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The most important thing to take out of this:
He knows it’s bad for his inevitable presidential run he’s been focusing on, but he has to do what his wealthy donors want so they keep donating.
If he manages a first term, he’ll still do shit like this, because he needs his donors for term 2.
We need a legit grass roots candidate, because when they keep their donors happy, that’s doing what’s good for average Americans.
If we keep worrying about keeping political donors happy, we’ll never reform anything; that’s the exact opposite of what they want and will do everything to stop it.
Once he gets in office it’ll be, “we need something to campaign on next election” every time reform comes up. On his final term, he’ll say, “if the party is going to earn votes for my successor, I need to play ball this term,” then the cycle will repeat itself.
The lesson here is:
Stop electing neoliberals like Newsom
whats the point of whoring for campaign money if that whoring costs you the support of the voters?
Billionaire math
Average USA billionaire has about $7b in wealth.
2026 * 365 = 739,490
$7,000,000,000 / 739,490 = $9,465.98
You would need to make $9k per day, for 2026 years, to catch up to the average billionaire wealth right now.
It’s estimated in 2026 that it would cost $37b to end world hunger until 2030.
Also note that Musk, Bezos, and other extreme billionaires are up to 100x of the average here ($700b for Musk). Who is making $900k per day?
This is not natural, it’s not rational, and it’s completely bullshit. You can come up with whatever distraction you want (“wealth & income aren’t the same”), but we should be taxing every dollar above $1b at 99% or higher.
30 years * 365 day = 10,950
$1,000,000,000 / 10,950 = $91,324.20
I could easily live off of $91k per DAY for 30 YEARS.
If you put these numbers against a human time scale we can understand, I don’t see the argument for this level of wealth, especially not as people go hungry, without clothes or food, and children die.
He also vetoed a bill that would have kept private equity out of primary care so keeping a primary care physician has been a nightmare in California ever since. He gave PG&E a pass for murdering over 800 people in paradise because they were neglecting maintenance for shareholder profits. PG&E hiked our rates 6 times this year with his cronies approval and they made record profits. He’s slimy and part of the problem. Don’t ever forget that these evil Nazi tech bros came out of California and were enabled by him in his political career every step of the way.
We must always vote for the progressives in local elections to prevent the Newsoms of the world from climbing the ladder
As is already well known for most, USA only has 2 right wing parties, Democrats that are “normal” right wing. and Republicans that are extreme right wing, and has gone more and more insane over the past few decades.
There can be no doubt among normal reasonable people, that the wealth of the richest people in USA is insane now, and needs to be reigned in.
Of course an annual federal tax to achieve this would be preferable, but since that obviously isn’t happening anytime soon, it is up to the states. No one needs to have $1 billion, no one even needs a tenth of that.
The rich are so sociopathic they believe they are entitled to this, and then they call people working 2 jobs entitled for wanting a living wage and healthcare!It’s disgusting that this has become normalized, it is not normal! It is sociopathic, and only a sociopathic society would allow this, and at the same time have extreme poverty. This is not about making an efficient economy, it’s 100% about the sick entitlement of the rich.
Oh, he’s still not the preordained nominee yet? Still has to prove to the party who his owners are?
If it doesn’t turn out that man was made in Madame Tussaud’s famous workshop, I will eat my hat.
I have an alternative theory:
finally an issue the centrists can muster the energy to fight about.
THIS MAN IS THE FRONT-RUNNER FOR THE DNC 2028 PRESIDENTIAL
THIS MAN IS THE FRONT-RUNNER FOR THE DNC 2028 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
AGAIN, THIS MAN IS THE FRONT-RUNNER FOR THE DNC 2028 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
BOYCOTTING THE DNC DIDN’T MOVE THE PARTY LEFT IN 2016
BOYCOTTING THE DNC DIDN’T MOVE THE PARTY LEFT IN 2020
BOYCOTTING THE DNC DIDN’T MOVE THE PARTY LEFT IN 2024
BOYCOTTING THE DNC IN THE GENERAL ELECTION HAS ONLY MOVED THR OVERTON WINDOW FURTHER RIGHT AND GIVEN POWER TO FASCISTS.
IF YOU ASSHOLES SPENT HALF THE ENERGY BACKING PROGRESSIVES IN THE PRIMARIES THAT YOU DID BOYCOTTING THE DNC IN NOVEMBER, WE WOULDNT HAVE EVER BEEN IN THIS MESS.
The controlled opposition party won’t meaningfully reform the corporatism that got us in this mess? No fucking shit.
If/when Gavin Newsom is the candidate, I’ll vote for someone else, or won’t vote.
Under normal circumstances, sure. If it’s Gavin vs. Trump then I assume you’ll vote for Gavin. Step 1 is get rid of Trump, step 2 is find a candidate that’s actually good. If we can do both simultaneously then that would be wonderful.
Voting blue-no-matter-who has given us a parade of Democrats who stand for nothing, do nothing, and eagerly cooperate with fascism. I’m too old to waste another vote on such a charade.
I guess Don Jr. 2028 then.
I hope you are running for office if you are looking for the perfect candidate
