway