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California’s governor has become an anti-Trump comedian. It’s 2017 all over again.
(www.theguardian.com)
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Newsom already got the gerrymandering on the ballot, and I don’t see California voters not passing it in retribution for how Trump has treated the state. So why can’t the people he is looking to throw under the bus to get to the national stage say anything about it without being accused of being paid for it? Is your answer to when we’re allowed to criticize Newsom’s transphobia before or after the ‘26 primary?
What about any of the previous comment made you think I was looking for a friend? Do you think queer rights organizations that have operated in the state for decades (quite likely before you were born) were just too unfamiliar with state and national politics, or how to deal with politicians?
How’d that poem go? ‘First they came for the homeless and queers, and I said ‘take them, take them, just spare me!’ and everything worked out perfectly fine,’ right? I’m pretty sure that’s how it went.