In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, the California governor slammed the GOP-controlled Congress and the Supreme Court for bowing to Trump.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he’s “deeply confident” that California voters this week will approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redraw congressional maps on a partisan basis ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
In a wide-ranging interview, the California governor slammed the president’s push for mid-decade redistricting efforts in Republican states across the country, accusing the president of “rigging” next year’s congressional election and warning that Trump “is not screwing around.”
“He’s changing the rules. He’s rigging the game because he knows he’ll lose if all things are equal,” Newsom told Welker. “He did not expect California to fight fire with fire.”
The rules changed massively two decades ago, Democrats finally caught on to the game of Calvinball just now.
When a cheater enters the game and the ref is out to lunch (permanently) you cheat back or you lose and never play again.
Simple as that.
I hated voting yes on 50, but did. I hated it for the anti-democracy framing of society. Gerrymandering seems like it should be a clear violation of Voting Rights. Yet, what else to do. They go low, we go high is just failing the paradox of tolerance. We really need the SC court to say gerrymandering is illegal. Not this Supreme Court, obviously. The previous one, because now it’s too late.
I think the 2024 election was a pretty good example of why you swallow your goddamn pride and vote for the lesser of two evils when it comes down to the wire.
If you can’t do that, you are not an adult and don’t have a firm grasp of what being an adult really is.
You really need reforms in your structure of power and the way elections work. Starting with dividing the current presidential power between a Prime Minister (or Chancellor) and a President.
If that’s what being an “adult” means, then I pray that I die a “child.”
Good news then, the fascists will gradually escalate and “political dissidents” will soon have a one way ticket to murder camps.
Yes, that’s precisely why I didn’t vote for either gradually escalating fascist.
Child steps in to state they have no intentions of doing anything to curb advancing fascism in America and to let us know they have no concept of what fascism is because they consider a party that clearly is not fascist to be fascist alongside an actual fascist party.
Keep living in your parent’s home forever. You won’t survive on your own. You don’t have what it takes.
that clearly is not fascist
Lol, right. The people who were actively supporting genocide, holding alleged migrants in concentration camps, increasing the already bloated military budget to an all-time high, and trampling our rights with the continued use of mass surveillance, “clearly not fascist.”
Even if they weren’t, where the fuck do you think Trumpism came from? The status quo produced him and continuing to sleepwalk towards decline while shutting out any actual leftist vision makes fascism inevitable. The only possibility of preventing it is by forcing the democratic party to change, or replacing it altogether, even if it means making a “tough decision” and accepting the risks of a Trump presidency. Tactically, as well as morally, I made the correct decision and I will stand by that until the day I die.
So in your childlike mind you believe we’d be in the same situation, experiencing the same set of circumstances, whether Republicans or Democrats won?
I’m not even sure what to say to that kind of concentrated stupidity.
I made the correct decision and I will stand by that until the day I die.
Idiots usually stand by mistakes without admitting fault. That’s how they remain idiots.
then I pray that I die a “child.”
Don’t worry. You will.
Being an adult means accepting when you need to make tough decisions and sacrifice.
You are incapable of doing so. So you will remain a child.
Being an adult means accepting when you need to make tough decisions and sacrifice.
I did. Trump will be worse for me, but as any halfway decent person would understand, even death is preferable to committing genocide.
Being an “adult” in your mind means completely obliterating your conscience, becoming a twisted, evil being with no remorse, no concern for the lives of others, and engaging in the worst crimes imaginable.
No thank you, I will never become that, if I live to be 100, I will remain a “child.” And you’d better get that fact through your thick head before you blow another election because you refuse to believe that anyone could actually stand by their moral convictions.
So you’re admitting you’re a dipshit that hyper focuses on a single issue while holding the door open for fascists?
Thanks for proving my point, kid.
That “one single issue” being literal genocide, yes. I swear, it’s like I’ve been transported into some satirical work critiquing the two-party system, you’re literally a self-parody. “One single issue,” christsake, the Holocaust was “one single issue too.”
Found the dumbfuck equating a nation continuing a long-standing agreement with an allied nation that happens to be their most important ally in a specific region of the world to the literal fucking holocaust.
It appears you know nothing about international politics OR the holocaust. That or you like comparing apples to oranges to make a point because you’re not intelligent enough to do otherwise.
Either way, you voted in such a manner to ensure actual fascists take power in America. Because you’re dumb as fuck.
I agree with you but mostly I appreciate you and those in blue states that are fighting back in the only ways you can. I’m just a blue dot in a deep lake of red hoping to see an angry blue sea rise. Although I have voted in every election since i was old enough, my vote has never really mattered or made any difference outside of local politics. I guess what I’m trying to get at is people like me need people like you to make those hard, bold decisions right now. Thanks!
Newsflash Newsom. Rat fucking elections is an American tradition.
No. The rules of the game are now being followed by the lame Dems who have refused to play by the new rules.
Came here to say this. The rules are the same, or rather there aren’t really rules, now we’re just playing the same game.
Which I hate, but understand we need to do it.
The difference is California is doing it right in that it’s asking for the people’s permission and it’s a limited term abuse of power.
Yup.
Important distinction.
Texas bypassed their voters for permanent changes.
California deferred to their voters for temporary changes while the fascists are in power.
Where’s that freedom I keep hearing about, Texas?
Why can’t you conservatives go celebrate cruelty somewhere? Already tired of all this “winning”?
Explain how you came to the conclusion that the person you replied to is a conservative?
“lame Dems”
In the two party system of the USA, either you Endorse the DNC or you’re enabling the GOP, simple as.
Then why do we have primary elections?
To pick the candidate on the ticket for the party you endorse.
Doesn’t that imply that a Democrat might find another Democrat lame, and not vote for them, while still supporting the party?
If the DNC lose any seats then a Republican wins and the world is a worse place.
If a Democrat doesn’t win the nomination then they aren’t a Democrat candidate.
There is only one morally acceptable situation where you don’t vote for the DNC: a second Bernie Sanders is the leading candidate in polls, because a Republican is always Always ALWAYS worse.
Lol. I’m no conservative.
