Proud to say that I have single-handedly impeded Newsom by pointing out that the primary is three years away, there are other candidates, and in a democratic process, we debate candidates 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
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Thank you for your service
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 10 0 • view
The POWER you wield!
sep 1, 2025, 10:32 am • 0 0 • view
Damn! You’re obsessed with Newsome. He’s doing what’s needed in this current time and the only w/ the guts to do it and rattle the sword back. Having a backbone and the 4th largest economy behind him. Showing the emperor has no clothes. Let’s talk about this after 2026. For now we need this
aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 5 1 • view
You better start pushing him to the left then! Get on it!
sep 1, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m focused on 2026! No 2026 no POTUS vote either way. Also, I wouldn’t vote for Newsome in a primary, I have others I like and hope they throw thier hats in the ring. Do yall know what a Democratic Primary is? JFC!
sep 1, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn’t take guts to parody Trump from the safety of California’s 4th largest economy. It takes guts and a backbone to protect and not betray transgender people.
aug 31, 2025, 10:25 pm • 11 0 • view
What do you think of going on far right podcasts to endorse the elimjnation of all trans rights and medical care? A policy you agree with or a major mistake and fumble that alienated many from the guy with supposedly superior instincts?
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 pm • 4 0 • view
I think that’s sh*t and I was very disappointed however we must look at the moment of what is needed in the severity of what’s happening in this Country or there will be NO rights for anyone except ciswht males. Focus on 2026 then we debate 2028. You r aware of what’s happening beside that comment?
aug 31, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, several congress people, a young Senator, and multiple centrist pundits are also saying the party should abandon trans ppl, and because we live in the anglosphere we can see what happens when the center left does that, meanwhile many of Trump's authoritarian acts based on transphobia
aug 31, 2025, 10:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Picking Newsom as your avatar puts you on the transphobes side and makes American Keir Starmer the best we can hope for, and we can see how well thats going for not just transppl but many other vulnerable ppl
aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 3 0 • view
My avatar isn’t Newsome it’s ME!!! A picture of ME! lol! I would not want Newsome as POTUS however everyone is voting so Kier Starmer probably won’t be the Nominee. Focus on 2026 so we are able to have a primary
aug 31, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
get in! bsky.app/profile/iant...
aug 31, 2025, 10:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Pritzker and Moore have both been willing to go after Trump without throwing LGBTQ+ people under the bus. Hell, Janet Mills did it in the WH to his face in defense of trans people. If you need a craven hack like Newsom, that says more about you than the current political environment.
sep 1, 2025, 11:26 am • 5 0 • view
He's like Pritzker, only worse in every non-cosmetic way. If he was only 5% shittier, he'd be Mike Pence.
aug 31, 2025, 10:01 pm • 28 0 • view
Ok, who would you like since you know everything. And seem to be a one topic voter like an anti-choice voter?
aug 31, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
when we make all of our demands known, people like you tell us to compromise. when we compromise all of our values except the core base of "treat us like human beings," people like you call us "single issue voters." what you want is for us to vote shamelessly and reliably for whatever slop is fed us
sep 1, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s start here.. I am NOT a Newsome 2028 person, full STOP! So you’re a ONE issue voter for the good of liberty, freedom for all? For one issue willing to sacrifice everything for a fascist national? Got it! I’ll work hard for everyone’s rights and a democracy Focus on 2026
sep 1, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Your answer is right there, can any of you read
aug 31, 2025, 10:17 pm • 10 0 • view
Mm, can we try Kamala again?
aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t think she’s interested (I would love it) I don’t think it will be another Woman however we’ll have to see in the Dem-primary. Now we need to focus on 2026 or there won’t be a 2028. These fascists are after everyone but wht-cis men
aug 31, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
If you want to lose again
sep 1, 2025, 11:27 am • 7 0 • view
The Newsom hate is ridiculous. Mike Pence doesn't win statewide four times in California and multiple times in San Francisco.
sep 1, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
He has a good social media team (this is documented) and he smiles for the camera as he dumpsters what little belongings his unhoused constituents still have as he photo-op helps with a camp bulldozing razing what little they have left of their lives. Fuck him. I like the Trump trolling. That's all.
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s not going to be the Dem Nom.
