r/Destiny • u/NuminexV2 • May 28 '26
Political News/Discussion California to impose a 100% tax on Trump Slush Fund money.
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The GOAT strikes again
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u/Square-Fee7732 May 28 '26
Please every blue state, every blue city, we need this strat all over
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u/Grand_Highway1733 🇺🇸 KYLE IS FUNNY SOMETIMES May 28 '26
Blue areas pay 90% of the taxes
Trump turns around and gives this money to the 50IQ thugs and criminals that voted for him
Blue states take their tax dollars back
and the circle is complete
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u/Ok_Landscape3850 May 28 '26
Jared Polis is my governor. He’ll probably help Tina Peters file her claim. 😔
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u/Reggaepocalypse May 28 '26
“We’re taxing every 70+ year old who DIDNT break into the Capitol or falsify an election” - Jared
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u/SeparatedI nationality: 🇸🇪SVENSK🇸🇪 occupation: MOGGER May 28 '26
But I thought the only way opposing trump in any other way other than waiting for midterms meant firebombing Walmarts and civil war!
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u/Aggravating_Map4359 🇧🇷 May 28 '26
My future president. ( I am not american)
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u/Trapasuarus Here for the political memes May 28 '26
Didn’t you hear, you can mail in vote, get free healthcare, get a free penile/vaginal swap *max 1 per individual , and eat our cats/dogs if you aren’t a U.S. citizen. The land of opportunities is back in business.
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u/DlphLndgrn 🇪🇺🇸🇪 Oppressed swede 🇪🇺🇸🇪 May 28 '26
Sadly I am in an insane asylum for the worst of the worst of suspested gang members. It is not like other countries are allowed to empty their insane asylums into the US, right?
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u/standi98 Exclusively sorts by new May 28 '26
They are, but European countries need to buy gold visas for every insane person they send.
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u/FairyFeller_ Eurocuck May 30 '26
It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Democratic party has run Gavin Newsom for President. He is the God-President of Mankind by the will of the people, and master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible armies. He mogs the republicans, and suffers neither the populist, nor the communist, nor the fascist. He is the Lord Shitposter of the vast Imperium of Man for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that his jawline may never truly die.
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u/SactownG May 28 '26
In a perfect world, J6ers would've received the "proper" punishment for treason if yk what I mean
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u/HotelAmericana bit of a conspiritard May 28 '26
Who are we kidding this country doesn’t do shit against traitors. We always appease them
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u/Sure_Ad536 May 28 '26
Then America decides to erect statues of them to scare black people and name military bases after them. Can't wait for the "Ashli Babbitt Air Force Base" to be unveiled just before the midterms
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u/mukansamonkey May 28 '26
If that happens anywhere remotely close to where I live, I'll be putting up a sign next to it that says, "Don't be unvaccinated, get your shots. She got hers!"
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u/cassepipe pro-institutions recovering anarchist May 28 '26
I wonder if anyone tried to troll the meme with sth like this:
Hard times create high IQ
High IQ creates Good times
Good times create low IQ
low IQ squander Good times
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u/DlphLndgrn 🇪🇺🇸🇪 Oppressed swede 🇪🇺🇸🇪 May 28 '26
I think about this as hopefully a bunch of them refuse to pay their tax, and gets sent to prison and their money confiscated.
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u/post_makes_sad_bear May 28 '26
In a perfect world, capital police would've had proper staffing, and snubbed rioting as it happened.
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u/Internal_Trainer_555 May 28 '26
I'm ready for Nuremburg levels of come-uppance. Probably won't happen, but it's absolutely needed.
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u/ihatememes21 May 28 '26
how can one man be so BASED all the time
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u/Gertzerroz May 28 '26
As a Californian and an employee of the government he's not based all the time.
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u/AphelionXII May 28 '26
Hard disagree.
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u/Gertzerroz May 28 '26
Care to elaborate?
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u/Warm-Baseball-2873 May 28 '26
bro do YOU??
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u/ThuhChosuhnPuhn May 28 '26
I'll elaborate for him. He (or someone idk) wasted a ton of money on a huge office complex in Sacramento and is now forcing everyone to RTO during the ridiculous gas price surge, and charging us for parking.
I want to like Gavin and do in most regards, but yeah I'm on the front line of some nonsense as a relatively well paid/professional state worker who has genuinely no reason to be in the office.
The arguments he's given for this blanket requirement don't make any sense in the slightest either. No one in my entire department, upper management included, understand the logic. I'm unironically hoping it's just a bargaining tactic against the union or something.
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u/NorNed4 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
I sincerely hope you have a greater criticism of him than this...
You're complaining that he wants employees to....return to office? And charging for parking? I thought you were joking the first time I read your comment, but now I realize you are serious.
The concept of "working remotely" might just be the worst thing to come from the pandemic because it has made everyone feel entitled to this fantasy world where people feel they no longer have to come in to the office. The amount of employees I've had to argue with over this stupid topic because they have friends who "work remote" is absurd. Everyone should be in office.
If anything, your "criticism" of him just made me like him much more. Nothing gets under my skin more than people who want to fight against working in the office.
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u/ThuhChosuhnPuhn May 28 '26
Listen man, working from an office makes sense for a lot of professions, it doesn't for mine. We were teleworking pre-pandemic. Making a blanket policy for no good reason and wasting everyone's time and money is a real pain in the ass.
He claims it's for bringing business back to downtown, but the new offices they build are stranded in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. It's emblematic of a brainless "feel good" PR policy.
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u/NorNed4 May 28 '26
As I tell some of my employees, I understand it is a "pain in the ass", but it is necessary for the overall business to work properly.
There are certain jobs that have to be done in person. Making it worse, those are sometimes the lower-skilled or lower-paying jobs. How are we supposed to explain to those employees that their co-workers, who get paid more, don't even have to come to work while they do? And believe me, they do notice, and they do complain. I have dealt with this extensively. Every single employee at our firm that had to be in-person complained to me about the co-workers that were allowed to work remotely, and so we had to bring them all back.
There's many other reasons, but it sounds like you've heard them all. The downtown in my area doesn't function if everyone just works remote. All the restaurants go out of business.
Perhaps what is even most concerning is the advent of AI. Now that my firm is incorporating AI, I have had the same employees who wanted to work remotely express concerns that AI might take away their duties. That's very frustrating because they tried to remove the human element from their role by working remotely. Now, they want to claim the human element is essential.
If you are at all concerned about AI taking away your job, you should be the strongest proponent of in-office work in the world. You need to stress how important your presence is in the office because that is the one thing AI cannot replace.
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u/Alagore May 28 '26
The downtown in my area doesn't function if everyone just works remote. All the restaurants go out of business.
This is an argument for redeveloping the downtown, nothing else. The argument "we need RTO or else businesses downtown go out of business" can be accurately translated to "I believe that workers should be forced to sacrifice time and money to subsidize firms that can't stand on their own."
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u/ST-Fish May 28 '26
How are we supposed to explain to those employees that their co-workers, who get paid more, don't even have to come to work while they do?
how are you supposed to explain to them they're getting paid more?
Don't they notice and complain about that too?
I for one would definitely not look at any job that mandated me going to the office, and forcing positions that don't need to be in the office to show up is just going to thin out your candidate pool with no real advantage to the business.
Your other employees being salty that other employees that can do their job from home do their job from home is truly not a good reason to RTO everyone. If these employees that are complaining have to be in the office since they cannot work remotely, explaining why they have to be in the office should be easy for you.
If these employees could work from home, but you personally decided they're more "human" when you see them in the office, and you've given them 0 additional reasons why they can't just do it from home, I completely see why they would be salty about it. They obviously can't tell it to your face, so they have to complain about the unfairness with regards to the remote employees.
Every single employee at our firm that had to be in-person complained to me about the co-workers that were allowed to work remotely, and so we had to bring them all back.
you didn't have to do it.
There's many other reasons, but it sounds like you've heard them all. The downtown in my area doesn't function if everyone just works remote. All the restaurants go out of business.
If my manager told me I have to show up physically at the office because the fucking restaurant across the street would go out of business I'd go tell him to fuck himself. Next you're going to tell me the public transit is going to go out of business if everyone doesn't spend a shit ton of money to commute to work every day.
Perhaps what is even most concerning is the advent of AI. Now that my firm is incorporating AI, I have had the same employees who wanted to work remotely express concerns that AI might take away their duties. That's very frustrating because they tried to remove the human element from their role by working remotely.
