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Included in the bill:

The proposal includes a provision that would tax former California residents for up to 10 years after they move.

Seems totally fair! I’m sure so many of you would have no issues with this at all! Right?

Also, as Newsom has stated his reasoning is that it causes fiscal instability that would drive out businesses and hurt state finances. Furthermore, he has said he is willing to work on broader solutions to the issues. But yeah, as usual- don’t let this get in the way of whatever fabricated bullshit take is currently being used and accepted without question.

It’s pretty evident from the comments here that no one learned what happens as a result of ignorantly believing that good is the enemy of perfect, and will be perfectly happy to repeat the mistakes of the past.

And lastly, I know this is a nuanced take on the matter, and nuance is generally considered an enemy of the state here, so I’m fully expecting to be accused of being whatever the current ad hominem of the week is. (Is it still “bootlicker? It’s hard to keep track. I know “bLueMaGa” was popular a while back)

But be that as it may, to me, it won’t make what I said wrong. Just- disagreed with.

FINALLY. Someone thinking about the billionaires.

The only reason Newsom has had any interest from the broader electorate is that he was outspoken in opposing Trump. The minute he enters the primary and starts spouting the same valueless, donor-approved, corporate drivel as Kamala, Jefferies, Schumer, etc., he's going to flame out fast.

I got a fiver that says he has to try to walk this back when he runs “the most progressive campaign in us history” in 2028.

I mean, how lucky are we? Hillary, Biden, Kamala, all with “the most progressive platform” ever!

If this is the Democratic candidate, and there is no adequate progressive 3rd party candidate, 2028 will be the first election I sit out since 2000.

I am DONE accepting milquetoast corporate right wing democrats just because they aren’t literally insane. John Kerry was my first, and Kamala Harris is my last. I swear to fucking god.

"b... b... bUt alL tHe BiLliOnAiReS wILl rUn aWAy. TRiCkLe DoWn eCoNoMiCs, sOmeThIng, SoMeThIng" - bootlicking cunt

Newsom has received campaign cash from billionaires such as Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, among others.

Of course he does.

And so it begins. Abandon all progressive ideas to appeal to the "centrist", only to lose to the fascist again. I hate it here.

I'm glad he's having his moment now; his unhinged social media posts put the president's in perspective and the redistricting of California in advance of the midterms shows how we can fight fire with fire.

But most importantly, the way cycles of popularity work means that he will be tired, old news by 2028. We will be safe from him.

This guy fuckmurders the homeless while whoring for billionaires. Why the fuck should anyone vote for this prick?

I wouldn't vote for Gavin if he was the Democratic candidate. He is just as horrible as the other Democrats.

We need true change and true leaders that will change the government to work for the working class instead of the wealthy.

Gonna have to change that stance if he wants to run on the Dem ticket in the year of our lord 2028.

Cuz everyone gonna be REAL fucking mad at billionaires by then if things keep going the way they are.

I mean c’mon, let’s not get too carried away, next thing ya know they’ll be wanting to tax the billionaires or something.

Jon Stewart, 2028.

The problem with Reagan and Trump isn't that they were actors. The problem is that they were complete pieces of shit long before they were elected.

Actor-presidents have demonstrated a natural propensity for revolutionary disruption of entrenched attitudes. Reagan completely fucked over economic policy; Trump is completely fucking over the fundamental concept of democracy.

Imagine that same degree of revolutionary disruption moving us toward egalitarianism rather than corpo-fascism.

At this point in time I'm pretty sure you would win in a landslide if you ran on taxing billionaires. Is being greedy a requirement to be a politician in the US?

No surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to what he does instead of what he says.

At some point the left needs to realize that sitting out voting doesn’t work. Yes the candidate sucks from your political stance but they are better than the alternative and it gives a platform from which to push left. This has been the playbook of the right for decades and is why they have been so successful in shifting the Overton window. They vote in any circumstance even if the candidate isn’t as right leaning as they would prefer but to them at least it’s not a dem.

Edit: to be clear I’m all for taxing billionaires and corporations far more.

I'd vote for Newsom if he's the nominee, but I really hope he's not the nominee (assuming, obviously, the relative utopian future where we get to vote in 2028).

I'm glad when his media exposure goals overlap with doing actual good things, but - and I may be putting too fine a point on it - he's basically Hillary if Hillary had a penis and was super jazzed about it, and I am fairly confident I know the smug look he makes when he smells his own farts.

Liberals gonna liberal.

I'd still rather have a capitalist than a fascist.