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EricStoner's avatar

Rolling out the old "Potemkin" village ruse, are they? LOL.

For those in Yorba Linda, look it up.

c Anderson's avatar

I think you may mean Rio Linda, but you might be right since Yorba Linda is inhabited by southern CA ritzy, Woke university graduates and Rio Linda is blue collar and farmers with missing teeth, but more common sense than any democrat.

JasonT's avatar

The scheme doesn’t have to last forever; just through a few election cycles.

One may hope the Rs are smart enough to play this correctly.

Elizabeth Sexworth's avatar

It’s not looking good so far. Most of the criticism I’ve seen has lacked any nuance.

SgtJUSMC's avatar

Unfortunately Republicans and smart is an oxymoron. They always manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Current leadership is a prime example.

JasonT's avatar

The record is not encouraging.

SDN's avatar

"Demand, now, before the first store opens, an audited store-level profit and loss statement, "

How will you demand it? And no matter who the "auditor" is, the commies will get exactly the same "audit" they get in "peer-review" for climate science, because no one who will give an honest review is allowed anywhere near it.

GeoStrat Agency LLC, U.S. 🇺🇸's avatar

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Our two hostile enemies are one, Marxists with Islam equals:

M A R X I S M, period

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Marxism is the umbrella and needs to be called out, labeled and stopped by all possible legal means there are.

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Laziness is punishable by our Lord, read our ❤️ bible, because the freaking book from the desert invented 600 years later as a copy cat, calls for our extinction.

In 2026 the entire leftist political movement is working for the CCP and the Islamist donors from the near east and getting additional via via via heinously camouflaged as humanitarian NGOs that get all support from the unelected Marxist architecture of the EU commission.

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All Marxist and Islamists despots collapsed but they only imploded after they have killed and burned their own people they enslaved under their totalitarian toxicomane power hungry rule.

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Sea Sentry's avatar

Excellent article, Alexander. I’m sure The NY Times would have done a similar taxpayer focused analysis and come to the same conclusions, what with their 1930’s Pulitzer Prize winning expertise reporting on, er covering up Potemkin Villages in the USSR.

Thanks to your article, they can focus on the gushing multi-gender multi-cultural grocery customers singing Mamdani’s and Socialism’s praises rather than focusing on the unsavory cost particulars.

Same old story, but with a new generation of useful idiots.

Arturo A.'s avatar

Frankly, I'll be surprised if any of them open at all.

TJ Jackson's avatar

They will open and the taxpaayer will serve as the vampire's meal.

The Musings of the Big Red Car's avatar

Good analysis.

“30% below the average price”

Blair Martin's avatar

So the rich are going to pay for this. WHAT RICH, WHO, considering at this time, those rich are moving out at increasing rates, so it will be the lower level WORKERS who will be paying higher taxes, state tax, and property tax to foot this bill. Really? Dream on fool. Obviously you haven`t done a whole lot of research into the failings of socialism> Communism over the years, and your spin is PIE IN THE SKY.

Michael Woods's avatar

Yep. Probably just long enough to get him through his first term. After that, if reelected, it will begin to fail apart economically. Unfortunately, the local bodegas will be out of business by then.

Suzie's avatar

They will be “Potemkin grocery stores”, all shiny, bright and brimming.

But it’s all a facade designed to hide what lurks beneath them.

The problem is, even if you laid out in stark detail what a ruse it all is, and that taxpayers are the ones who are really footing the bill, too many people just won’t care. They feel entitled and they’ll want more just like them - screw the taxpayer.

Dindu Nuffin's avatar

When they start issuing the food rationing librettos then we’ll know it’s time to send in the Marines

Dindu Nuffin's avatar

When they start issuing librettos it’ll be time to send in the national guard

the long warred's avatar

He got elected = IT WORKED

Susan Daniels's avatar

Until it doesn’t.

Pete Howard's avatar

Yes, you are correct. The accounting of these stores will be a fraud, much like the wind and solar subsidies have made them "economical investments" over the last 3 decades. Take away the gubmint subsidies, and they are money losers, much like these gubmint grocery stores will be.

TJ Jackson's avatar

A law should be passed making the consequences for such proposals to fall directly on those who are responsible for creating such entities. They should be held accountable for their failures financially totally. If they cannot pay, they and they're families will be held in prison at the rate of 100k per year till the debt is paid. Such communist schemes must not be tolerated. Let these commissars learn what the consequnces of failure are.