Gavin realizing he will never be president, so he is trying to secure his future as a Silicon Valley lobbyist.
he was always there to serve the rich nothing more. even his own father was defending rich people as a lawyer. and thats why he had no influence out of moteray, when he was still in the state congress for a while.
Had me in the first half
Absolute scumbag
Shocking, the guy who was caught at a 2020 dinner party at French Laundry during the pandemic when he had asked Californians to avoid group gatherings for the Thanksgiving holiday.
That’s not great, but if that’s the worst he ever did I can live with that.
It’s not. My personal favorite is his homeless encampment sweeps.
Well yeah. That’s the point I failed to make.
This guy is auditioning for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.
dont think he needs it, the DNC likely determined already. hes just giving himself more exposure so that people vote on him based on recognizability alone. thats also how trump won too, being in MEDIA alot helped him.
I’ve never heard of the MEDIA alot, but that species has alot of members.
It’s amazing how brainwashed people are by TV. Trump was a blowhard business failure, but the TV show made him seem like some kind of decisive business genius, so people voted for that. I wouldn’t be surprised if Zelenski was elected to lead Ukraine because he’d played the role on TV previously. A lot of it is unconscious, so people aren’t going to admit that that’s the reason why, but it has to be a factor.
I’m sure it’s related to parasocial relationships and to stalkers. People think they know someone personally because they see them on TV or in movies, or hear them on the radio, or whatever.
He married Kim guilfoil, really says all you need to know about him
and making this statement around the time her former GF/WIFE is under investigation for accepting bribes. hes there to distract from kims investigation.
The more I hear about that woman the more I think she is/was an escort.
What a cuck
I already had no respect for him, but, somehow, I have even less now. You fucking turd.
So he’s full mask off at this point. I mean we all knew this, but now he’s saying the quiet part out loud.
Feel like an outlier here, but creating a billionaire tax at the state level seems ridiculous, and would actually harm the state. It is so easy to move the money outside the jurisdiction of that state to another when you are that wealthy, so the only effective way to implement would be at the federal level. Can someone help me understand why a state level billionaire tax makes sense?
If it’s so easy to move, why are they fighting it?
billionaires arnt going to live in redstate hellholes like missouris/misssipi, unless its an wealthy community, but they wont do businesses there.
You’re not an outlier, but it’s where the current political climate sits. State governments have to do something because the federal government, headed by a facist, has withheld funds from states it deems enemies.
The difference between trying to get rid of a leech on the government and just sitting there and taking it is pretty clear to me. If they leave… so be it, billionaires don’t create jobs, the companies full of employees do. At the point they become billionaires, they are likely trying their hardest to reduce jobs as well.
But also California is a very nice place to live and people want to live here. It’s not like you can just say “I don’t reside in California” and not pay the tax either. The FTB has the 5th largest economy in the world behind it, it will determine if you have residency in CA or not regardless if you say you don’t. And it’s in their best interest to put the time and effort into proving it for the billionaires that want to try.
Didn’t New York already do it and it proved that billionaires will stay put and not move to a hick backwater just to save a few bucks they wouldnt even notice losing?
What they did is very different. They taxed residential properties not used as primary residences valued over 5 million. The CA tax is a one time 5% tax on the worldwide net worth of billionaires.
Or, and hear me out, the states that they move to could follow suit and completely negate the ridiculous argument to begin with.
Somebody has to do it, and waiting for the death of the filibuster to have anything get done is a terrible idea
Gavin Newsom is a perfect example of what is wrong with the Democratic party.
The one good thing here is he’s made it clear who’s his boss (and it isn’t the people)
I heard kill the billionaires … and ban future tax evasion. anyone else hear that?
Let’s all be clear, this is him campaigning for president.
What, the, fuck. What goddamn idiots are advising Democratic candidates?
Not idiots, or well not just idiots. Representing the interests of the rich is his job with everything else being secondary. This is the default state of a neoliberal regardless of intelligence. The target of this message is American billionaires, not you.
he disappeared for a few months after making those stupid rants at trump, where was he the whole time.
