One thing I’ve learned about California politics is that newsom has frequently vetoed bills that passed with an OVERWHELMING majority in the state senate/assembly and the legislature typically has significantly more than enough votes to override his vetoes.
So why don’t they do it? Literally because of precedent. They don’t do it because that’s just the way it has always been done and they’re afraid to veto because they don’t want to make the governor look bad.
Elected representatives will go as far as criticizing the governor for his vetoes but they refuse to ever do anything about it
Could also be they only pass that way because they know he’ll veto it for them
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They don’t do it for the same reason Saturday morning cartoon villains never truly get defeated
So why don’t they do it?
Optics. It’s valuable to be seen supporting something that you don’t support, but a material proportion of your constituents do. And you’re comfortable supporting it because you know isn’t going to get signed. Politicians do this sort of thing all the time. Gives them the opportunity to tell voters “Hey, we tried, we just didn’t win this time. Also… need more money.”
or there’s a mutually beneficial relationship where newsom is the villain-of-the-week, the scapegoat that all blame can be placed on. The representatives can have their cake and eat it, they can vote like a progressive and never risk actually passing any progressive reforms. Win-win.
they’re gonna add means testing (you have to submit proof of open source software contributions or a new hyperpop single each month)
Why not just add a line that premiums can’t go up, seems obvious, lazy capitalists will never go for innovative solutions
bbb…bbut the profits! Have you thought of the shareholder’s profits‽
you filthy commie!
Are there any exceptions to him throwing trans people under the bus every single chance he gets?
Here we see a liberal in their natural habitat: trying their damndest to apply friction or resistance to anything good happening.
But that’s all just setup. The punchline to all this happens weeks or months later when they just start behaving like they’re leading from the bleeding fucking edge.
I fucking hate this guy
plumpjackass
OTOH his social media manager made fun of Trump in a way liberals like, so I think it’s a wash
Oh wow so he’s now the enemy of trans people 🙄 this kind of thinking is why trans people can’t get hrt right now. But sure, Kamala laughed funny.
Only a 5y account could get away with this comment
Wait, I could have been doing ragebait bits this whole time without being banned?? 🤯 Holy moly…
We have a quota, you get to have one ragebait post every 5 years + another bonus post at 7, 12, and 17 years.
Makes sense. I was the MFer that started that posting war over veganism (the second one) with a rage bait post 4-ish years ago and somehow I managed to not get banned. The quota thing explains It, good thing I didn’t push my luck and start another struggle session about antinatalism a little while later. SURELY I would have been banned if I did that 😁
It’s so funny being a newcomer to this site because how did yall have two wars regarding veganism that I’ve never heard of
History is written by the victor. Before V(egan)WII, this site was far from unified in the position that veganism is something we should all strive for. Mind you, most of the site is still not vegan, but we won the ideological battle and it’s the Hexbear “party line” if you will, for whatever that’s worth (not much).
I’m high af and had to double check I wasn’t on TikTok 10/10
Lmao that’s exactly where I saw a comment like this
there’s no “right” way to laugh at genocide
I think peter griffing could pull one off
Flawless bit from @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net lol.
I thought she lost because she ran a weak campaign and skipped the whole primary process.
fuck every liberal hyping this demonic mother fucker upWhy would premiums go up? There might be an initial jump in costs, but if people are using the same amount of hormones as before then it should even out over time.
Without means testing, people would just start getting high off HRT recreationally. Good things aren’t possible sweaty.
Hey its “purity testing” to criticize this because I like him and because … because just because i say so. /s Hate this scumbag.
either hrt is unfathomably expensive or everybody’s doing it