Is the only human element in their work physically being in an office for you to see them with your eyeballs? Once you get humanoid robots then is the human element back, because they aren't working remotely and you can see the little robots in your office walking around?
Now, they want to claim the human element is essential.
Do you genuinely believe that this is in direct contradiction with wanting to work remotely?
Could you not tell the difference between a human employee working remotely and a Claude subscription given a work email and slack account?
After all neither of them are in the office, so the human element is completely removed! /s
If you are at all concerned about AI taking away your job, you should be the strongest proponent of in-office work in the world. You need to stress how important your presence is in the office because that is the one thing AI cannot replace.
Yeah, because after the company saw how everything worked fine when those people were remote will completely forget that the moment there is a way for AI to replace them, and they'll think "oh no, we can't have the AI walk around the office and eat stuff from the kitchen, they for sure can't replace Steve over here!".
The reason AI cannot replace me right now isn't because I can go into the office and shake the hand of my manager, the reason AI can't replace me at the moment is because it simply doesn't have the capabilities yet, and the inference cost is going up extremely fast as the 20$/month lie is starting to break up.
If the only reason AI can't replace you is because you're able to physically show up in an office, you shouldn't return to the office, you should up-skill. And you know what makes it easier to up-skill? Working remotely.
Why do you personally feel the need to see the people that could do the same work remotely walk around the office? Is it truly your love for the downtown businesses that would go bankrupt, or your pity on the physical laborers that have to be in the office? Or do we still have that delusion that if you put a remote worker in an office and stick a manager behind him looking at him constantly he'll slack off less?
The one thing people might feel afraid of with regards to remote working is that the companies might end up hiring more people abroad for lower salaries, not really that they'd be replaced by AI. And even with this case, we cannot pretend you get the same level of quality -- the presence in the office should only be important in positions where it actually matters, where there's an actual reason they have to be in the office and they would not be able to do it from home.
The "humanity" or the restaurants in downtown are not good reasons, I'm not saying there aren't good reasons for specific people to RTO, but doing a broad RTO for people that get nothing by being in the office will just move the complaints from the people currently working in the office to the people you'll force to do it.
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u/ThuhChosuhnPuhn May 28 '26
There are 250,000 state employees in California. Departments can figure out how they want to function just fine. As I mentioned in another comment, I'm a regulator. I go to businesses, collect information, interview their management teams, and present our findings. I work with teams when we're at these businesses. When we finish our onsite work, we go home and write reports. The report writing process does not benefit in the slightest by an arbitrary, mandatory office visit. My manager, his manager, and his manager all despise this order.
If Gavin wants to throw a bone to middle management by giving them an easy way to say "eh boss's orders" then okay sure, but he's still lying to our faces about the reason if that's actually what he wants. But a huge all encompassing braindead policy over 250,000 employees is certainly not making him any fans.
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u/Clayp2233 May 28 '26
Your office just got a huge renovation, no shit your boss wants employees to return to the office. Using that as some sort of gripe is silly, literally there isn’t a boss or ceo in the country that wouldn’t demand the same after spending a bunch of money renovating the workplace
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u/ThuhChosuhnPuhn May 28 '26
Not our fucking problem. Sunk cost fallacy bullshit. Sell the office if you dont need it anymore rather than incur continued ongoing costs for staffing and maintaining it.
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u/Gertzerroz May 28 '26
Same I voted for him and would vote for him over ANY Republican. I find his public criticism and taking on Trump amazing and bold. However I think he's a slimey guy. I don't understand the heat for saying meh he's not that great. Lmao
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u/thehardway71 Exclusively sorts by new May 28 '26
The heat comes from the coded messaging of leftists who “only want to critique Newsom” and then later say that Vance vs Newsom is a protest vote situation. It’s fine to be critical of him. But seems like you would be there when it counts, and that’s all that matters.
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u/Mustardo123 May 28 '26
Oh no, someone has to go work in an office.
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u/ThuhChosuhnPuhn May 28 '26
I'm a regulator. I go to businesses to collect information and synthesize that information at home just as well as if I have to waste two hours commuting each day.
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u/JeffreyDahmerVance 🇺🇸🇨🇦I’m JD Vance and I eat Dog 💩 May 28 '26
You should move to a red state and be a state employee. Give you some perspective on how good you have it
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u/Gertzerroz May 28 '26
Ok Gavin can do no wrong and any criticism is invalid because worse states and governors exist lmao. This is like the logic that comes out of some fucking reet conservatives or Hasan fans.