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Nor should he be. Newsom has always been focused first and foremost upon what the next opportunity can bring him personally. He's making himself useful now, but we know from experience not to expect it from him forever.
aug 31, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Doesn’t matter right now we are focused on Democracy and 2026. JFC! Y’all just don’t get it.
sep 1, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
The thing is, we DO get it, it's you guys who don't get it. Newsom is every bit as much a threat. An asshole fighting with an asshole doesn't make the asshole a good guy. If you were focused on democracy you'd realize the threat he represents.
sep 1, 2025, 12:47 am • 4 0 • view
He will NOT be the Dem nominee for POTUS, he’s just useful now. Sometimes you keep your enemies closer. I’m not a fan, it’s the art of war. He won’t be popular enough in the Country
sep 1, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
I hope you are right, but here's the thing: Megadonors, and the DNC. I think there is a very real, bordering on somewhat probably chance that he will indeed be the nominee. The pushed choice. The "doesn't spook our big-check-writing megadonors" choice.
sep 1, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
I’m just trying to get it out there, your looking to far ahead. We must focus on 2026, it’s imperative. Look at the Gaza uproar against Harris (all false) she would have Won and we would be in a different situation in Gaza and this Country Forest through the trees
sep 1, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
There is no reason to believe she would be different from Biden on Gaza
sep 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
You kind of have it backwards. We're pushing back against people looking too far ahead pushing Newsom. And absolutely yes Harris would clearly be better for everyone, but this country's political pipeline has been taken over by monied shitheels so we can't have nice things.
sep 1, 2025, 5:26 am • 2 0 • view
They may get it eventually. For now, however, a thing I've discovered is that trying to discuss matters with a person more intent on scolding and on insinuating that others who fail to see everything their way must be stupid... well, that's time and effort probably better spent elsewhere.
sep 1, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you and you are correct. Every once in a while, I get caught in a web because I’m a helper. I know better. Thank you
sep 1, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
I don't find it difficult to believe your heart is in the right / a good place. But true or false: 'Scolding' of Newsom-pushback boils down to: "Don't express your politics, or what matters to you."
sep 1, 2025, 2:10 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t tell me what to do~ thank you
sep 1, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
And whether he were or not it's perfectly fine for people to point out what a piece of shit he is.
aug 31, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
@ianthe.online
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Followed
aug 31, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
lmao this was so she'd put you on a mute list for people who expect us to sacrifice ourselves for Gavin
aug 31, 2025, 10:50 pm • 10 0 • view
No one has to be on mute, just don’t understand why she’s after Newsome now. Seems counter productive
aug 31, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you live under a rock? Everyone who's criticizing Newsom is very open about the reasons why: he is violently transphobic, anti-homeless, anti-immigrant, pro-cop, and basically just a blue fascist. It is extremely productive to point all this out before he has a chance to win anything.
sep 1, 2025, 12:37 am • 6 0 • view
Demanding that trans people vote for Newsom is demanding that we kill ourselves for your comfort. Get a better candidate. You still have time.
sep 1, 2025, 12:37 am • 8 1 • view
Followed
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
it takes a lot of guts arresting constituents protesting ICE deporting their neighbors lmao
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 6 0 • view
What are you even saying
aug 31, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
mandating curfews, calling protests violent and illegal, coordinating with local law enforcement to protect ICE from imaginary rise in assaults, things Newsom does to resist trump (besides AI memes)
aug 31, 2025, 10:25 pm • 6 0 • view
WTF? I follow a lot of different people, doesn’t mean I agree with them all the time. That would be stupid.
aug 31, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Ka-pow! Well done!
