Can someone explain to an outsider why this guy kept getting heralded as the next great Democrat leader? Every single thing I’ve read about him has been “Newsom deploys extra orphan crushing machines” and other nakedly Republican policies. Does he just have a huge bot farm working for him or something?
Fuck this guy.
If he joined Trumps cabinet tomorrow I would not be surprised in the least.
He is at the head of the Donorcrat party, because that lets him have a sustainable career. The Turdpublicans are the roman candle of conservative politics, burning brightly and burnt out swiftly.
He basically wants to do this for the rest of his life:
he already was pushing the envelope with nick fuentes, he was testing the water how far people would support him, if h hosted right wingers.
Just another corpo cuck who grandstands about “the good fight” or whatever on socials
I’m never fucking voting for this man. Look at me neolibs, never. If you want to lose the next election pick this fucker. It’ll be your fucking choice.
sadly he was the only choice in cali or a republican. and there will be another corporate stooge becoming the governer again.
He really doesn’t give a shit about pretending anymore. He knows his patrons have already financed his DNC nomination.
MAGA appreciates your surrender.
and MAGA’s creators and funders appreciate having guys in their pocket representing both parties.
The presidential primaries aren’t for ages yet. This is exactly the time to be campaigning for a better option. Giving it the “if you don’t support this guy you’re supporting MAGA” spiel at this stage is insane to the point of being a pro-MAGA position in of itself.
bOtH siDeS!
bOtH siDeS!
This right back you unironically. You’re the one banging the drum on a one-note oversimplified position.
Controlled opposition. They’re co-collaborators.
LMAO.
Scumbag, loser, pathetic.
Not as bad as a Republican can still be reay fucking bad.
he’s really cashing out at the end of his career isnt he. What a traitorous arsehole. People like him are why the democratic party is on the rocks.
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ex is a piece of shit too? Surprised it didn’t work out between them.
Yep. I’m prepared to fight like hell in the primary, if we get one, to make sure he doesn’t make it on the ballot. If we don’t topple establishment leadership at the DNC this election though, they will force Newsom through regardless of what the primary shows, like with Bernie. The bigger fight is now.
I thought I heard the DNC already replaced its chairperson with someone more progressive
Ken Martin, they promoted him from running Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, which is our local Democratic party and generally is a bit left of the national party. I don’t know how progressive Martin himself is versus how much just kinda happened under him because of the party itself - Governor Tim Walz signed off on a lot of progressive stuff because he briefly oversaw a DFL trifecta and he and his party were willing to spend political capital to make good things happen but I wouldn’t consider Walz to be super progressive on his own.
Ken Martin is cause for a bit of optimism, he’s more progressive, but he may just be an amorphous blob of whatever machine he’s in front of.
Possibly-amorphous-blob is still better than an establishment centrist who will screw over progressives like they did to Bernie.
There’s a lot of leftward momentum right now, and as long as that isn’t actively hindered from the top, then I think we have reason to hope.
It’s not the end. I’d eat a random street hat if he doesn’t run for president. Pretty sure ego and ambition are secreted from his scalp and create his natural hair gel.
He may call himself a democrat but he’s a republican on the inside.
If it acts like a Republican…
As are most of them these days.
I wish he was at the end of his career, but establishment shitheads keep pushing him like the reactionaries they are
He’s been a sleeve ball his whole career. Fucking that guy
And there are still people thinking this corrupt asshole would be a good US President.
No, there are just people that think if he’s the ONLY choice vs. a pedophile fascist- he’d be the better choice of the two.
Learn what the fuck nuanced thinking is- and then start practicing it.
For fuck sake. We are one year away from even thinking about primaries let alone the actual election, anyone propping him up is not thinking about Trump or Vance.
For fucks sake do you not understand that the midterms will determine how much protection he gets regarding EVER having to face consequences for being a sub-human piece of shit??
Newsom is not running for the midterms or even for governor. The people that he keeps sabotaging are.
he was gaining unnatural amount of msm boosting. noticed how he stopped railing on trump after a few months, it was hurting him, but his billionaire donors told him to stop.