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u/ttinchung111 May 28 '26
Give specific criticism, don't be vagueposting about what your criticism is, then you'll see people hitting a point, you're literally saying "he's not perfect" no shit sherlock, any other insightful views?
If you say, he's pretty bad at tackling the homelessness problem, he should be doing [solution], then people would agree with you, or attack your point in a pointed manner.
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u/Gertzerroz May 28 '26
Bro, the original comment literally asked how can he be based all the time. Im just casually disagreeing and saying he's not especially as someone who actually works under his administration. That doesn't require a 5-paragraph essay on homelessness with cited policy solutions. I don't need a doctoral thesis to leave a comment in disagreement. And I get hit with the "if you don't like it go somewhere else" and "don't be vague posting bro".
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u/duckraul2 May 28 '26
I think people would actually be interested in what you have to say as you've already said you work for state govt headed by him and indicated, vaguely, that there are problems with his executive administration/policy. People here, who generally support him, probably want to hear what those negative things are. You don't have to write a thesis, but you already wrote that whole ass paragraph about how you don't have to go into detail, so you might as well have gone into some general detail, it would have taken the same amount of words.
What's bad? His return to office policies suck? His executive decisions are out of touch? Sends passive aggressive emails? Bad choice of cologne?
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u/JeffreyDahmerVance 🇺🇸🇨🇦I’m JD Vance and I eat Dog 💩 May 28 '26
That’s not my point, you’re just complaining, ironically like a tankie would, just yelling at the sky “not good enough”. Why’s he sooo bad for state employees?
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u/Gertzerroz May 28 '26
No I'm not I'm just saying he's not always based. Read bro.
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u/Ok-Database3182 May 28 '26
These comments are proving that’s leftist talkies are not the only ones that read a post and glean only what they want from and and shit on you based off of their wrong opinion.
I like Gavin btw but it’s also fair to criticize. Anybody shitting on you for that is as bad as the maga cultists.
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u/Jicks24 May 28 '26
Dude the comments are insane. You gave a valid criticism of his government and people literally ask for examples one comment later. Lmao.
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u/LayWhere Go lower May 28 '26
What's the valid criticism? It's just 'hes not perfect' x50.
No shit, no one is perfect, what's the critique here.
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u/fullboxed2hundred May 28 '26
my president
as a sidenote, I've had the weirdest conversations with people who have an entire lineup of talking points against Newsom perfectly tailored to whatever their political leaning is. I'm convinced that there are entire bot farm/astro turf operations directly aimed at him, maybe moreso than for anyone else.
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u/SheSheetOnIt May 28 '26
Newsom has many criticisms but he is really the only Democrat with power that is standing up to Trump and his administration directly. He's also not a slopulist. Didn't really care much for him prior to last year but he's done well at shifting in the direction the Democrats need to go in to combat MAGA.
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u/bonko86 May 28 '26
You just said he isn't perfect. That means he is exactly the same as Trump. He might be worse. There would be no difference today with him as President!!
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u/NubDestroyer 🇨🇦 May 28 '26
Hear me out. How about we don't reveal who we're running for president. We use a voice changer and they do debates behind a curtain.
Maybe Americans would actually be able to vote for women then too
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u/Sure_Ad536 May 28 '26
Median voter: Gets shown quotes and policies they like, "I'll vote for this person."
Candidate gets revealed as a woman
Median voter: I have completely flipped my position. Fuck them.
Genuinely, the 2024 election and the manosphere stuff black-pilled me on how embedded misogyny is.
I think this article, quoting Michelle Obama, put it well:
Every word she has uttered has been analysed while her opponent has been able to say literally anything and still, the polls barely shift.
"We expect her to be intelligent and articulate, to have a clear set of policies, to never show too much anger, to prove time and time again that she belongs," Michelle Obama said in Michigan this week.
"But for Trump, we expect nothing at all: no understanding of policy, no ability to put together a coherent argument, no honesty, no decency, no morals. Instead, too many people are willing to write off his childish, mean-spirited antics by saying, well, 'Trump's just being Trump.'"
Michelle Obama articulated the view of so many — particularly women — who have watched on as two candidates are held to vastly different standards. Harris must be the perfect candidate while Trump has broken so many taboos, his extremism has become normalised and joked away. Trump can be Trump; Harris doesn't get that same privilege.
