While SF mayor, Newsom pushed for abusive treatment of homeless people. It's one of his shticks.
He's an extremely toxic slimeball and it'll be catastrophic if his national political ambitions are realized.
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my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.
I'm not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn't afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one's available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.
but serious addiction isn't new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.
now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.
I'm not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can't afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.
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Surely banning homeless encampments will solve the homelessness problem.
- Create for profit prisons tantamount to slavery
- Make homelessness illegal
- Destroy the economy and make everybody homeless
- PROFIT
Next, we should ban heart disease and cancer...
It's harder to work in the mines with those
Nah, let’s just keep it the way it is and keep the poors illegal, I mean, I feel bad for people with heart disease, if they have health insurance.
Ok sure.
While you're at it, allow cities to commandeer vacancies over 3 months to house the unhoused.
Or is the point to put the squeeze on folks without options or resources to move up economically without providing any solution.
Or is the point to put the squeeze on folks without options or resources to move up economically without providing any solution.
Given Newsom's swing toward the hard right, I'm going with this choice...
And, fuck Newsom. 🤦♀️ 🤷♂️ 🖕
Perhaps we have a brainslug infestation in progress?
Would explain a lot actually...
My money's on more Russian influence.
They don't want them to move up they want them to move out
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Yo, fuck this guy - pivoting to the right? Fuck off.
Pivoting?
So - when did Newson have a Fetterman-like stroke?
Before he was mayor.
When he realized he could get a bunch of money capitulating to and sane washing hard right wingers with a podcast.
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Jesus , this guy looking to join Trump's team?
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.
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).
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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.
Funding is easy to lose down the road but laws against the homeless will sure be there for decades to come.
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.
California will be fine. They just need to succeed.
we need the infrastructure for the unhoused to be housed. where does he expect the homeless to go?
Prison
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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
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Attacking the very poorest of society with all his energy. What a piece of work.
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.
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If you want to get rid of homeless encampments, how about making sure people have a safe place to stay at night?
What a cunt
California is a garden of Eden,
A paradise to live in or see
but believe it or not
you won't find it so hot
if you ain't got the doe ray me.
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.
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