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submitted 1 day ago by TRAHR@quokk.au to c/politics@lemmy.world

Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.

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[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 3 points 41 minutes ago

But I was told that voting Blue No Matter Who was the way to protect my trans friends, now what do I do? /S

Dearest ShitLibs: as of today, September 23, you have 160 days remaining to find a candidate to nominate who isn't a genocidal ghoul and won't throw trans people under the bus. If you can't manage that, then you don't get to pretend like the people who've been saying this for a decade now are somehow betraying you and the nation by not voting for whatever Wall St friendly monster you've allowed your party to nominate.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 hour ago

He wants to be your president, wooooo! Asshole. Tried to force state workers back to the office, too.

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago
[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

He would be really upset about you saying that if he could read.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, the lead sponsor of the bill, noted 18 governors have “signed identical provisions into law without fanfare”

DNC voters when they let this guy through and lose again:

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 17 points 15 hours ago

I suspect that earlier in his governorship he was willing to go along more with the Democratic legislature because he knew it would not risk his re-election. Now that he has his eyes on the presidency he is going straight down the middle, which these days is basically the Right.

[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

which these days is basically the Right

By European standards, the American center is on par with AfD, Örebro, and Borgernes Parti. Gavin Newsom is a right wing fascist.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 32 points 18 hours ago

Newsom is a neoliberal. Neoliberals are conservatives. He is controlled opposition. He will try to trick the public into believing he is progressive in 2028. He is a pathological liar and conman just like any other conservative.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 13 points 16 hours ago

The Democratic party has put us in this position and for that, they have my deepest disappointment.

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 points 39 minutes ago

If they still have your vote they don't have a single molecule of a fuck to give about your disappointment.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

This is why I don't want him to run for president. He is not a progressive.

[-] Postimo@lemmy.zip 22 points 17 hours ago

I mean this isn't even just not progressive, this is collaboration with fascist states to do fascism.

[-] Binette@lemmy.ml 17 points 17 hours ago

Once again, the only thing leftist can be reprimanded for is being right too early.

[-] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 26 points 20 hours ago

I can't wait to get yelled at by democrats when i refuse to vote for this shit head in a few years.

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 9 points 14 hours ago

Just one more neolib bro! We'll get someone worth a damn, you just gotta support one more shithead I promise!!

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago

Hopefully he doesn’t make it past the primaries. Unfortunately if he does and he’s up against a MAGA Republican, there’s only one clear choice.

Go help campaign for progressive candidates before the primaries! Come November 2028, it may be too late.

[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

Unfortunately if he does and he’s up against a MAGA Republican, there’s only one clear choice.

I even held my nose and voted for Harris, but "stay home and don't vote" appears to be the only clear choice here. Newsom vs. MAGA is just MAGA vs. MAGA. When Newsom was imitating Trump on twitter, all I could think was "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." I don't think it's too much to expect the Democrats to have learned something from the 2024 elections; they can ignore progressives, but progressives can ignore them too, and then the whole country suffers.

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 points 37 minutes ago

Go help campaign for progressive candidates before the primaries

Please, everyone who thinks the Democratic Party can be saved, to do this. It will convince you faster than anything else I know of that the party isn't salvageable and that party leadership is just as awful privately as the other guys are publicly.

[-] edible_funk@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Republicans deserve to be yelled at, and if it's newsom or vance and you choose vance by not voting, you're a republican and deserve to be yelled at.

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 points 36 minutes ago

Blindly partisan loyalists deserve to be yelled at.

I don't need to do any mental gymnastics to make that apply to the people I'm applying it to.

Your guaranteed vote no matter how awful the candidate is is the reason the candidate is more awful every cycle.

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[-] pamparana@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

This guy is also horrible but the bar is so low these days.... The democratic party is also responsible for the mess we are in. They stopped being a party of the people long time ago. Need to purge the Schumers, Pelosis and Newsoms.

[-] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago

Basically he said that he thinks this should be left up to the governor, whoever that is, and no matter how righteous and well intentioned, the issue shouldn’t be decided for all time this way, eroding future governors’ authority.

What a spineless position. Why pass any laws at all? Why not leave everything up to the whims of whoever is in office?

Doesn’t the legislature decide issues all the time and enshrine those decisions for the future in law? Isn’t that what they do? Why the fuck should extradition for providing healthcare be any different? Isn’t he “eroding the authority” of the legislature in saying no, we should leave this as governor’s discretion, just in principle?

I’m not just hating Newsom reflexively here. I seriously don’t understand his argument, despite trying.

[-] wpb@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago

Who needs the GOP when the dems are like this?

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago
[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 35 minutes ago

Those people are cheering this decision. Or would be if their media bubble allows them to find out about it.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

What were the provisions of the bill?

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

You could try reading the article...

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[-] DidIReallySayThat@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago

This is why I dont want him as a presidential candidate. 😒 We cant allow people to get hunted down so his chances of winning are better. MAGA wants to force facism upon us and I'm not willing to let establishment dems move their moral compass.

Mark my words, he would NOT hold anyone, including trump, accountable. He and the other paid-fpr establishment dems would say, "Oh, we need to move on as a country." No we don't, we need accountability, STARTING with the dems!

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[-] Yggnar@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago

"Governor vetoes bill that would limit the powers of the Governor."

I'm so shocked.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 21 hours ago

I sincerely hope that a progressive governor replaces this shitbird. Newsom might be better than any given member of the GOP, but that bar is in hell.

[-] redcyberdragon@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago

If he want to make it through a primary, he will have to cheat. I hate Newsom

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

No he won't, if he's chosen as the new Annointed One then the party leaders who should be impartially managing the primary will cheat for him, just like they did for Hillary, Biden, and Harris.

If he isn't, no amount of cheating on his part will be able to overcome the party's cheating on behalf of whoever the donors have selected.

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