http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/07/05/california-may-have-stumbled-upon-a-new-strategy-to-prevent-people-from-leaving-the-state-photo/
California Democrats have been telling their own constituents — and the whole country, really — that things are not ackshually as bad as they may seem.
Stores closing because of rampant shoplifting? Nothing to worry about. Just shop someplace else (or give shoplifting a go). Widespread homelessness? Hey, at least they’re unlikely to freeze to death.
Skyrocketing gas prices? Well, obviously that gasoline must be the best gasoline in the whole country:
Billy Binion ~ Things are going well in California ...

StanleyFosha ~ California implements new strategy to prevent people from leaving the state.
Can’t leave if you can’t afford to gas up your car!

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence