Look.
As a Californian, I was not a fan of Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy. I really feel like she did not align with me on some pretty fundamental issues and I wish the Democrats had had an actual primary in 2024 so that she could have been soundly trounced by better candidates like she was in 2020.
Kamala Harris was a candidate that I was *at best* lukewarm on.
Okay? Okay.
Now. Democrats.
If you dipshits run Gavin Newsom in 2028 or pull any stupid fucking tricks to give him a better position in the primary (like the stupid fucking trick you lucky assholes pulled by not putting support behind a democratic candidate for the recall as a safety measure), i am going to start committing thematic crimes and/or assembling a killdozer.
I was not particularly fond of Kamala Harris, but I fucking *loathe* Governor Gavin "Homeless Sweeps" Newsom. Kamala was not great, but she was also not "using the destruction/disruption of a homeless encampment with her own two hands as a photo op" bad. She was not "I wouldn't want my daughter playing college sports against a trans woman" bad. She was not "inviting Charlie Goddamned Kirk on the first episode of her new podcast to ask advice about running to get approval from fucking republicans" bad.
If, in three years, I have to listen to a bunch of democrats telling me that there's no better choice and I have to vote blue no matter who and the blue that they are handing me is *this motherfucking ghoul* I am going to end up in a federal prison so if you happen to be a democrat and you happen to be reading my blog I would really like it if your party could run better candidates than this piece of shit so if you hear people starting to mumble about how "Well maybe Gavin Newsom has some good policies, he's going to be better for LGBTQIA folks than Vance and he's got experience running a big state" please let them know what a tremendous piece of shit he is so I don't have to walk away from super tuesday and hear that this greasy fuck is the lesser of two evils.
You know how after the fires in January Trump said "we're going to release the water, that water from up North, it's going to come down through the state, we're going to bring it to the cities, instead of giving it to the fish - which are bad fish anyway, too small - that don't need our water, we're going to open the dams, we're going to fill the river" and everyone who knows anything about water infrastructure in california promptly went "what the fuck are you TALKING about are you INSANE that is an awful idea"? You know, that thing? That's what it feels like to see people discussing Gavin Newsom as a national candidate.
Here he is getting ready to throw away the place where somebody sleeps while running a state that has more than twice as many unhoused people as it has shelter beds. This CNN article about Newsom's order to dismantle homeless encampments ends with a quote about tents like the one the governor is throwing away here:
“Every time that you like regain a tent and maybe some blankets and a couple of outfits and just get enough stuff around you to start to really feel – I’m not going to say normal – like you have a safety zone, it’s gone,” he said. “Even though it’s a tent and a few things, as soon as you get to that point, in that moment, it’s wiped out again… Nobody’s asking the question. The voters, the people. Where are the people going? If they’re not in my neighborhood now, then whose neighborhood are they going to if you don’t have enough shelter beds in your city?”
I personally know people who died after Newsom ordered encampment sweeps. I fucking hate this guy.
