California
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T. A. Gardner
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Okay, so a sex clown endorses a politician. And? It is California after all...
T. A. Gardner
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Saying California's state budget is a dumpster fire is an insult to dumpster fires.
It used to be an economic powerhouse before Democrats ruined it, and parts of it are beautiful.
T. A. Gardner
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So were Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey... Elect Democrats and you get ass raped economically.
T. A. Gardner
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Speaking of DoW insanity forced on it by California...
One of the work orders I did while in the Navy was production of several hundred Shore Power Cable Cradles. These are an 13 x 5 foot aluminum frame-- essentially a pallet. They have a 3-foot high railing around the perimeter of them. They are decked with low grade oak like you use in some pallet manufacturing. The whole thing was made from 6061 and 5052 H32 aluminum and all-welded construction.
What they were made for is to house what amounts to giant extension cords (shore power cables) that you plug a ship in to the pier when in port so it doesn't have to run its engines for electrical power. One cradle would hold the cables for any but the largest ships in the fleet. Each cradle cost (and this was like 25 years ago now) $3000 to manufacture in materials.
Why did these get made? Because California didn't want these cables to be drug on the ground, preferably at all, because small bits of rubber might rub off and then get washed into watersheds or a bay or into the ocean. Now, on the same base where you might have say 20 ships tied up using one or two of these cradle's worth of cables, you also had these things by the hundreds called cars that run on rubber tires...
I was given a $500,000 OPTAR to make them. I had a parking lot full of those things waiting to ship several times.
Here's a photo of two of these from above:
