Not sure about always, but for awhile now, yes.
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I am so embarrassed for being a former OC resident.
The most patriotic thing to do right now is to wear a mask.
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Havenât you heard? Give em liberty or give em death! I wonder if any of them wear a seatbelt?
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They are comedians who are in character, kinda like the original Colbert! They were on Take Two last week after the video took off⌠They did pretty good! Starts at 44:10
Poke lovers unite!
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It actually used to be worse. Thankfully, due to the influx of immigrants since the 80s, OC is a slightly more tolerant place than it used to be.
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I think youâre right. Very different neighborhoods when you drive down the 1 or 405 from Huntington down to San Clemente vs driving the 22/55/91/5 in central/north OC like Santa Ana, Anaheim, Buena Park, Garden Grove and Fullerton.
The difference is Brad Johnson best of OC lists mostly comprised with restaurants in Laguna, Newport, CDM and Dana Point. Vs the real best of list mostly from the other OC.
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Itâs where the birther movement startedâŚ
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Walter Knott, of berry-farm fame, sponsored the five-day âChristian Anti-Communist Schoolâ to help Orange County see the world that he saw, one where big government and liberalism led to Soviet domination. The message stuck. Within the decade, Orange County would have 38 chapters of the conspiracy-minded, ultra-right-wing John Birch Society, which called Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower a âcommunist tool.â Knott and actor John Wayne were members, as was the countyâs congressman. The rightward mobilization during the suburban explosion of the 1960s gave Orange County a national reputation for hard-line conservatism with a crackpot edge â ânut country,â in the words of Fortune magazine.
Ha! I had no idea. Thatâs amazing.
âOrly Taitz is a Moldovan-American political conspiracy theorist. A dentist, lawyer, and former real estate agent, Taitz was aâŚâ 
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We used to watch him for the entertainment factor of fringe crackpot. Never would have imagined how the world would turn out today. He was so out there, his daughter the lovely Rebecca De Mornay cut off all ties from him.
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Lol! Yes. As a budding Tom Bradley supporting middle schooler. I would watch as a perverse sort of entertainment.
And his daughter was Rebecca De Mornay ( named after the cheese sauce?) if i recall correctly
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Haha I remember watching this as a young kid staying up late watching Saturday Night Live, Wally George, Girls Gone Wild infomercials LoL, Howard Stern Show, Tales from the Crypt, Boxeo Telemundo, Poor Mans Bikini Beach, music cd informercials, Saturday Nights was great TV
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How about a little 80âs punk to round it up? Black Flag, TV Party
TV Party tonight! TV Party tonight!
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I just remember his perpetual (and only?) sponsor: Cal Worthington and his dog Spot.
⌠and while weâre on the olâ skool TV kick, how âbout chilling out to âNight Flightâ on the USA Network? So frickinâ 80s.
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So much love for my 'hood! Yâall stereotype much? I get the generalizations, but most who live outside the county are only seeing the worst. There is definitely that element here. Main St HB has been a train wreck for years, so itâs no surprise that itâs the current vortex of ignorance and the what-about-me crowd. We avoid it in favor of Pacific City if weâre hanging out in town. My experience with everyday things like shopping and even going out to eat have not at all been like this. This HB resident leaves the house as little as possible, and when he does, itâs with a mask, social distancing, and lots of hand sanitizer.
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To be fair I think HB gets more than its share of beach goers from riverside that may be more politically uhm libertarian
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I lived a large chunk of years in South OC, thatâs where I met my wife, got married in OC, started my career, etc. OC is also the first place where I encountered overt racism as an Asian guy dating a white woman and being subjected to comments about âmixing racesâ, etc.
OC has definitely gotten better, but it wasnât so long ago that open racism was tolerated in large swaths and IMO there are still big pockets where racism bubbles up easily with little pushback.
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Iâm truly sorry that you had to endure that experience. Nobody should have to. Admittedly, as a large white male, I have no clue what it must be like. My Mexican wife has experienced it growing up here. I can say that my experience growing up in the IE saw itâs fair share of redneck racist assholes (more than Iâve experienced in OC), and Iâm not arguing that overt racism doesnât exist, and probably more so in OC (especially HB), it just felt like the posts above were applying a pretty broad brush. My deepest apologies if I came off as insensitive.
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