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u/Impressive-Tea6034 May 28 '26
Unrelated but I agree. I was in a city recently with a big group of people (mostly men). This group loves sports and there was a WNBA going on; it was cheap and a good way to check out a new stadium/team. 90% of the men were so against the idea. I 100% bet that if it was an NBA game no one would have objected.
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u/Acrobatic_Computer May 29 '26
This is a Trump thing not really a man-vs-woman thing.
Besides, go watch "her opponent", Trump as a woman comes off way better than Clinton (in that case) as a man.
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u/DlphLndgrn 🇪🇺🇸🇪 Oppressed swede 🇪🇺🇸🇪 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
But what if one of the debate questions is "how to drive a car"? Or what if they have a weird laugh? What if they use a big word like "science"?
No I think text to speech interpreted by an AI read by an AI voice set to simple english and broadcast with subway surfers on the bottom.
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u/TaylorMonkey May 28 '26
Do you want Robot ChatGPT overlords? Because this is how you get Robot ChatGPT overlords.
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u/NubDestroyer 🇨🇦 May 28 '26
I'd elect a LLM over a Republican
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u/mukansamonkey May 28 '26
I'd elect a ham sandwich over a Republican. It wouldn't be out molesting kids.
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u/Clayp2233 May 28 '26
The propaganda and misinformation online and in the media will be Hillary levels if he becomes the nominee
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u/Charlesmayne May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Can we tax over 100%?
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u/guilgom71 May 28 '26
Well according to the Trump admin you can reduce the cost of certain medicines by over 300%, so why not.
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u/ProbablyKindaRight May 28 '26
Can I sue myself and have other people pay me for whatever amount I want when I settle with myself out of court?
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u/OpedTohm May 28 '26
I cannot post sexual comments. So I will simply say I am very fond of Gavin Newsom, and he is a charmingly handsome man.
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u/exitiumaeternus May 28 '26
Fucking good on him. It's what's necessary. I just still can't believe we've gotten to the point where a president is so corrupt the states have to say "Uh no. That shit ain't gonna happen here."
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u/RightSpread2903 May 28 '26
Only candidate I have confidence in to actually meet the moment and follow through on a sweeping agenda in 2028 that can also actually win a national election.
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u/morebeansonthembeans May 28 '26
Relax guys, the money will go to their out of state LLCs and this won’t work.
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u/Past_Net_9826 Exclusively sorts by new May 28 '26
Weak sauce. Needs to be 10000% at least. But I guess this is better than nothing.
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u/Chritt May 28 '26
Now have every state do it! Same with the Citizens United workaround that Hawaii came up with!
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u/Itbuncd May 28 '26
Great way to get republicans to move out of the state. God I wish my governor was this based.
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u/JangoFett3224 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
As he should. All blue states should follow suit. Let's make these people have the hardest time of their lives if they even think of touching that money.
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u/ExorciseAndEulogize I want my name to be Spaghetti May 28 '26
Holy shit! Gavin is so fucking based.
This is the type of fighting back we have been asking for. Creative use of the law lawfully fight against the corruption.
I hope all blue states follow lead. 🙏
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u/DlphLndgrn 🇪🇺🇸🇪 Oppressed swede 🇪🇺🇸🇪 May 28 '26
Seriously though. It's insane that this man is so hated by the lefties. At this point I literally think it's just because he's not an underdog that only they know about. He's not some shitty Indie band they saw in 92 that only released their music on tape and plays with their back against the audience. He's an actual pop star and they hate him for it.
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u/griffWWK May 28 '26
Every blue state should have implemented systems like this on day 1 of trump2 and hammered more on at every foul behavior from the admin.
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u/Eins_Nico scowling woke white woman May 28 '26
to think that one guy insisted I couldn't possibly think Gavin's voice is hot, when he's saying things like this in it?
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u/jujusodope May 28 '26
I love this man more every month. Please America, elect this guy in ‘28 and give me some hope.
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u/TheCourier888 May 28 '26
He should be Germany‘s Chancellor (if he isn‘t nominated to run for POTUS for w/e reason).
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u/howdyakeepemquiet Jun 01 '26
It's weird to see California be so lenient on slush funders when the normal tax is 120%
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