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏
aug 31, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I have been told reliably that purity politics is when you have a dozen possible candidates and you think eleven of them would make passable presidents
aug 31, 2025, 4:47 pm • 46 4 • view
So we know this. You have done nothing to Impede anyone. The goal is to get under Trumps skin. You are aiding Trump.
sep 1, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Newsoms only goal is power for himself. You are aiding transphobia
sep 1, 2025, 11:27 am • 6 0 • view
How?
sep 1, 2025, 12:12 pm • 2 0 • view
“We need to pick someone who espouses enough white supremacy to keep white people comfortable”
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 16 1 • view
As a Canadian, I am mystified by liberals who are flaying the only high-profile person in America who is actively and effectively fighting the fascists in power. Y’all must have a burning desire to be obliterated. SMDH.
aug 31, 2025, 8:34 pm • 7 0 • view
It’s so dumb.
sep 1, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
That's because your idea of fighting is a social media team posting Some Real Zingers
aug 31, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Some of us have been watching Newsom since he was on the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors more than 25 years ago. We know that he operates not on principle but rather on opportunity, and we know what will happen the first time the wind blows from an unfavorable direction. SYDH about that.
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, all I see, from an external perspective, is that he is devastatingly effective at eviscerating Trump. Whether you like it or not, you need him right now.
aug 31, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Is he doing a good job of mocking Trump? It sure seems so. Does that make him a qualified candidate? I wouldn't be so sure.
aug 31, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
You could be right. Still, you need someone to step up. Soon.
aug 31, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
It would certainly be nice.
aug 31, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
You know, I think I can speak for the majority of Canadians when I say that we are horrified about what is happening - to people, to institutions, to laws…. I honestly don’t know what I would do if this happened in Canada. I’m so sorry and wish the best of luck. Sincerely.
aug 31, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Laurie I’m impressed by how confident you are while also being someone who clearly isn’t familiar with the news
aug 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 22 0 • view
Oh really? You know that much about me? I’m impressed.
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I know that you said something that wasn’t true and is an indicator that you’re not familiar with what other governors are doing
aug 31, 2025, 8:43 pm • 20 0 • view
Kind of embarrassing for a former journalist
aug 31, 2025, 8:43 pm • 17 0 • view
Yeah, I guess my 45+ years in and around news and politics is all for naught. Clearly, I am shit. 🙄
aug 31, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you know or any other democratic US governors or only the slick haired, California one?
aug 31, 2025, 9:59 pm • 15 0 • view
Of course. Pritzker stands out. My big point is, you’d better rally soon about someone who somehow appeals to all voters (ps: they don’t exist) are you are truly screwed. Everyone outside the U.S. can already see you are living in a totalitarian state. We can see the forest for the trees.
aug 31, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
There are others and there is plenty of time. People are resisting and protesting everywhere. Thanks for watching.
aug 31, 2025, 10:22 pm • 10 0 • view
Good luck. The world is hoping you are right there is time. Doesn’t look like it from our perspective.
aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
The reason Pritzker and Newsom stand out as they and Walz are the only ones fighting hard. That's 3 of 23 Democratic governors lol.
sep 1, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
These people take real pride in liking the product designed for them and aggressively marketed to them
aug 31, 2025, 10:04 pm • 4 0 • view
There are 23 Democratic governors. How many are fighting Trump, good hair or not?
sep 1, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
yes but fascist nazis are there now.....
sep 1, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
I don't understand why we are even talking about the presidential primaries right now. Don't we have more pressing issues?
aug 31, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
History will remember you for your work 🩷 Thank you!
aug 31, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 10:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Who the fuck even suggests sinema?
sep 1, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
Woot! I love how much power you have
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m a benevolent dictator, don’t worry
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 8 0 • view
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
sep 1, 2025, 10:49 am • 1 0 • view
You're doing a heckuva job!
aug 31, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Real focus on what is important right now
aug 31, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
What is important to me is queer rights since its obvious they aren't important to you cis hets since you want a transphobe
sep 1, 2025, 11:29 am • 2 0 • view
So we will have Dump forever. Have fun.
sep 1, 2025, 11:31 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Are you honestly fucking telling me you can't provide a single candidate who isn't a fucking transphobe? If you can't, then you, YOU deserve trump
sep 1, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly! It's time for us to work on building up good candidates - while doing everything in our power to resist this fascist and authoritarian Administration.
aug 31, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
SCOTUS officially declared Trump POTUS has IMMUNITY, & TrumpMuskPutinGOP is WIDELY enacting their kleptocratic wet dreams Tulsi Fucking Gabbard is DNI Oligarchs reign …& Right-of-Center “Dems” reality-TV style chatter about whose fav is gonna be in the next few season’s shitshow “elections”
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
It's nice how the democrats throwing queer folks rights into the fire is just a distraction to cis hets like you
sep 1, 2025, 11:31 am • 2 0 • view
You’re 100% off. How’d you arrive at that notion of me?
