California Dreaming (of becoming POTUS)

Yup, Newsom is a piece of shit for a bunch of reasons. He's also governor of a state that's had its own National Guard troops illegally mobilized against its own citizens, and he's saying the right things, loudly and clearly.

However.

Since those National Guard troops have been mobilized illegally (the mobilization order from the federal government goes through the governor, even if the governor didn't request it), Newsom has the duty as the commander of the California National Guard to order the Guard to ignore this illegal mobilization. I have a hard time thinking that Newsom and the state legal team don't know this. Of course, the fallout from that needs to be considered very solemnly, but to my mind, weighing that fallout against the effects of what is already happening is a simple measure.

If Gavin Newsom is the source for the claim that Gavin Newsom didn't know the Guard was going to be mobilized and did not want to allow it to happen, the most charitable interpretation I'll commit to is that we don't know the truth. The dude has two faces.
- This is an astute observation.

Yeah remember how Rudy Giuliani got lionized by 9/11 and was able to act like an idiot creep and not actually help constituents for years? The Islamophobia of the NYPD during that time is indicative of how badly this cancer in our thinking has mestastized (and the fact that it is still here all these years later should chill you to the bone).

Can we NOT do this to Gavin Newsom he is hypocritical trash and he doesn't give a shit about the kind of core values you and I value as progressives?

Trump needs a villain who is even less ideologically consistent than himself, who liberals/centrists will flock to leaving progressives isolated because they see right through Gavin Newsom and know his politics are at best an accidental dead end.

Progressives alone cannot win an election. The nature of democracy is that you need to get most people behind you, that includes the ones you don’t like all that much.
- So we get an election between Adolf Hitler and Sheriff James Davis?

I support Newsom right now insofar as putting up any sort of pushback against this fascist shitwittery is good and necessary, especially from elected officials.

If the Dem primary for 2028 means anything, I sure as shit will not be supporting Newsom, because I have a memory more substantial than a walnut.

State violence perpetrated by California or our cities is good but it’s a shocking violation of human rights when the feds do it!

Should have been pre-wrinkled Palpatine on the top.