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Since a Biden replacement is increasingly likely, I need to start preparing my reasons why every individual alternative besides DotP is bad

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[–] context@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Newsom vetoes bill on transgender acceptance in custody disputes, before signing other LGBTQ bills

https://edsource.org/updates/newsom-vetoes-bill-on-transgender-acceptance-in-custody-disputes-before-signing-other-lgbtq-bills

California Gov. Newsom vetoes bill limiting autonomous trucks

https://statescoop.com/california-newsom-veto-autonomous-trucks/

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill aimed at limiting the price of insulin

https://apnews.com/article/california-insulin-veto-newsom-854bce0003db862f8bc5f916ed909196

Teamsters Condemn Gavin Newsom’s Anti-Worker, Anti-Progress Veto Spree

https://teamster.org/2023/10/teamsters-condemn-gavin-newsoms-anti-worker-anti-progress-veto-spree/

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers

https://www.governing.com/work/gavin-newsom-vetoes-unemployment-benefits-for-striking-workers

California housekeepers won’t get work safety protections after another Newsom veto

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-30/california-newsom-veto-housekeepers-nannies-domestic-workers-safety-protections

Advocates Vow to Fight On After Newsom Vetoes Bill to End Some Transfers From Prison to ICE

https://www.kqed.org/news/11962387/advocates-vow-to-fight-on-after-newsom-vetoes-bill-to-end-some-transfers-from-prison-to-ice

Gavin Newsom vetoes proposed California ban on tackle football under the age of 12

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/gavin-newsom-vetoes-proposed-california-ban-on-tackle-football-under-the-age-of-12

Newsom vetoes bill that would allow condoms to be freely distributed to public high school students

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-08/newsom-vetoes-bill-that-would-make-condoms-freely-distributed-to-public-high-school-students

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So the DNC must be salivating over him

[–] context@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

yeah he's a shoe in

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the article about prison transfers to ICE

CDCR documents recently obtained under public records laws by the ACLU of Northern California show that in just two months last year California turned over 200 people to ICE after they’d served their time in prison.

I’m only getting started going through all your links, and this one already has me pissed off

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72u5q-0R48A

iirc couple of the guys here were from CA and got deported after serving time

edit: maybe i'm misremembering, but it's a similar situation

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

he hunts the most dispossessed game - homeless people, and been filing amicus briefs for today's decision to fine them at sc

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

95% of the US would never vote for a Democratic California governor that looks like he was grown in a Nappa Valley wine cave.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dictatorship of the proletariat

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It means Dictatorship of the proleteriat as opposed to the Dicatorship of the bourgeious most of the world lives under.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I just wanted to add to what the others said that, in Marxism, "dictatorship" is used to refer to a class having near-total control over a society, which has been the case for most societies since late pre-history.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

He's a piece of trash. I hate him so much. He's the exact same type of person who came into the luxury grocery store I worked at every single day during the covid quarantine.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So Gavin is a California Democratic party machine baby. Which means that he is essentially a Republican, but used to say he felt bad about having to dispossess the homeless, and won't outright say that trans people need to shut and commit suicide already. And this is besides cozying up to literal techno-fascists.

On the dimly bright-side, the California Democratic party machine is a very different animal (because California is essentially it's own country) than the DNC/DC party machine. For example, while many DNC-based Democrats are very heavy on their China-bad rhetoric, Newsom is not because California thrives off of trade with China. Besides the fact that California is loathed by the populace of almost every other state (for good and bad reasons), that would be the only other reason they wouldn't choose him, because he does have his own independent power base that exists outside of the DNC circle-jerk.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

he's the devil

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cons: Piece of shit liberal.

Pros: Knows where he is for at least 20 hours out of the day, doesn't have a voting history of opposing the civil rights movement.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pro +: actively used the power of his office as mayor of san francisco to engage in civil disobedience as city policy to further enable civil rights.

con -: corporate liberal through and through with a voting record to prove it.

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hes not a household name, really bad for labor, hates the poors and knows hes better than us (french laundry), has a slimeball vibe and is also unmarried.

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and is also unmarried

don't tell his wife

Ahem...partner.

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

How did I not know this what the fuck

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

During his tenure as mayor of San Francisco, he signed the city’s incredibly stupid sit-lie ordinance into law.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I need to start preparing my reasons why every individual alternative besides DotP is bad

The main way to do this is by reasoning at a systemic rather than a biographical level

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I think he’s more likely to beat Trump than people think. I know “California bad” is strong with Americans but Americans are also shallow and a younger good-looking guy who behaves like a good liberal has a much better shot at winning.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Newsom could easily win just by pointing out that there’s no such thing as an unhappy Californian homeowner, so vote for him and every homeowner will be rich.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

If California had an ID and that ID had shitloads of plastic surgery that looked really good but was still not how baseline humans look it'd be Newsome.

[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

He’s an evil Hitlerite who hates homeless people.