sep 1, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
By you calling our anger over the dems sucking up to a transphobe as there next big possible canidate a show
sep 1, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t know what to tell you. That’s not my stance, & I don’t understand why you keep choosing to believe so
sep 1, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree with CPW that the “Choose your complicit superhero” game we’re being pressed to play right now is horrible You can check my posts if you like. I fight hard, every fucking day, online & in person, for civil rights, inclusivity, & community
sep 1, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for your service! I thought I'd get all the blame for ending his campaign via pointing out his connections to Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and his fathers connections to Gestapo member Otto Von Bolschwing. But apparently you single handily ended his campaign.
aug 31, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah but the Democratic Party hasn’t had a legitimate presidential primary in seventeen years so who cares. Let them anoint Gavin Newsom. It’s not like we can stop them.
aug 31, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Any talk about elections is establishment gaslighting propaganda. We must come together over the lies & corruption to make Maidan & popular revolution before we will have free & fair elections again. Newsom’s rhetoric is useful, but he is only a general. We will prove fraud & Harris will be 47.
sep 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
If I wanted to get some free press for my new book, this is exactly the thing I would post.
aug 31, 2025, 9:09 pm • 2 0 • view
So, is it his transphobia, his Nazi apology podcast, or his brutal treatment of homeless folks(that he’s right now in the process of doing) that make him such a liberal hero?
sep 1, 2025, 12:16 pm • 6 1 • view
Oh, I forgot about the dating a kid right outta highschool
sep 1, 2025, 12:17 pm • 3 0 • view
when the fascists bots come for you, you know you're doing things right
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Sarcasm or stupidity, or both?
aug 31, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
The problem is this: Where are the viable fighting Democratic Party candidates? We are not seeing them so far. The fight against Trump is going on right now. Anyone who wants to be seen as a leader in the party needs to suit up now, and get on the battlefield. No time for political purity tests.
aug 31, 2025, 8:53 pm • 7 1 • view
"we can't pass your purity test of finding a non transphobe so you must pass our purity test of voting for someone who actively hates you" Find another canidate or you won't find our votes
sep 1, 2025, 11:14 am • 44 12 • view
Let’s say there isn’t one. Ok? So just throwing minorities away for the appearance of order? You mean… fascism?
sep 1, 2025, 11:18 am • 3 0 • view
You’re a very unserious person.
sep 1, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
OK
sep 1, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
If you’re not doing enough reading to answer this question, you should spend more time reading and less time whining about purity tests in my replies
aug 31, 2025, 8:55 pm • 26 0 • view
Reading what? Hes asking for names of other dems actually fighting trump
aug 31, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Mocking Trump on social media isn’t the fight you think it is. A list was given. If you don’t know what those people are doing you can google it for free.
aug 31, 2025, 11:08 pm • 8 0 • view
Im talking on the house floor people doing trump impressions mockong him. It should have happened a long time ago. Mocking authoritarianism is an effective tactic
sep 1, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
Its literally the easiest step you can take. Any politician not mocking trump on social media isnt doing their job.
sep 1, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
The list includes Whitmer. She's the exact opposite of a fighter of Trump.
sep 1, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Because the list is short: Newsom, Pritzker, Walz of the governors. Then a handful of members of Congress like Murphy, Raskin, AOC, Crockett. Newsom wouldn't be surging if we had a party full of fighters.
sep 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 2 0 • view
There won't be a 2028 election if Trump becomes a dictator. That's why Newsom and now Pritzker are rising. Nothing stopping other Democrats from joining the fight against a dictator. Especially the ones working in a city under military occupation who have an easy photo op to denounce dictatorship.
sep 1, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Just a handful 😔 Sadly Democrats are turning out to be a huge disappointment
sep 1, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
"But in the cosmic calendar, the 2028 primary is a mere .007 seconds away"
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 4 0 • view
And I have Thanos snapped Newsom’s chances
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 16 0 • view
Don't you understand that the only possible way a democrat wins the white house in 2028 is if the entire internet agrees not to criticize any of the possible candidates ever, a plan that is completely achievable if we all simply commit to being unbearable online scolds for three solid years?
aug 31, 2025, 4:50 pm • 17 2 • view
couldn't you just double the resources?
