Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.
The ratio was more than 4 to 1. But the state’s most powerful Democrats – including the governor Gavin Newsom, his near-certain successor Xavier Becerra and the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass – have lined up with Silicon Valley billionaires who’ve raised upward of $340m to defeat the initiative.
It’s losing, in a landslide. And we are going to pass one of the worst voter ID laws in the country. Billionaires are going to have a very good Tuesday.
according to who?
Remember this when Newsome runs for president. The guy is from central casting in California. He used to be married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. He’s not a Progressive, he’s not even a Democrat. He’s whatever you need to hear that will convince you to throw away your vote on him.
He is a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing. He probably worked out a deal with Trump to have a phony Twitter beef, so he’d be the frontrunner for 2028, and the right would have a strong candidate among the Dems. Don’t fall for the MAGA lie.
You’re going to get called a Russian Wumao Republican-plant Tankie if you say anything about this in two years
People are already doing that. You can’t criticize Newsome without some fuckwit chiming in with “BuT tRuMp WoRsE”. The candidates aren’t anywhere close to decided yet and people are already acting like anyone who doesn’t tongue Newsomes ass is a russian bot.
We all have to come to terms with the reality that the US government no longer serves its people. It needs to be reformed. Like physically halted by using masses of people to clog hallways and removing former government reps from offices. Removing names and symbolizing. Taking down their websites and nulling whatever rules or laws from the former system which kept them in power for so long.
No one else is allowed to win in our elections. They’re not even remotely legitimate. Everyone is placed in our government by the uniparty. There’s no election that takes place when the people don’t ever get to choose a representative. We’re presented with their options.
It needs to end. If we aren’t filling the streets before Christmas, then we better start.
It has never served the people going all the way back to the founding and before. It has always been the rich and powerful.