Your solutions to complex problems are simplistic and always involve taxing the wealthy as the ultimate solution that will solve everything which can't be the catch-all solution. Newsome isn't perfect, he's made mistakes, but he's the only one pushing a viable plan so cut him some slack.
Taxing the rich to pay for housing works a hell of a lot better as a solution to homelessness than subjecting the unhoused to state violence, what in the fuck are you saying?
Homelessness is not a simple solution. Many choose to live outside of the system due to mental health issues and/or drug addiction. I cut slack here..
This is the always and forever argument about half-loaves and blue no matter who. You feel brave and stern parroting it. A grown up. The issue has never been purity. I am absolutely ok if Newsom’s views don’t align fully or even mostly with mine.
What I’m not ok with, is political hacks. People who abandon politically inconvenient positions and then later repudiate them. People who prevaricate about their beliefs in order to keep votes. And the reason I’m not ok with it, is not morality or purity. It’s because voters despise inauthenticity
Time and again we elect leaders who we -know- are pretending to believe something they don’t in order to shore up political support. And that kind of politics works well on the small stage, sure. But in the big leagues it has failed, time and time again. Voters smell it, and are disgusted by it
Agree with this! He’s made some poor choices, but I’ll forgive him if he can save America.
And at least his name isn’t on every page of the Epstein Files.
How nice of you to forgive him on behalf of trans people and homeless people that he's harmed.
C’on now. Not what I meant. Clearly.
He's not made poor choices, he's literally full on pro AI deregulation which includes companies like Palantir that have explicit missions to hurt humans using AI.
No one one person can save this country.
No, but damn we need a leader
Then be a leader.
What! Of the Dems ?
He hasn't said that only he can save America, that was lügentrump. He's said we have to do this together. But one person can stir up and ignite the fire in us to fight back. That's #MyGovernorNewsom Demon trump fanned the ember hatred & racism in some to full flame to win.
I didn't say or infer that he (Newsom) said it.
This right here. It takes community, literally from the ground up just like Bernie said, starting it locally and working your way up all through each state. We are so complacent that we only dream of one *perfect* person to pick up the banner and do all of the fucking work for us.
Right. And the "one perfect person" is always a lie.
Save us? From ourselves. This is because we didnt execute enough confederates and then we let their granddaughters build statues to them. America has always had this problem. Newsom won't fix a damn thing.
Nicely put.
"I'll forgive the harms he's done to other people so long as my comfort will be preserved"
If?
It’s not your rights he’ll trample on so you don’t care. You don’t give a shit about trans rights. That’s why you’re willing to give him slack. You guys didn’t care about Palestinian lives either. This is why you lose.
Typical arrogant centrist white dude take. “Your solutions are simplistic,” he says, as he pushes a simplistic solution himself: vote for any Dem running against Trump. That already happened with Biden, who was a huge failure and cared more about aiding genocide than aiding people in the US.
“Cut him some slack” is a statement reserved for people who don’t go after trans people, who don’t forcibly displace those living in extreme poverty, who don’t kick people off Medí-Cal, who don’t kill universal healthcare while having a supermajority in the legislature. Newsome is a fucking tool.
I agree we have to follow Newsome for now as he’s the only motherfucker doing anything. Even though he has a shitty past, even at the beginning of this presidency in those stupid podcasts.
JB Pritzker is right fucking there dude.
What's the problem with taxing the wealthy again?
I don't see any problem with it at all. We should be doing it. They should be taxed as fairly as we are. They should have all of their loopholes closed. And yeah they're the same loopholes that I take advantage of when I can. Close them. But it is not a single solution that will fix our problems.
It will fix most of them. Wages and housing are next.
How are basic human rights for trans people a “complex problem”? And how is declaring war on homeless people a “viable plan”?
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Nope.
No, the reason the democrats keep losing is because corporate shills keep pushing policies that are unpopular with the American people. The American people rejected them. I am sick and tired of seeing people blame the progressives when they hold zero power and have fielded no presidential candidates
The people you are defending lost in 2016, they lost in 2024, and if it weren’t for covid, they would have lost in 2020. They hold all of the power in the party, which means that they bear all of the responsibility for failure. Not the handful of progressive representatives.
Your candidates keeps losing, and you keep blaming progressives. The American people don’t like them. They didn’t like hillary, they didn’t like biden, they didn’t like biden, and frankly, they don’t like gavin newsom. Biden only won because people rejected trump due to covid failures.
An obvious failure Trump has been at many levels. Economically _and socially. He doesn't give a damn who he kills off. COVID and cuts to healthcare!
They didn't like Hillary because the GOP spent 30 years dragging her through the mud.. She was stained from the get-go. I've seen more people like Biden than like anybody, even people that didn't like Obama liked Biden.
The data begs to differ. He had to pull out specifically because of how badly he was polling after what can only be described as the worst debate performance in American history. Nobody was energized to vote for Biden. Not even the democrats, who should have been locked in at that point.
He alienated many mainstream voters, and he alienated his own party. And why wouldn’t he? As a candidate he was barely functional. As a president, he helped facilitate a genocide, and could barely push for an infrastructure bill. That was his crowning achievement. A neutered infrastructure bill.
Lets be clear: I’ll take an innefextual lame duck president over Trump any day of the week. But historically? He’ll only be remembered as obama’s vice president, and the guy who stood in the middle of the two(?)Trump presidencies. He was a conceited fool who may have list us American Democracy.
I agree with you 100% on some of this. The reason and the only reason that the DNC ran Biden because they were trying to recapture the Obama years and this was the only way to do it. No matter how many better candidates that we had, that was what the DNC insisted on doing and they hold the purse.
Strings, and therefore we have to dance to their damn tune. Which is why I'm not giving any money to the DNC. I will give money directly to candidates. I will not give a penny to the DNC until there is a radical change in their policies, like a total turnover. Not the same old, same old shit.
You noticed that a month after Trump started enacting his policies on January 20th, the DNC started begging for money. But the proof that they have not changed one single BIT is them having their convention AND LINE DANCING while Elon Musk was taking over the United States Treasury.
That's where I'm at with him. No, he's FAR from perfect. But he's so much better than what we have NOW...
He doesn't have a viable plan other than "make me president or else"
Tax rich is a fair economic solution. Not a ALL fairness solution. You can have a racist white president that taxes rich. Of course nothing is perfect. Tldr of your idea is: devil president is better than a devil lord. USA kinda suck huh.🤣 dont even a 'kind' candidate.
Simplistic or not, taxing the wealthy would do much, housing and energy costs getting addressed would also do much.