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view
No I’m committed to maximal damage
aug 31, 2025, 8:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Encouraged to see people engaging in genuine discussion about the merits of various likely candidates in this thread bsky.app/profile/chan...
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 pm • 98 7 • view
So far AOC is the only candidate on that list I'd want to vote for in a primary.
aug 31, 2025, 4:10 pm • 12 0 • view
i would be happy if Pritzker started doing better than Newsom, we have a little Pritzker fomo in Michigan cause he’s way better than what we have to work with 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Whitmer has been nowhere to be seen on Trump's dictatorial desires. The few times she has been seen is cozying up to Trump. Beshear hasn't called out Trump as an aspiring dictator. He seems to view Trump as a normal Republican like W or Reagan.
sep 1, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m very glad he’s doing what he’s doing, and the more the better, but Newsom is unacceptable as the nominee because of his stance on trans people and his actions toward the unhoused.
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 pm • 9 0 • view
You want people to live on the streets in tents. You don't think they deserve a second chance or a roof over their heads. You also don't live in Los Angeles.
aug 31, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
You want them thrown in prisons. You're being a dick. I live in boston which has a major homeless mess problem and I work with the homeless. Newsoms shit only hurts homeless people
sep 1, 2025, 11:16 am • 6 0 • view
That's a divide here. People who experience homelessness directly and people who see it on TV.
sep 1, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a performative talking point for them. They are completely clueless what the situation really is. California is spending over a billion dollars on housing the homeless because people deserve better than living in squalor on the streets, our neighborhoods. They deserve help and a roof.
sep 1, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I noticed they criticize Newsom but don't offer another governor as an example. Newsom is pouring billions into the issue. Who else is? It's also an odd hill to die on. Newsom's position reflects a large majority. People don't want to be harassed while shopping or boarding a train.
sep 1, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
It's all a hit job on Newsom because of his cautionary stance on trans kids. Imagine not voting for Obama because he wasn't for gay marriage. They're taking all of his positives and trying to turn them into negatives.
sep 1, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
The weirdest thing to me is painting Newsom as an opportunist. Taking on an aspiring dictator is a high risk thing. If it's such an "opportunity" why are so few taking it (Whitmer, Shapiro, etc.)? He also risked his career for gay marriage in the early 2000s. He appears to be courageous to me.
sep 1, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree! And we need all hands on deck, no matter who they are and what they bring. They see him as a 2028 threat, but if we don't take the midterms next year there will be no 2028 election. They bruised Hillary hard and early, they see it as a winning strategy and are gunning for Newsom.
sep 1, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view
And they seem to fear him because he is showing he can play MAGA's game. They aren't saying anything about Shapiro, Whitmer or the others.
sep 1, 2025, 7:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t hate him; he’s ruled himself out for my vote in a primary. I will vote for whoever the Dem nominee is regardless, but I think we have possible candidates who are just as strong who haven’t thrown vulnerable groups under the bus.
sep 1, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Pritzker is the obvious choice as a Trump fighter who has stood strong for trans rights. Newsom will have to clarify his stance if he wants to actually win the nomination but I doubt he and others of his ilk (the democracy is on the line folks) are thinking 2028 given the emergency now.
sep 1, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think it’s an insult to say they’ve all probably got 2028 on their minds. If they compete to be the toughest on Trump, great!
sep 1, 2025, 9:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I think a lot of the Newsom hate will get exposed when he is running against other candidates. Right now it is easy to hone in on him but Newsom's critics fail to acknowledge why: because he is the most visible opponent of Trump in a party afraid to take him on.
sep 1, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
He's only said it about trans in sports. I don't like his position either but I am a realist and expect nearly every candidate to have the same stance. If he was an outlier it's a bigger strike against him.
sep 1, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
And that’s the real issue for you? You’re inconvenienced by having to confront what our society has done, and you’d prefer that they be invisible? Majorities can be wrong, and this majority definitely is. People aren’t a problem to be solved; they’re human beings, whatever their housing status.
