Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
  • Carrots@quokk.auEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    Looks like we should kill the billionaires and then we won’t have to tax them.

    • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
      3·
      29 minutes ago

      The taxes were the compromise, you give your fair share or we drag you out of your gilded mansions and play you alive

  • mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    52·
    52 minutes ago

    I can’t wait to have to vote for this fuckhead because the only other option on the ballot is Grok Mechahitler after the dems help the GOP pass the AI President amendment

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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      44 minutes ago

      Well we have the primaries at least. I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard. For all of Obama problems. He is proof their rigging can be subverted. I just hope at least AOC or someone better runs in the primaries. And if there are several. Those trailing behind if there is a clear leader will drop and get behind them. Because we know the establishment will line up behind Newsom or Harris as soon as they can.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 minutes ago

        I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard

        Why?

        The DNC is controlled by the chair who is accountable to no one.

        Last primary was a shit show because when a Dem becomes the president, he names the chair.

        Biden named Jamie Harrison, whose only political accomplishment was raising a shit ton of money and losing to Lindsey Graham.

        After him trying to shove Biden’s corpse and then Kamala down our throats and failing the ~400 voting members of the DNC got to hold their chair election.

        And they picked someone who spent the last decade running fair primaries in Minnesota, resulting in a purple state becoming progressive, because progressives win fair primaries.

        So, again:

        I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard

        Why?

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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          7 minutes ago

          It’s Loosely a double negative. But to say that I do not doubt. Means explicitly that I KNOW THEY WILL FOR A FACT

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      47 minutes ago

      What are you even talking about?

      He’s term limited for Governor…

      And if you mean 2028 presidential, the only chance any neoliberal has is if the current DNC chair resigns. His entire thing is “fair primaries, and let the voters sort it out”.

      Neoliberals have never been able to win anything close to a fair primary.

      That’s why Hillary had to use Bill’s charisma to get in the White House back in the 90s and hand neoliberals the party. They lost the party well.over a year ago.