specific how? the same as when I say Donald Trump - the felon in cheif, is ruining democracy, grifting along the way, turning on our allies, ruining our ecomonomy, ignoring rule of law thinking he is above it?....I could go on and on....but you know all this
Opinions are not facts. In fact, opinions are like assholes. That said, people are free to go or stay. Most would rather stay, but they cannot afford housing. This is partly due to greedy landlords and partly due to supply and demand. That's capitalism for you. I recomnend studying Economics.
Itβs still a great State with the 4th largest GDP in the world, the most culturally diverse population in the nation, forests, deserts, oceans, rivers, lakes, wildlife, compassionate and intelligent people. Youβre just envious, full of sour grapes, MAGAt troll.
Awesome keep up ignorance CA is no longer a great state and have zero clue what CA has become. Funny how if the so call left doesnβt like ones thoughts or opinion they automatically box someone into so called mage. Shows YOUR IGNORANCE.
What has it become in your mind? I still donβt think you should be just commenting on everyoneβs post. If people are happy with Newsom then so be it. Youβve voiced your opinion! We know you donβt like him!
More people have commented on my posts than I did. Sorry you do not like my very few honest free speech comments. Sorry you are not well informed about CA.
You never gave anything specific just that Gavin has ruined everything. If the majority of California thought that way we would not have voted for him three times. You try to recall him and we voted for him again.
California is still a great state, wonderful to live in full of beauty and fun! I have been Californian all my life and I have been all over the nation; California is the only place for me. BTW, if you donβt want to be mistaken for a MAGAt quit βsoundingβ like one. Youβre so miserable that you donβt know beauty from ugly and thatβs pitiful.
So unless a comment fits your thinking someone is whatever you chose to call them. Yep exactly fitting for limited thinking. CA is beautiful geographically, sadly beyond that it is lost. Sadly you have a very closes thought process and there is NO beauty i that.
I have lived here in California since 1965 and I still love it. Every single person I know who moved away is sorry they did. Ronnie Reagan did more damage to California than anyone else.
you keep referring to people who don't like your comments as free speech haters. No it's thoughtless haters they are responding to You free to be hateful and angry, but you're only hurting yourself. Try a little self-forgiveness like CeeMcD also needs
The majority donβt agree with you. So if you have problems living in California, perhaps you should seek out a different state that is more aligned with how you want your state to be run.
People say this often, my aunt included. Hates newsom but why? Whatβs been destroyed. I donβt get it. California is awesome. Expensive yeah but so is Oregon
He's done beautifully with CA. Along with VT and Oregon, it's the best place in the U.S. It also has the 4th biggest economy in the world. Phooey to that comment.
Thank you,Aaron for arranging this timely conversation with Gavin Newsom. Energizing and inspiring. We need hope. Thank you , Gavin for your words of encouragement. Still in this fight!! Letβs GO!
How I wish he was MY governor - but we (in VA) are stuck with Youngkin, a tRump wannabe. Maybe we can get Ralph (Northam) back - but I doubt it. He was kind and honest, too.
I live in Des Moines. Iowaβs governor Kim Reynolds is the least popular governor in the country. She is a trump sycophant and has plunged IA into a deep red hole after having once been a progressive state. Deeply embarrassed of my native state. π
Just finished watching it live it was awesome.Thank you Aaron and Governor Newsom really appreciate the both of you for everything youβre doing for us.π―ππͺππ―π―πππΎ
No you are totally allowed your free speech. That's what makes the country great and I hope you realize that that very right, is in danger right now! That the way of life that we all have enjoyed is on the verge of being lost. So even though you may not like Gavin Newsom, at least he is out trying to preserve democracy and to stand up to an authoritarian government. And I'm sure some people are unhappy with politics in CA but there are millions who are happy to be living there.
Glad you appreciate free speech, but to think Getty boy Gavin is standing up for any freedom, maybe the tooth fairly will truly leave a toothless child a treasure.
You have yet to elaborate on any thing that has caused this destruction to California that you claim. Just give one example of a very specific thing that Gavin has done to destroy California. You come on here and itβs all heβs destroyed California, but how?
Yes. I do live in CA. I was just wondering. I think you have every right to say what you need to say. I was just wondering I see a lot of comments being made and at times it is from people WHO do not live in CA.
Tara with you living in CA you should understand the Getty boy reference and how it has been destroyed. Look at regulations coming down the pike and how broke it really is based on wasteful spending. A few yrs ago even Jerry Brown spoke of some of Newsomβs poor spending choices.
Definately get the Getty Boy reference and I agree with you, there is a lot ALOT of wasteful spending being done here. Even if he decides to withhold the Federal monies that we send, being a donor state, I don't think that monies will be allocated where it needs to go and where it is needed. There is so much that needs to be fixed before we should even go that route and that will take years to fix.
Heβs still avoiding any accountability for the rights and safety of transgender people, who are also being targeted by the administration. Itβs definitely alarming.
It was even before this whole deal, with him going on podcasts with Charlie Kirk and agreeing with him on some very transphobic things he said during it, and even caving into some Trumps demands over trans athletes. Don't worship political figures, of any party.
You can still do both, without throwing different minority groups under the bus.
On the other hand, I do appreciate Newsom for standing up for what's right and fighting Trump doing blatantly wrong and illegal things. At the same time, not blindly supporting people is important, that's how we get things like Maga w/ Trump.
Iβm not blindly supporting. I am not happy with Newsomβs opinion on trans people.
But Trump is the front and center threat right now. We get rid of this regime and we get rid of 75% of the problems when it comes to the rights we are fighting for - including for trans people.
Thank you for clarifying, I took your original message as ignoring that issue. I apologize for that.
And while I do agree with this, you can still support Newsom and other people fighting Trump, while also not pushing bad things that Newsom (and others) are doing to the side. There's already a trend with Democrats siding with Trump on trans issues, and pushing those issues to the side will end up snowballing that trend onto more Democrats.
Nobody deserves to be persecuted the way trump is persecuting the trans community but Newsom is doing the exact right thing by not talking about it. Now is not the time to focus on an issue that involves less than 1% of the population. It only serves to rile up the maga idiots and cause them to reject everything else we are fighting because all they see then is that βwoke shitβ. The danger to democracy, the collapse of checks and balances, the destruction of our economy is all blah, blah, blah to them once they hear transgender. They use it as an excuse to point at us and say, βthere, see, libs are trying to turn our boys into girlsβ and arenβt willing to move outside that βwokeβ prejudice.
Fight the trans battle another day once weβve saved our country.
Everything riles them up, so I fail to see your point. My guess is that you and everyone else who is saying that this is not a priority right now..he has βmore important things to worry aboutβ and quoting the small percentage of trans people who are affectedβ¦this shows me you are not trans and you donβt have a loved one who is either. Otherwise hopefully you wouldnβt be talking about how their safety and basic human rights are something that we can table for now, because itβs simply not that important in the big picture.
If you had anyone close to you who was losing access to life saving medication, who was being excluded from the sports and activities they were doing for years, forcibly outed in their community and having their safety compromisedβ¦any number of other things that is happening to trans people dailyβ¦you would understand that just waiting around for the right time to have that little chat when itβs more convenient is not the way. Trans people deserve to live their lives and be protected, too.
This. I see so many people, not only in your replies here, saying so many similar things. It just seems like some people don't have empathy for groups of people who they don't know personally, it's really concerning.
It just seems so easy for many of them to throw trans people under the bus because it is convenient for them personally.
I have complete empathy for trans people. They have very hard lives and deserve better but maga does not have empathy. Iβm saying there are people who might be on the fence about turning away from maga and constantly talking about trans rights turns them off and pushes them away. They base their entire decision about who to vote for on that one issue, and that issue turns them towards the vicious monsters for one reasonβ¦the viscous monsters also hate trans people.
You say you have empathy for trans people, but are willing to completely ignore them for the sake of people that are transphobic doesn't line up. Essentially blaming the people that are being discriminated against, for being discriminated against.
And like Shay said in another reply, maga is hateful to everyone that aren't exactly like them. If it isn't trans people, it'll be someone else.
Newsom isn't just not saying anything about trans rights/people, he is actively doing harmful things towards trans people. He invited Charlie Kirk onto his podcast and agreed with multiple transphobic comments he made, and even caved into Trumps demands involving trans athletes.
Also throwing trans people under the bus is extremely harmful and outright disrespectful. Completely ignoring a minority group, because they are a minority, is horrible. You fight Trump by fighting ALL the horrible things he stands for, you don't get to pick and choose what is convenient.
Itβs always a priority to stand up for people that need it. I understand that some things feel less immediate to some and we canβt express all the things in the same second. We still need to keep ourselves fighting for the right things even if the conversation in the moment is focusing about another topic that is part of the overall fight.
Good grief this is insane. someone wants to be a frog or whatever let them have that choice but to think they re more deserving than others is destructive.
Iβm not from California, but can you talk about the ways in which you feel like he can be accountable to that? Has he done anything against that community that I am not aware of?
A couple months back he invited Charlie Kirk to be one of his first guests onto his podcast, and agreed with some transphobic things that he said on it. He also recently caved into Trump's demands over trans athletes. This stuff doesn't really make mainstream news, but is still definitely concerning to see what some Democrats, especially Newsom, are caving into regarding trans rights.
Itβs not caving on trans rights to acknowledge that cis females have an issue competing with trans females. They have legitimate concerns and it was addressed in a very fair way so that they could still compete in sports. Having to constantly defend these girls against your all or nothing is what will turn or Democrats against trans.
While part of that might be true, every conservative state which has enacted bans on HRT for minors (and trying to ban adults now as well) has always started with sports. MAGA and other people use the sports argument as a stepping stone to get to what they want, and people caving on that leads to more harmful things being brought to the trans community.
And even besides that, the fact that no one ever brings up trans men in the sports conversation shows that those people don't care about 'fairness', they're just trying to use it as a stepping stone to escalate.
Oh and by the way Trans be transβbut no WAY IN HELL should they be competing in gender specific sporting events. Boston Marathon is having a nightmare with this? And I personally was unseated from a podium place by a transitioning male-female. Men run faster than women . Period. Google the Boston qualification times.
If Trans want to compete? They can do so in their OWN categories. Iβm fine with that.
But a man transitioning as a woman has NO BUSINESS competing against me. And he/she has NO BUSINESS knocking me off a podium. None.
Well, when youβre calling him, Getty Boy, are you referring to like the museum? In what way is he driving people out of California? You made a comment that lacked substance. Iβm asking you to add substance or else your comment is just invalid.
What are you talking about? I know Iβll get labeled trans phobic but 70% of Americans donβt think trans female should be in womenβs sports. Gavin Along with the CIF came up with a solution that addressed the concerns of CIS females in competitive sports. As far as I know, he has no issue on who uses what bathrooms. He also signed some legislation that prevents the schools from informing parents when kids changed their pronouns. That is something that is pissed off a lot of Californians. So I think he has shown support for the rights and safety of transgender people.
That was a great interview Love Newsom or hate him. I donβt care. We now have a common enemy and I mean enemy to the United States and that is Donald Trump and this administration we have to come together as Democrats left us progressive whatever you wanna call yourself we need to uniteagainst this fascist regime or theyβre gonna win so you may not get everything you want. Life isnβt fair, but we cannot let racism fascism, and oligarchy win.
I dont always agree with our Governor but I absolutely stand and support him in this moment. And I hope to see him in the White House. He really was born for this moment!
Please tell Governor Newsom to stop trying to take away the raises for state employees that we are scheduled to get on 07/01/2025. Our unions fought hard for our contracts, and Governor Newsom ratified the contracts himself. State employees are not at fault for California's budget crisis; we shouldn't be punished for it again! The cost of living in CA is hard enough to manage; we don't deserve to struggle even more due to cancelled raises or furloughs!
What are you even talking about? And why do you immediately resort to being rude and insulting? I didn't insult anyone in my comment.
This is straight from our union:
"Local 1000βs bargaining team made one thing very clear to the Stateβs team: We will not accept any proposal that doesnβt honor our July 3% raise. Our contract was ratified by our membership and passed by the California legislature. Any attempt to cancel our scheduled pay raise is misguided and unfair.
And the legislature agrees. The California Assembly and Senate are standing with us to reject Governor Newsomβs attempt to cancel our upcoming 3% wage increase.
Right now, bargaining is suspended while we ramp up our efforts to support the Legislatureβs decision to stand with workers. We are taking every opportunityβin our worksites and through the political processβto make sure our voices are heard, and our contracts are upheld.
Governor Newsom still retains the power of the pen and could veto any budget line item he doesnβt like, including our 3% salary increase. But we have something just as powerful as Governor Newsomβs penβWe have the people. We have YOU."
This was excellent ππ» thanks for the hard work Aaron and always sharing the truth and the facts
Aaron and Governor Newsom are brave democracy defenders! Let's keep supporting them in the streets with protests. I have created a NO KINGS anthem to fight fascism: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-song-june-14
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Excellent interview!
Good grief, Getty boy Gavin has helped destroy a once great state.
Perhaps youβve confused him with history itself? Thatβs a lot to put solely on anyoneβs shoulders.
Afterall heβs no mentally stunted megalomaniac like the great orange inheritor.
Getty boy Gavin HAS been DESTRUCTIVE to CA and DRIVEN Californians out of their home state.
Feel free to enlighten me please. But be specific with easily factchecked sources. Otherwise itβs just noise/feelings/opinion.
Thanks.
Iβd say Bassehound is probably a troll or bot!
They are constantly on this site saying negative things with no specifics or sources
definitely unkind
That's a great thought. Thanks.
Lol, Julie not accepting any thoughts or speech that doesn't fit a narrow perspective.
BS
I have been specific if you choose not to accept it oh well.
specific how? the same as when I say Donald Trump - the felon in cheif, is ruining democracy, grifting along the way, turning on our allies, ruining our ecomonomy, ignoring rule of law thinking he is above it?....I could go on and on....but you know all this
Once again, opinions are not facts. Opinions are like assholes.
Opinions are not facts. In fact, opinions are like assholes. That said, people are free to go or stay. Most would rather stay, but they cannot afford housing. This is partly due to greedy landlords and partly due to supply and demand. That's capitalism for you. I recomnend studying Economics.
NAME HOW.
Itβs still a great State with the 4th largest GDP in the world, the most culturally diverse population in the nation, forests, deserts, oceans, rivers, lakes, wildlife, compassionate and intelligent people. Youβre just envious, full of sour grapes, MAGAt troll.
In the WORLD people
Awesome keep up ignorance CA is no longer a great state and have zero clue what CA has become. Funny how if the so call left doesnβt like ones thoughts or opinion they automatically box someone into so called mage. Shows YOUR IGNORANCE.
What has it become in your mind? I still donβt think you should be just commenting on everyoneβs post. If people are happy with Newsom then so be it. Youβve voiced your opinion! We know you donβt like him!
More people have commented on my posts than I did. Sorry you do not like my very few honest free speech comments. Sorry you are not well informed about CA.
You never gave anything specific just that Gavin has ruined everything. If the majority of California thought that way we would not have voted for him three times. You try to recall him and we voted for him again.
California is still a great state, wonderful to live in full of beauty and fun! I have been Californian all my life and I have been all over the nation; California is the only place for me. BTW, if you donβt want to be mistaken for a MAGAt quit βsoundingβ like one. Youβre so miserable that you donβt know beauty from ugly and thatβs pitiful.
So unless a comment fits your thinking someone is whatever you chose to call them. Yep exactly fitting for limited thinking. CA is beautiful geographically, sadly beyond that it is lost. Sadly you have a very closes thought process and there is NO beauty i that.
I have lived here in California since 1965 and I still love it. Every single person I know who moved away is sorry they did. Ronnie Reagan did more damage to California than anyone else.
You are dull. If you have to troll, at least be entertaining. <yawn>
Look βKarenβ is another truth and free speech hater, shocking.
Right. At least hes doing SOMETHING!
Pop corn? Will he last that long?
Who?
What is the SOMETHING?
Awww.... poor baby got lost in his own troll act. Awwwww..... want a wittle violin, poor troll baby? Come on, do something fun! Entertain us!
Speak for yourself ! Itβs a beautiful huge State and will always love our diversity in ethnicity and cultures ! LEAVE if youβre not happy!!
Lol, only accept one NARROW thought, not surprised.
Isnβt that what youβre doing?
Just responding to free speech haters and those who only accept their narrow minded ways.
you keep referring to people who don't like your comments as free speech haters. No it's thoughtless haters they are responding to You free to be hateful and angry, but you're only hurting yourself. Try a little self-forgiveness like CeeMcD also needs
Do you live in CA? How are we destroyed? 4th largest GDP in the world!!! That's a pretty large condemnation...
Lol, likely not even in CA always the same limited babbling.
California isnβt destroyed. We have todayβs problems, but we are good at solving them.
To say CA is solving problems is delusional.
The majority donβt agree with you. So if you have problems living in California, perhaps you should seek out a different state that is more aligned with how you want your state to be run.
Awesome an unexpected response, lol.
People say this often, my aunt included. Hates newsom but why? Whatβs been destroyed. I donβt get it. California is awesome. Expensive yeah but so is Oregon
yes he's won every race sometimes twice, the people want him, voted him in in many races... that's the bottom line. You don't have to like it.
Lol, In many races, π
Looks like you are clueless about how the system works.
Oh how so?
If you have a clue you would understand.
Wishing you a good day.
kind of you to be so kind you can't even back up your comments Here:
Elected Offices and Campaigns
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β’ Served district-based supervisor before running for mayor.
2. Mayor of San Francisco
Year Election Result
2003 Elected (runoff vs Matt Gonzalez) Won runoff Decβ―9, 2003, with 53%
2007 Re elected Won with ~73.7%
β’ Served from Janβ―8, 2004 β Janβ―10, 2011 .
3. Lieutenant Governor of California
β’ 2010: Dropped out of governorβs race; elected lieutenant governor Novβ―2, 2010 .
β’ 2014: Re elected for a second term .
β’ Served from 2011 to early 2019 .
4. Gubernatorial Runs
β’ 2010: Initially announced a run, but withdrew in October 2009 due to low polling .
β’ 2018: Ran and won the governorship; assumed office on Janβ―7, 2019 .
β’ 2021 (Recall): Faced a recall election on Septβ―14, 2021; survived with ~62% βnoβ vote .
β’ 2022: Re elected governor on Novβ―8, 2022, defeating Brian Dahle with ~59.2% .
Titles Earned from Each Race
β’ Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1997β2004)
β’ Mayor of San Francisco (42nd; 2004β2011)
β’ Lieutenant Governor of California (2011β2019)
β’ Governor of California (40th; Janβ―2019βpresent)
β’ Survived Recall β remains Governor (Septβ―2021)
Summary Timeline
β’ 1997: Appointed to SF Board
β’ 1998, 2000, 2002: Elected to SF Board
β’ 2003: Elected SF Mayor (sworn in 2004)
β’ 2007: Re elected SF Mayor
β’ 2010: Ran Lt. Gov. β elected
β’ 2014: Re elected Lt. Gov.
β’ 2018: Elected Governor, sworn 2019
β’ 2021: Recall election β remained in office
β’ 2022: Re elected Governor
that's what I meant to say.
He's done beautifully with CA. Along with VT and Oregon, it's the best place in the U.S. It also has the 4th biggest economy in the world. Phooey to that comment.
Lol, another joke comment.
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Lol, Jeff hates truth and free speech.
No I just exercised my free speech turd π© and I can troll just as hard as you! Be gone troll turd π©
Only say what Jeff wants to hear, make Jeff happy! Lol, no different than maga. Shows how destructive the team spirit can be.