Millions of people
at this point i’d vote for a turd sammich if it wasn’t trump
Yes but you can vote against this asshole and be vocal about it so he doesn’t make it through the primaries.
agreed
Well, the good news is that you don’t have to vote for Newsom or Trump in the Democratic primary. Vote blue no matter who season is here for 2026, but we’re still comfortably in “kick the shitty corpo DINOs to the curb” season for 2028
thank flying sketi monster
That strategy has not worked the last 10 times we tried it, but maybe one more time will do the trick!
bro compared to the last year of trump?
a you fucking blind?
we’ve lost 40 years of progress, congrats on your moral victory
And we lost to Trump. A campaign needs to be more than “I’m not Trump”. Same shit almost lost Brazil to the fascists. “I’m not Trump” is good enough for informed voters, but that’s not enough. You have to reach the uninformed and misinformed too.
An actual well thought out platform would be great, but the oligarchs who own politics would never let that happen I’m afraid.
Newsom, in his veto letter to the legislature, said he was supportive of “protecting sensitive personal information of Californians,” but that a “categorical ban on sharing that information goes a step too far.”
The governor pointed to existing state laws that require businesses to give consumers the option to limit sharing their information and budget constraints that would hinder implementing and enforcing the law.
Newsom also signed a handful of other bills strengthening the state’s privacy rules:
- SB 923 expands the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act to require businesses to delete all personal information they have on a consumer upon request, not just data collected directly from the consumer. Online-only businesses will be required to provide a webform or portal for deletion requests.
- AB 883 shortens the time with which data brokers must comply with a data deletion request from 45 to 30 days. It requires elected officials and judges receive information on how to access the deletion mechanism, known as DROP, to protect their information.
Other data privacy laws still awaiting Newsom’s signature or veto include:
- SB 690 would remove the private right to action for alleged violations under a wiretapping law, allowing just the state attorney general to pursue such legal challenges.
- AB 2561 would prohibit an operating system or application from re-adjusting a user’s privacy setting without consent.
So they now must delete data when requested. Except if they SOLD THAT DATA then it can’t be deleted because it’s already out there. 30 days is fucking plenty of time.
Fucking slimey piece of shit.
but that a “categorical ban on sharing that information goes a step too far.”
Why?
“There’s so much money in selling all that mined data. ;_;”
And for who?
Dance Gavin Dance.
Voters never had a chance
The guy will never take a principled stance.
That’s a safe stance. “We should kill all of the puppies!” Newsom: “I’m vetoing that!”. /s
Banning sensitive data sales = killing all puppies? Got it.
Anything that threatens capital is horror evidently
This isn’t necessary. All you need is to protect people from fraud.
If Amazon tells you that it will sell your data you are completely free to just not use Amazon. If enough people choose not to use Amazon, Amazon will wonder why. If they do any semblance of at all good investigating they will find out it’s because those prior customers were against having their data sold and they will stop selling data.
The government only needs to come in to make sure Amazon is actually telling you it will sell your data, because not doing so is fraud, and the government should protect the innocent against fraud.
As an adult, I don’t need big daddy government telling businesses what they can sell. I only need to understand the situation I’m being presented in its entirety so that I can make my own decisions. It’s my consent, not the government’s.
Classic hegemonist nonsense.
Some days my PTSD is bad and my brain just feels… Slow. Like I’m stuck in molasses up there. Work feels harder. Things take longer to click. Honestly, when I feel like that, sometimes I feel a bit of imposter syndrome; a lot of things in my life rely on my intelligence, and I feel like I just don’t belong. I’m so grateful to people like you reminding me, though, that even through brain damage, I’m still not the stupidest person in the room ❤
GodDAMN claps
That account is less than 10 days old and I already have them tagged as a rightoid. Every thread they’re in, they’re dropping these inane neoliberal/pro-capital takes.
Who wants to place bets on their account disappearing after the election?
Who wants to place bets on their account disappearing after the election?
Or at least when the right Russian data center gets cratered. :3
this is from a month ago.
If this fucking slime ball is the Democrat nominee in 2028 I’ll fucking vote for Trump 3 and the USA will have fucking deserved it. Jail this seditious traitor!
