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California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said the governor was denied entry into a venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, after being invited to speak at the event due to "pressure" from the Trump administration.

Newsom had been scheduled to speak with Fortune at the USA House, Davos, a privately organized event, at the World Economic Forum, which has been recognized by the U.S. government as the nation's headquarters in Davos.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 102 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

I would one thousand percent prefer Newsom over Trump and I almost guarantee Newsom wouldn’t send his brownshirts into red states to shoot mothers.

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What if the mothers were homeless?

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 9 points 2 days ago

"Now we're talking"

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't humanize the people neo-liberals don't care about like that!

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Don't humanize the ~~people~~ statistics the neo-liberals don't care about like that!

FTFY

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Homeless or trans he is happy to arrest or shoot for existing

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean a lot of us have been voting blue no matter who for our entire adult lives and things keep ratcheting right into Nazi land

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been voting that way too. I question it often but haven't changed my mind yet.

I might have an issue with "vote blue no matter who" were it not for the fact that the morons around us are voting by the tens of millions FOR Nazi land!

They had the opportunity to vote for the center-right corporate-friendly administration that will probably not get much progressive stuff done because they have the same billionaire donors.

But no, they voted for the idiotic criminal self-labeled dictator THREE TIMES! They cared more about who could get hurt (LGBT, minority, female, "other") than whether we could actually improve society.

The DNC shares a ton of blame too. I don't mean to leave them out of it. I hope that some young progressive voices can drag the party to the left. It would be great to not be forced into a two party system in the first place of course, but I worry that the only way such a change will happen any time soon is that a lot of people die and then the survivors write new rules.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The democrats just voted to give ICE more money. They always do this and then we ratchet right into Nazi land… I’m getting pretty old and this always happens. I’ve watched it my entire life the democrats don’t ever do anything to stop the evil. They enable it every time

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. Americans need to do something else because there isn’t any voting their way out of this. Keep voting democrat, but know that it wont actually fix anything. It’s not meant to.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

The point isn't to keep voting for democrats because they will save us.

The point, given we are forced into a two party system, is more about trying to take over the party most of the time while also voting against the outright nazis in general elections.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Newsome is going to enable the tech billionaires and Israel so basically we will keep marching in lockstep with project 2025 with funny tweets. He has been fighting the one time 5% billionaire tax proposal in California and he vetoes everything that upsets shareholder profit in California.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

with funny tweets

Those are from a team of social media savvy folks. He's demonstrated that he doesn't always understand his own tweets.

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You are right, we need new politicians and a new political system, not Democrats in power. Go get em tiger!

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Our standards have fallen so low

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do respect how being spit on is how respect is defined. - RTJ

https://youtu.be/bd7fb5oQhVg

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they are homeless or trans, Newsome is happy to arrest or shoot them.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He broke the marriage equality impasse. Without him I might not be married.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He protects LG rights and maybe BQ, but he has consistently vetoed T rights. I'm straight AF so this doesn't affect me directly, but it affects my friends, so I care that he doesn't.

To be clear, I voted for Newsome, because the Democratic party didn't give me a choice. I'd primary him if I could.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but why is he the alternative we should bring up?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Because he's the only one with any political power.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

Yet without popular reform, which he is constitutionally opposed to, they can't win. Your lesser of two assholes arguments has no answer to the fact that these status quo democrats cannot reliably win. Now with republicans cheating in so many ways, that's especially true.

He had his chance in 2024 and he declined to stand up and take the election.