The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.
The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.
He’s been “doing this” for years dude. He dresses it up with fancy language but homeless camp sweeps have been happening in CA for a long time and have been ordered by him through executive order, driven by his rich NIMBY donors.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/07/25/governor-newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-address-encampments-in-their-communities-with-urgency-and-dignity/
Despite surveys in 2023 showing sweeps resulted in police citations as of often as offers for housing he continued with criminalizing homelessness, encouraging local governments to create anti camping ordinances in 2024 (aka criminalizing homelessness)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-14/homeless-camp-sweeps-result-in-police-citations-as-often-as-housing-offers-survey-finds
Flip sides of the same coin. He can play the part because he is basically trump with decorum and slightly different masters. Trump sold out to the extreme right white nationalist fascist crowd, Newsom sold out to the corporate world fascist crowd. If Silicon Valley decides that lgbt support is bad for business Newsom will flip flop (see his appearance on the charlie kirk podcast, testing the waters). He will always back things that fuck over workers and benefit the corporate class.
vote blue no matter who though. Unless it’s someone from the dsa or psl that actually represents your interests of course, then of course the democrat leadership can’t possibly endorse the candidate and will split the vote because they’d rather potentially hand the election to a republican than give you a candidate that serves your interests instead of their donors. But remember, if you don’t vote for them you’re a fucking tankie piece of shit
I’m not saying this is new. It’s just as if he’s trying to undermine himself. He could be a rock star.
Undermine himself with whom? He knows that primaries aren’t honest and that party leadershit decides. He’s trying to appeal to them.
“He could be a rock star if he hid who he was briefly to win the election then went back to serving corporate interests, souring people on the democratic side even more and sending them to the republicans or to not voting at all”
Like listen to yourself. You sound like the victim of domestic abuse. “It’s going to be different this time!”. He’s not going to change honey, you gotta leave and find someone that’s actually good for you
Darling, I’m not voting for him and I’m not falling for him. I just don’t understand why he’s doing that.
Because he loves money and power and the people who give him money and power hate the poor
This is what his donors want.
He could be a rock star if he weren’t who he is. But this is who he is.