Crazy how California is speed-running a transition from liberal to left to Authoritarian almost as fast as the Federal government is transitioning from conservative to right to Fascism.
What other examples can you give? As a California resident I think your comment is bullshit.
Newsom was always a slimy neolib. He was just the lesser evil. The same story plays out constantly all over the US thanks to our broken two-right-wing-parties system, in which both parties are owned and operated by self-serving billionaires.
Title is a bit missleading. He’s also setting out $3billion for homeless facilities. Better than nothing, he’ll probably criminalize homelessness even more than it already is at the same time.
I doubt the $3 billion will do much to reverse the damage California has done with their prison machine, cost of living crisis, and under funded public services. Unless they address the underlying issues the problems are not going to go away.
Yeah that $3 billion won’t do squat. California spent $24 billion over a five year period and didn’t track any of the money, how it was spent, or the outcomes. It’s a safe bet that most of the money went to contractors charging extortionate fees for services while providing almost nothing in return, and probably quite a bit landing in the pockets of local politicians. It was basically a big scam to further enrich a bunch of greedy parasites. A few low-level idiots were charged with fraud and embezzlement of like $400k, but that doesn’t even scratch the surface of corruption involved in that whole scheme.
Funding is easy to lose down the road but laws against the homeless will sure be there for decades to come.
Dude is weird
I shouldn’t be shocked at how swiftly he transitioned, but still, I am.
The sun beams down on a brand-new day No more welfare tax to pay Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light Jobless millions whisked away At last, we have more room to play All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Efficiency and progress is ours once more Now that we have the neutron bomb It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done Away with excess enemy With no less value to property No sense in war but perfect sense at home…
Jesus , this guy looking to join Trump’s team?
I came here to say this sounds like something Trump or DeSantis would do. Disappointing it is Newsome. We need leaders with solutions, not bigger prisons. (I’m not sure what I would do, but I’m also not the Gov of California hoping to be in the Dem shortlist in 2028).
I’m trying wrap my head around the possibility of voting for Newsome just to keep whoever the Nazis nominate is really painful.
I already did it for Harris, Biden, and Clinton.
I mean, they’ve been trying other solutions and they obviously haven’t been working. Citizens don’t like living near these and this issue is rallying people to the right. I get that banning and sweeping sucks and is just moving people around, but if that ends up moving people from a highly visible area to a less visible area then it can go a long way for local businesses and tourism.
So hide the icky poor’s away so people with money don’t get bad feelings when they go on vacation and businesses can make more money. How very humanitarian of you.
Welcome to how the world works. Citizens like clean places to live
And you don’t even notice that you only include one group in “citizens”.
Would you like to know more?
Sounds like you’re insinuating that my viewpoint is homeless people are not citizens which is just not what I said.
his ex; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhFks_9faQY
his current wife; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Siebel_Newsom
Siebel Newsom was registered as a Republican until 2008, before re-registering as No Party Preference. Prior to registering as an independent voter, she accidentally registered with the far-right American Independent Party, before correcting her party to “decline to state”.
I think yes, yes he is.
“Make it invisible, that will surely solve the peoblem”
What a cunt
He setup the conditions for San Francisco to actually do this. He just wants more cities to do it now.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our 48th President (whether we want him or not)…
Not going to happen. Not because the conservative Democrats won’t be able to hoodwink enough primary voters to believe the highest priority is accommodating what they think their shittiest neighbor could (but will not) tolerate, but because in doing so they’ll lose the voters they actually need to win and Don Jr. will ascend to the throne.
You are overlooking the most valuable thing that Newsom has, that makes him even more qualified to earn enough votes to win: a penis.
Unfortunately, if you don’t have one, you can’t get elected right now.
Lol.
So - when did Newson have a Fetterman-like stroke?
When he realized he could get a bunch of money capitulating to and sane washing hard right wingers with a podcast.
I hope he has one that is substantially worse
Yo, fuck this guy - pivoting to the right? Fuck off.
Pivoting?
we need the infrastructure for the unhoused to be housed. where does he expect the homeless to go?
Next up in 2025, the resurgence of the Hooverville
Trump Towns… Donaldvilles…
Prison
He has tried nothing useful and is all out of ideas.
I don’t think the first part is true but unfortunately I agree on the second part. The west Coast in general has been struggling with this for a while and the compassionate approach hasn’t shown the promised results. Maybe it technically is, but visible homelessness is what gets people elected.
The solution is so simple. Its two pronged. Get them a place to live. Help them with their problems. Its what happened in this country until a republican took apart the system that was designed to do that. It had its problems but the solution shouldn’t have been the abandonment of the national mental health system. This homeless problem is 100 percent tied directly to the utter failure of all politicians who ever supported cuts to the mental health system.
The reason they do it is also simple. They are terrified that everyone will know how bad they are on the inside. Not realizing that most of us already know.
Honestly you lost me at the first sentence. It’s very obviously a complex problem and to suggest it’s simple is just demoralizing to the dedicated civil servants that work so hard to fix it.
And homelessness has always been a problem, I feel like generally people fall into this rosy recollection to a time where it was far harder to document it
Honestly you lost me at the first sentence.
You seem to think that matters. It isn’t complex. Its simple. The solutions are simple. By trying to over think the solution you lose sight of the goal. You are commenting without really knowing the history of this subject. Homelessness is a epidemic now due in full to the destruction of the public mental health system. I know this and nothing anyone says will change that. I watched for years as every time my states budget came up they cut the funding.
I watched as those I worked with had to make do with less. I watched people who were getting help to keep them stable lose coverage. The people who would have been institutionalized before the 80’s were let loose onto the streets. Frankly the complete lack of understanding is the problem we have with the current sad state of events. Coupled with the outright fear many of the worst minds in our society have for mental health in general its lead us to this path and denying that just guarantees the problem will not be solved. Those minds gravitate toward power. They hone their masks to cover their true nature and get fools to vote for them. They cast blame and over complicate a rather simple matter as far as solutions are concerned. They fear exposure more than anything and think what they are doing is the best thing for them. Not for those fools who vote for them. Just for them.
Don’t perpetuate the lie that the homeless situation is complex. Its simple. The people who are victims of it are complex but helping them isn’t.
