Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, regularly sends out emails pointing out the errors and hypocrisies of Republicans in other states. I enjoy them.
South Carolina, Diane…
Where the Republican governor just signed a six-week abortion ban, which he says will “begin saving lives.” All while that very same governor refuses to do anything about the fact South Carolina has one of the highest homicide rates in the country — more than 2x the rate of California.
You can’t make this up.
Today’s Republican party refuses to regulate assault weapons while gun violence is the leading cause of death of kids in America, but will champion the regulation of women’s bodies and take away reproductive freedom.
This is what Republicans want to do nationally.
And worse.
Be outraged.
– Gavin
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I’ve been reading Newsome’s battle field reports, too. I think he may be the only Democrat with any clout actually fighting the spread of the fascist-loving MAGA-Rino zombie movement.
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I am thankful that Newsom has decided to refute the false GOP narratives with actual facts. More Democrats should stand up for what they know is the truth. Otherwise, the repeated false statements from the right get accepted as fact by low information members of the public.
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I wish he’d create more of a national profile. I know he’s a leftist boogeyman to the right, but he has the charisma that could translate on the national stage. We need the next generation to take the mantle.
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yes, we do
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What is the difference between death-by-gun or death-by-abortion?
fyi, As a personal belief, I don’t believe in abortion, but I also don’t believe in this kind of govt intervention
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Primarily, the difference is that those who think that abortion is the equivalent of murder are imposing their own view of the beginning of life on society. A vast majority of those who must have one enter this procedure with great ambivalence. The gun, on the other hand, is trained without regard for life at all upon a person that is alive in the eyes of all of society.
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Gavin for president!!!!
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Here’s Gavin Newsom sprawled out on a carpet in Ann Getty’s mansion (Newsom’s early career was bankrolled by Gordon Getty, son of J. Paul Getty) with Kimberly Guilfoyle, future advisor to President Trump and future girlfriend to Donald Trump Jr.
The man is a ghoul and there cannot not be better choices to lead the country.
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They were married.
What’s the big deal?
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If given a choice, I prefer candidates who are not bankrolled by billionaires and who have some measure of judgment. Including the judgment to never appear in a photograph like that. The man is a ghoul. I’m not a fan, as may be evident. Would never vote for him in a primary.
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Here’s a man who has spent his life working to house the poor, to legalize pot, to support striking workers, to expand access to healthcare, to protect immigrant children, to bring about police reform, to protect women’s right to choose, to end capital punishment, to tax windfall profits, to fight climate change via emissions control, to pass gun control, to protect people from the pandemic, . . .
MY KINDA GUY
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As Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom announced that he would marry gay couples, and thousands arrived from all over the country. The marriages he performed were declared illegal, and he did it again. His head is in the right place. And his heart.
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Completely agree. A great fellow. Smart. Compassionate. Tolerant. Kind. Funny. Hard-working. Decent.
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Wikipedia:
“The San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings took place between February 12 and March 11, 2004, after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom directed the city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and a number of interest groups sued to end the practice. About 4,000 such licenses were issued before the California Supreme Court ordered a halt to the practice on March 11. On August 12, 2004, the California Supreme Court voided all of the licenses that had been issued in February and March.
“The legal dispute over the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples led to the 2008 In re Marriage Cases ruling by the California Supreme Court, which legalized same-sex marriage in California.”
The U.S. Supreme Court approved gay marriage in 2015. Obergefell v. Hodges
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If he and DeSatan/Debacle/DeFascist met on a debate stage, would they self-annihilate, like matter and antimatter? lol. He is like the anti-DeSantis.
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Absolutely! Maybe if Gavin poured a bucket of water on DeFascist, he would melt.
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That record, I think, spells “greatness.”
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Gavin Newsom has made his life’s work using government to improve the lives of ordinary people and of the poorest, most outcast among us. A truly great person.
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And yeah, his father worked for the Getty’s, and Gordon Getty invested early on in Newsom’s wine business, which under Newsom’s leadership (and in sharp contrast to Donald Trump’s real estate businesses) was incredibly successful. More proof that this is a person who knows what he is doing.
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cx: the Gettys
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We already have a crowded field of Groping Old Party candidates for Glorious Leader, including Chernobog, Chris Christie, Benjy Compson, Ron DeSantis, Aleksandr Dugin, Larry Elder, Arthur Fleck, Elmer Fudd, The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Golgothan, Gollum, Nikky Haley, Asa Hutchinson, Foghorn Leghorn, Professor Marvel, Moloch, various slime molds, Napoleon the Pig, Sheev Palpatine, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, Homer Simpson, Agent Smith, Donald Trump, and Lord Voldemort. All have their merits, of course.
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Oh, and Mikey
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Where’s Pat Paulsen when you need him?
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The GOP motto: You’re Free To Do What We Tell You.
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exactly
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King Donald the Wurst
Dumb Donald Trump
sat on his rump,
eating cheeseburgers all day.
He called for his Miller
and brownshirted killers
and hypocrite fundies to pray.
He called for his Barr
to make him a czar
and all rule of law to allay.
And to meet his requirement
that it trash the environment,
he neutered the EPA.
“To switch out democracy
for rank kakistocrasy,
I had but to bellow and bray.
I’ve drawn to my Trump
many millions of chumps
and given sweet Vlad complete sway.”
“I’ll call it a day,” the con man did say,
“I’m still president anyway.”
Then he farted and stood
and called it all good,
and went to a golf course to play.
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I find this highly insulting. A wurst never did anything bad to anyone except for the occasional trots certain old ones seem to induce. But the process of input usually makes it worth it. Wurst it? Even the worst wurst contributes more to the world that the best of the Idiot. I have spent a lifetime getting to know wursts of very variety and I can tell you one thing: the Idiot is no wurst! Now. A fat tub of toxic lard? Maybe.
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I swear, WordPress does what it wants. Never criticize anyone for spelling. I proofread this time for a change. Oh well.
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OK. You make a strong case, Greg. I noticed recently that Colbert described an interviewer of Donald Trump as “Fox News Anchor and Last Ham Cube Left on a Hors d’oeuvres Tray, Sean Hannity.”
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Applies to this one, too
The Seven Wives of King Donald the Wurst
Six wives had he, the Eighth King Henry.
Trump had but three, we’re told, but when he
was twixt and between those he made a great show of,
perhaps he swallowed some four we don’t know of,
for as you most certainly know or have guessed,
King Donald Doolittle must always Be Best.
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There you go again…
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This isn’t my wurst.
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Sneeze: How ideas build, irritate, and explode upon the world, by Seer of the Obvious
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With Donald it’s one unpresidented, syllabolic covfefe after another.
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unpresidented, bigly syllabolic covfefe
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bigly = Trump’s toddler English pronunciation of “big league”
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Trump the hyperbolic bloviator
What’s the difference between Trump and the Hindenburg? Both are flaming Nazi gasbags. One is shaped like a dirigible, and the other IS a dirigible.
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I read all you post, just do not reply much. But please know that you always tough on subjects and facts that people need to recognize. Thank you.
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A lovely thing to say!
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Thank you, John Love.
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