Opinion of Katie Porter

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

HP

I respected her a lot during her pre-2023 House tenure as she struck me as someone who was rather fearless and there to actually try to get things done while holding Wall Street’s feet to the fire whenever possible, but I was also always a bit weary of her due to the unconfirmed rumors about how she treated her staff (which I continue to hope weren’t true for the staffers’ sakes).  However, she became a HP to me back in early-to-mid 2023 (I want to say it was March, but that feels too early) when she was singing Netanyahu’s praises and trying to paint him as some great champion of democracy.  Anyone who is such a bootlicker for Netanyahu’s regime is simply unfit for office.  I don’t know if she flip-flopped later, but that was unforgivable.  I switched my (admittedly irrelevant) support to Schiff over this.  He’s pro-Israel in the context of its war with Hamas, but he’s not a soulless Netanyahu apologist either.

Netanyahu is a corrupt wannabe dictator with no beliefs except in whatever he thinks will help him get more short-term power and has stacked his government with fascists and proud racists who are only not committing genocide against the Palestinians because they know they’d never come close to getting away with it.  Beyond which, the Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank remains a crime against humanity.  

The whole election rigging business is disgusting, dangerous, and pathetic.  The one good thing is it means Porter probably killed her career.  She’s proven herself dangerously unfit for office.  On a different note, while I don’t like Dave Min, I think the incomplete election results actually suggest voters may not care about his DUI nearly as much as had been assumed and Trump will hurt Baugh a lot here.  I actually think the race for her House seat is still Tilt D (closer to Lean D than Tilt R) as opposed to Lean D with Porter.