Damn, dude, you are copying your own material. Dull, boring, dull, dull, dull, boring with a side of dull. Can dish it out can't take it... So sad....
You're a lying liar. You probably don"t even live in CA. The 4th largest global economy must be doing something right.
Sure bruh. Clearly you were drunk during the comeback from Ahnold and fucking 2008.
Troll go home
Go away bot
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You are THE PROBLEM. You live a one dimensional world. Shame on you for wasting God's time.
Lol, another truth and free speech hater, shocking.
if we were free speech lovers, we would be agreeing with you??? π€£π€£π€£
π shows what a joke you are.
Thatβs my Governor! Go GavinππΌπ
Thank you,Aaron for arranging this timely conversation with Gavin Newsom. Energizing and inspiring. We need hope. Thank you , Gavin for your words of encouragement. Still in this fight!! Letβs GO!
Let's keep it up. We are all in for what I am beginning to think may not be such a long haul. Stuff seems to be unraveling. Visualizing the collapse.
Hope with Getty boy Gavin is a NO WIN.
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How I wish he was MY governor - but we (in VA) are stuck with Youngkin, a tRump wannabe. Maybe we can get Ralph (Northam) back - but I doubt it. He was kind and honest, too.
But in November, youβll have a new Dem governor - Abigail Spanberger! My mum lives in VA and cannot wait to vote for her.
I live in Des Moines. Iowaβs governor Kim Reynolds is the least popular governor in the country. She is a trump sycophant and has plunged IA into a deep red hole after having once been a progressive state. Deeply embarrassed of my native state. π
Deeply embarrassed of my native state CA
Move to Ca then and enjoy the destruction.
Yesss! My gov too! Arenβt we lucky!
P.S. Whatβs with all the trolls here? Ugh.
I think they just want attention π€·π»ββοΈ
Good grief the hack Getty boy Gavin has helped DESTROY CA.
Thanks for standing up to the Bully!
Just finished watching it live it was awesome.Thank you Aaron and Governor Newsom really appreciate the both of you for everything youβre doing for us.π―ππͺππ―π―πππΎ
Sacramento, CA! Thank you for what youβve been doing for us. Proud Californian!
Disgusting what CA has become
I donβt know why you need to be on this thread! It doesnβt seem to be your style so go to a thread that feeds hate and division!
Awesome NO freedom of thought or speech, WOW only think one way allowed and NOT ALLOWED anyone who experiences CA destruction.
No you are totally allowed your free speech. That's what makes the country great and I hope you realize that that very right, is in danger right now! That the way of life that we all have enjoyed is on the verge of being lost. So even though you may not like Gavin Newsom, at least he is out trying to preserve democracy and to stand up to an authoritarian government. And I'm sure some people are unhappy with politics in CA but there are millions who are happy to be living there.
Glad you appreciate free speech, but to think Getty boy Gavin is standing up for any freedom, maybe the tooth fairly will truly leave a toothless child a treasure.
Getty boy has helped destroy a once great state.
Please leave. Do you even live and work in California or are you just here for hate?
Lol, hate, YES I HATE to see what has happened to my home state and odd people NOT from CA who have NO CLUE support it's destruction.
You have yet to elaborate on any thing that has caused this destruction to California that you claim. Just give one example of a very specific thing that Gavin has done to destroy California. You come on here and itβs all heβs destroyed California, but how?
Curious, do you live in CA?
Do you live in CA?
Yes. I do live in CA. I was just wondering. I think you have every right to say what you need to say. I was just wondering I see a lot of comments being made and at times it is from people WHO do not live in CA.
Tara with you living in CA you should understand the Getty boy reference and how it has been destroyed. Look at regulations coming down the pike and how broke it really is based on wasteful spending. A few yrs ago even Jerry Brown spoke of some of Newsomβs poor spending choices.
Definately get the Getty Boy reference and I agree with you, there is a lot ALOT of wasteful spending being done here. Even if he decides to withhold the Federal monies that we send, being a donor state, I don't think that monies will be allocated where it needs to go and where it is needed. There is so much that needs to be fixed before we should even go that route and that will take years to fix.