sep 1, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm "inconvenienced" by having someone yell in my ear en route to a show or to a train. I also know this hurts economic activity and therefore revenues in cities. It's easy to say "do nothing" in a suburb. Also, some of them are offered help and don't take it.
sep 1, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m amazed that you’re provincial enough to believe that only California has a serious problem with unhoused people. Jesus.
sep 1, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Surprise! People are homeless throughout this country, and you don’t have to live in a downtown area to know and care about people who are experiencing it. It’s also possible to help people in ways that ensure they don’t lose their prized possessions or their dignity.
sep 1, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
There is no dignity living on the street.
sep 1, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
You're using a 2019 talking point, the policy changed in 2020. abc7.com/post/la-city...
sep 1, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
The U.S. is more than CA. This is still happening. I can infer that you believe that you’d never be reduced to sleeping in your car or having to scramble to keep what possessions you can. If you’re typical of Newsom’s supporters, my instincts about him are right. Anybody but Newsom ‘28.
sep 1, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Newsom has put $24 billion towards homelessness since 2019. Who else is doing more? What's the better alternative? Do nothing and let people get harassed as they go about routine activity in a city? This is an economic problem for cities.
sep 1, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
That's an exaggeration. I see many homeless in every city. I don't see them in suburbia. Of course they exist everywhere. It's a matter of scale. I've been part of efforts to help. Some of them don't want to go to a shelter or get other help. I've also seen the economic impact in cities.
sep 1, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t know where you live, but I’m in GA,; unhoused people are actually quite visible in my otherwise prosperous suburb as well as in downtown Atlanta. You think that this could never happen to you, that you’d never be one of “those people” you find so annoying?
sep 1, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I wouldn't be harassing random people, yes. It's everywhere but not acute outside of cities. So let's say Newsom is "anti" homeless. Who's running on homeless encampments anywhere as the "great" alternative?
sep 1, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
And no, I’m not exaggerating at all. Ask anyone who works with homelessness in a suburban area. Our society is impossibly cruel. One suburban area in Tennessee is making it illegal to sleep in your car. What are people supposed to do?
sep 1, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Being in a car is different from camping outside of businesses or transit stations etc.
sep 1, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
The fact that you don’t see them in suburbia doesn’t mean that they aren’t there and they aren’t suffering - people who just can’t find housing they can afford as well as people with mental health and/or addiction problems. While it’s invisible to you, the problem is just as serious.
sep 1, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
"Invisible" isn't the same as not knowing about it. I worked to help. Some took the help and went to shelters, others didn't.
sep 1, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re deliberately misinterpreting what I said. No one should have their belongings tossed away just because they’re unhoused. And it’s quite possible to provide housing while treating people with dignity rather than as a problem to be solved. BTW, jerk, this problem is everywhere in our country.
sep 1, 2025, 2:30 am • 3 0 • view
The story that everyone had their possessions tossed is just not true. We spent over a billion dollars to find housing, jobs, drug treatment and care for homeless people and the mentally ill. The streets are safer and people have roofs over their heads instead of living in squalor under a freeway
sep 1, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
Again, the issue exists outside California. And I never said that “everyone” had their belongings tossed or destroyed, but it’s happened here in Georgia, and even one instance is too much. Apartments are unaffordable for many in this state even in the smallest, least appealing towns.
sep 1, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
You mean the billions of dollars he has devoted to homelessness? What are other governors doing on the subject? His position on trans is concerning but likely will be shared by most of the 2028 candidates. If we make it to 2028.
sep 1, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t excuse “clearing” homeless encampments in a way that’s inhumane and robs people of dignity.
sep 1, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
What's the alternative? Leaving them there? That's what DC's approach has been. That's part of the pretext for DC being under federal occupation now.
sep 1, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
You can provide housing without bulldozing and destroying people’s prized possessions - family photos, birth certificates, etc. That’s an absolutely despicable thing to do. And the “clearing” takes place across the country; an Atlanta man was killed by a bulldozer during one such action.
sep 1, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They should be given proper notice and an opportunity to get things in order before that happens. Was that not being done? Were they randomly showing up and clearing things out? Doubt it. There also are some who will refuse to get help, get housed. Leave them in front of the local Target huh?
sep 1, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view