The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.
The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.
I was speaking with an older lady about who could be as energizing for the left as Bernie for the next election, I said AOC and maybe Jasmine Crockett on the same ticket. (which is a pipe dream, I’m sure)
Anyway, she said Gavin Newsom, and didn’t believe me when I said he’s a centrist. And I couldn’t understand why she even felt he’s a leftist. He must have some good pr somewhere that I’m not looking lol
There’s plenty of left leaning Americans who think Doug Ford is a good guy because he says shit about Trump. It shouldn’t be surprising.
To be fair, most Americans don’t pay any attention to Canadian politics (or any other country tbh). So Doug’s jacked up policies go in one ear and out the other because they very broadly don’t affect Americans.
Can’t really blame Americans for not knowing or caring about politics outside the US, we have to keep up with ones own state, federal, and possibly the politics of neighboring states.
Gavin has done what no one else is doing, punching back, speaking Trump’s language. It’s getting attention from all quarters. Meanwhile Dems are busy shutting him down preemptively because purity tests. It’s another fascinating move from the “we don’t want to govern” party.
Punching back is the absolute bare minimum requirement for a supposed opposition party (looking at you Schumer and Jeffries).
But Newsom has been repeatedly demonstrating that he is willing to throw our trans friends and unhoused neighbors under the bus for political points. Ask yourself, if he’s willing to betray one group, what’s stopping him from betraying any other group should he decide that it’s politically expedient?
This has nothing to do with “purity tests”
Thank you for being more eloquent with your reply than I was able to be. That purity test comment made me see red. Where else are disenfranchised groups to go, but to the left? How can we be represented if the only place we can turn refuses to represent us?
Wanting your governor to not kill poor people isn’t a purity test…
People just remember he was the mayor of one of the most liberal cities in the US, so it translates in their head as him being liberal.
Corporate media and billions in oligarchy money.
It is sad that we keep having to repeat the same thing over and over again yet people refuse to learn. The Democratic party and the Republican party are both tools of the same oligarchy and they both fight against the normal people in different flavors. The Democrats happily gave the last election to Trump instead of stopping an US backed genocide and since then they often cooperated to help Trumps fascist power grab.
Unless the party is fundamentally changed and all its current and past leaders ousted and disgraced, it cannot be a means for bettering society.