Please don’t let this guy be who ends up on the 2028 ticket.
Democrats just be opening the door for Republicans every election since 2016
And then they are surprised to be called controlled opposition.
AOC please. I don’t even agree with her on every single thing but she’s whip-smart and constantly pushing and principled
The DNC will pull every trick in the book to make sure it’s him and not a progressive… Then he’ll pick a right-wing running mate and liberals will claim any criticism is enabling whatever Nazi Vampire the GOP puts forward.
The only reason it could be him and not a progressive is if progressives split their votes while the corporate-backed party members defer their votes to him, which is pretty much what happened in 2020’s primary.
If the Democratic primary happens with most states using a form a Ranked Choice Voting for their party’s primary, then progressives have a better chance since the progressive candidates aren’t knocking each other out of the running.
2020 only had like a month or so when the progressives totaled more than 50% in polling.
The good news is in 2028 is I can’t really think of many viable progressives in the first place, and there are a ton of mediocre moderates who all think this is their time.
I think we’d better prepare a progressive front runner sooner rather than later. Otherwise we end up like California’s most recent governor primary where the most progressive candidates didn’t really step forward until the last minute, knocked each other out, and now California gets another Newsome-lite type candidate as the front runner against a Republican rather than up against a Progressive.
What happened is largely the fault of the voting system being a jungle primary instead of a more favorable system like a Ranked Robin version of ranked choice voting.
Dont worry, itll be Shapiro or Pritzker.
Fuck Newsom. Find me a Californian Mamdani dammit!!!
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
the problem is that American evangelicalism has tied money and goodness together with the prosperity gospel.
The more money you have, the more gooderer you are, and all you have to do is give all your money to (church/fund/whatever target) and god will give it back to you three-fold!
and there for, being against money by wanting to tax people means you are big evilsatanbad.
a guy who looks like a sleazy wall street exec, car salesman or television producer doesn’t want to tax rich people???
i never would have guessed!!!
at his best he still looks like an aging patrick bateman.
a big difference between 30+ years ago and now is that the lizards can’t hide their tails; clinton and bush looked like normal american men; this dude just walked out of the bourgeoisie salon and has likely memorized his stylist and publicists cell numbers but probably can’t remember the name of his sons/daughters.
Yeah, we know. We’ve seen this dog-and-pony show for DECADES.
Fuck newsom in general, but I could see a rational argument that the tax should be national to prevent billionaire Californias from moving to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
And if he’s president, he will say he can’t enact the tax because billionaires would flee the US.
We’ve had the same arguments in France. The economist who proposed the tax actually used data from the US to show that few rich people actually leave the place they’re in, because that’s where they live, meet people for business or pleasure, etc.
This could be evaluated for California too.
Mamdani proved unequivocally that they won’t actually move. Stop giving in to the bullshit billionaires are spouting to try to stop themselves being taxed.
Also, who fucking cares if they leave? Billionaires are a burden to the society and economy of any city or state they live in.
And yes, FUCK NEWSOM! Say it loud and say it proud. NO MORE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS!!!
He’s not arguing for that. He wants a national tax that both isn’t on the ballot and wouldn’t tax billionaires on their wealth.
it wouldn’t help a billionaire avoid california taxes. their income is too diversified.
Good point, let’s vote again in CA after it’s been enacted nationally.
He was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was Don, Jr.'s concubine for a long time. They’re all peas in the same pod. He’s a Manchurian MAGA.
And CA in large love this guy.
where do you get that? no one i know likes him. the conservatives hate him, the liberals hate him, the two other leftists i know hate him, like this could be a geographical oddity but it spans half the state (and one of the leftists is in LA but geographically we consider her an outlier. she likes it that way).
Then why do y’all keep voting for him?
you’re asking the wrong person dude. it’s either [Democrat vs. Republican, Democrat wins] in the general so the real election is which Democrat wins the primary, which fuck if I can explain I voted for Porter this time.
Oh nice, i also want porter but might might end up with a British billionaire so there is that 😂
yeah, in general elections we end up with someone 22% of the voting population actually wanted as governor/senator/whatever other had-to-call-a-statewide-election office, about 40-50% of us holding our nose and saying “well at least they’re not a republican” and the rest are republicans. At least that’s what it feels like to me.
like flip the parties and that’s what it was like living in Utah. it was weird. there used to be a lot of overlap between liberal-state conservatives and conservative-state liberals. not just the candidates, the people too. like, a lot of us/them believed in the same things and principles. not so much anymore
When I hear “Newsom”, I think “soulless minion of orthodoxy”.
and his insistence i wash my neck whenever i visit is really getting unsettling
Nothing about Newsom has seemed honest since day 1. He’s just another opportunistic politician.
His hairstyle is so cunty. And when I learned more about him I disliked him more.
5% tax on about 200 Californian billionaires who hold $2.2 trillion in wealth
5% of 2.2 trillion is $11 billion, right?
Jesus that would end poverty.
5% of 2.2 trillion is 0.11 trillion, or 110 billion.
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You mean this rich well connected individual isn’t going to burn their friends. You don’t say!
Windsock, toothless proposal. How can anyone trust this guy given how often he reverses his positions to chance headlines?
No way, really?
The guy who changed laws for his rich friends is against his rich friends having to pay comparatively insignificant sum that wont hurt their dragon hordes or its infinite growth in any significant fashion?
That man is the definition of afflueza, which I hear is only cured by Luigi fever or something idk all the weird media labels confuse me
