President signed the legislation championed by late senator Lindsey Graham last month but has waived the restrictions as they were due to come into effect
Maybe “the West” no longer exists. There’s just the US and then there’s Europe, and each of them is doing their own thing.
Newsom seems more sensible than Trump. Presumably if Newsom does win the presidency in 2028 then he would be more supportive of Ukraine, like Biden was.
Yeah, well, he just backed a measure to kill the billionaire tax in California, and took it a step further trying to make it illegal to make other billionaire taxes. Fuck that guy, if he makes it to the general election, I will vote for him, but I will not forget that he’s a billionaire stooges.
We need real progressives, not fucking neoliberals in sheep’s skin, or we will get Trump 2.0 one day and it will be even worse than it is now. People want real change, not another Joe Biden, or Obama.
We got MAGA because people are ignoring the working people’s plight, and acting like the world is all hunky dory, and we aren’t killing the planet under a capitalist system rigged against anybody not rich.
But, I will hold my nose and vote for him if he makes it to the general bcz I’d rather not go full Hitler. We already might get that. 🤷♂️
I think I read some time ago that Newsom’s argument is that a national billionaire tax would be better and more effective than a California billionaire tax.
But yeah maybe he should just support both: a California tax and a national tax.
It is pretty obscene that billionaires can spend nearly limitless money trying to defeat a proposal for them to pay just a little bit more in tax; a tax which could save the lives of the most disadvantaged people in society.
Yeah, well, too little too late. He also passed a ban on 3D printing. I don’t remember the specifics of it, but it was something to do with ghost guns, but we all know the real purpose is to prevent people from making replacement parts for their stuff. Right to repair is so fucked, and he’s made it worse for no reason.
There are a lot of reasons to hate the guy even though he’s done some decent stuff.
I don’t just blindly support candidates, and I never will. I want a Mamdani to run for president, and congress. We need people who actually care. Not people who just want power. The entire world is lurching right now bcz of the manipulated online discourse, and our idiot neoliberal polices from the past 40-50 years. It’s like clock work, the generation that experienced fascism dies, so we decided, maybe let’s try it again. Maybe it’ll work this time.
Fair points. I’m British not American, so I’m sure you know a lot more about Newsom than I do. I’ve seen a couple of interviews with him but that’s about it.
If 2028 is Newsom vs Vance and Newsom wins, I would hope that would improve the world. Maybe a Democrat who more boldly stands up for ordinary (non-wealthy) people would be better, but whether they’d get enough support from Middle America to win the presidency, I don’t know.