Of all the shit-tier takes, that is one of them.
I wouldn’t vote for Trump 3, but I cannot afford to vote for this terf piece of shit. If this fucker or somebody similar succeeds, it’s over for trans people having any sway over the Democratic party. I will push for his downfall no matter the cost. If liberals throw us under the bus in the hopes we can return to the good old days, burning the party will be the only card we’d have left play.
i never got the feeling he was a feminist to begin with, he straight supports transphobic policies.
If newsom gets the nomination I’m going to stop using the ballot box to voice my opinion. Other boxes are becoming the only option.
I agree that Newsom is a billionaire-class anti-progress piece of shit, but this seems like a “cross the bridge when we come to it” situation. Progressives have a lot of momentum right now and there’s a good chance the nominee in 2028 will be one.
Attention is power in politics. Hating him gives him power. It’s okay to critique and inform, but don’t let it consume you. That’s how trump got traction. If all we can offer to the political conversation is who sucks, then we’re going to wind up with somebody who sucks.
Focus on someone better. Who do you want to win the primary? Start extolling their virtues, spread the word. Who is an ideal candidate?
Hey, I agree that Newsom would be an absolutely unmitigated disaster, but I’d vote 3P instead. I will never vote for a Republican in any US election, ever. Lincoln himself would be horrified at what his party was twisted into, especially in its most recent iterations.
Yes, but if republicans win they’re gonna start rounding us up. The Dems can be influenced. Reps just want us all dead. One is better than the other. Not voting doesn’t send a message, it’s just surrendering to fascists.
The Dems can be influenced.
Tell that to the trans people who wanted an ally in the UK labor party. That’s what Newsom, the New York Times, and all these other terfs want for us. It’s not a good card to play, but if we aren’t willing to make good on a threat, we have no power.
Oh, happy cake day! Do we do that here?
If we don’t, we should!
Ok but the alternative is literally just let the republicans win. Do you have a viable alternative that isn’t reforming the dem party via primaries and running progressives? Because to my knowledge that’s the only way forward that doesn’t involve system collapse which likely kills all the trans people first.
The strategy is keeping terfs from winning the primaries; not voting for them in the general as a real threat is part of that. Besides, corprocrats winning is what will kill the system more than anything. If they prevent reform like the ruling class intends, we will keep getting fascists and they will keep getting worse. If you think Trump is bad, think about what Jewish conspiracy Nazis raised on Nick Fuentes will bring. Without a genuine progressive in the next election cycle, then the Nazis are guaranteed to win in 2032 and do more than if the Trumpians win in 2028.
Ok that’s all well and good far as theory goes but practically speaking that’s not particularly useful and, again, more or less defaults to the republicans winning which is unambiguously worse materially and practically speaking. We hold the democratic party accountable by primarying incumbents with progressives and preventing republican obstructionism. Any other option accelerates the fascism with the vague hope that it’ll somehow foment a global socialist revolution. It’s not really feasible. In fifteen years the fundamentalist ideologists completely overthrew the republican party and yet you all keep arguing we can’t do the same with the dems. We could, if all of us voted in every election. It’s not too late or they wouldn’t be trying to prevent us from voting. Like I more or less agree with you philosophically but you’ve all already given up on change within the system, and that leaves the only option being total destruction of the system. Most of us die before that ever happens. Letting the worst option win is never the right call.
Without a genuine progressive in the next election cycle, then the Nazis are guaranteed to win in 2032 and do more than if the Trumpians win in 2028.
That’s silly, if they win in 28 there won’t be voting in 32. This is our last chance to avoid full fascist collapse. Republicans can never again hold enough power to obstruct a progressive agenda or the country will collapse and the only option for trans people will be to get out. There isn’t going to be a global socialist revolution. The fascists have autonomous murder drones and we all are constantly surveilled. It’ll mostly just get us all killed.
Translation: “Americans, please let actual fascism win and endanger every minority group in the country if the Democrat isn’t perfect.”
No one likes Newsom and I think his chances of being the nominee in 2028 are fading, but if he is I will vote for him.