Well some who born in CA had to leave to survive what was ONCE A GREAT STATE.
What state have you been a governor of ever?
Are you even a real person?
Why don't you respond to any followup comments?
Why dont yoy use your real name and photo?
Can you kindly fuck all the way off?
Do you live in California
Do you live in CA?
Really bassethound. that you can pound pavement.. . This is my state. You have no grounds to speak on anything about us.
Heβs still avoiding any accountability for the rights and safety of transgender people, who are also being targeted by the administration. Itβs definitely alarming.
I think heβs kinda busy trying to stop trumpβs gestapo overtaking our state and saving democracy. Maybe you should rethink your priorities.
It was even before this whole deal, with him going on podcasts with Charlie Kirk and agreeing with him on some very transphobic things he said during it, and even caving into some Trumps demands over trans athletes. Don't worship political figures, of any party.
We are trying to save the country that includes you.
Let's get off culture wars and focus on basics.
Protecting minority groups in America is the basics.
We cannot protect anyone if we are in a full authoritarian dictatorship.
The purity judgments need to be put on pause while we fight the regime.
We need as many people against Trump and this administration as we can get. Newsom included.
You can still do both, without throwing different minority groups under the bus.
On the other hand, I do appreciate Newsom for standing up for what's right and fighting Trump doing blatantly wrong and illegal things. At the same time, not blindly supporting people is important, that's how we get things like Maga w/ Trump.
Iβm not blindly supporting. I am not happy with Newsomβs opinion on trans people.
But Trump is the front and center threat right now. We get rid of this regime and we get rid of 75% of the problems when it comes to the rights we are fighting for - including for trans people.
Thank you for clarifying, I took your original message as ignoring that issue. I apologize for that.
And while I do agree with this, you can still support Newsom and other people fighting Trump, while also not pushing bad things that Newsom (and others) are doing to the side. There's already a trend with Democrats siding with Trump on trans issues, and pushing those issues to the side will end up snowballing that trend onto more Democrats.
Donβt you think heβs got a lot in his plate right now? Newsom is trying to keep the military off his streets!
Nobody deserves to be persecuted the way trump is persecuting the trans community but Newsom is doing the exact right thing by not talking about it. Now is not the time to focus on an issue that involves less than 1% of the population. It only serves to rile up the maga idiots and cause them to reject everything else we are fighting because all they see then is that βwoke shitβ. The danger to democracy, the collapse of checks and balances, the destruction of our economy is all blah, blah, blah to them once they hear transgender. They use it as an excuse to point at us and say, βthere, see, libs are trying to turn our boys into girlsβ and arenβt willing to move outside that βwokeβ prejudice.
Fight the trans battle another day once weβve saved our country.
Everything riles them up, so I fail to see your point. My guess is that you and everyone else who is saying that this is not a priority right now..he has βmore important things to worry aboutβ and quoting the small percentage of trans people who are affectedβ¦this shows me you are not trans and you donβt have a loved one who is either. Otherwise hopefully you wouldnβt be talking about how their safety and basic human rights are something that we can table for now, because itβs simply not that important in the big picture.
If you had anyone close to you who was losing access to life saving medication, who was being excluded from the sports and activities they were doing for years, forcibly outed in their community and having their safety compromisedβ¦any number of other things that is happening to trans people dailyβ¦you would understand that just waiting around for the right time to have that little chat when itβs more convenient is not the way. Trans people deserve to live their lives and be protected, too.
This. I see so many people, not only in your replies here, saying so many similar things. It just seems like some people don't have empathy for groups of people who they don't know personally, it's really concerning.
It just seems so easy for many of them to throw trans people under the bus because it is convenient for them personally.
I have complete empathy for trans people. They have very hard lives and deserve better but maga does not have empathy. Iβm saying there are people who might be on the fence about turning away from maga and constantly talking about trans rights turns them off and pushes them away. They base their entire decision about who to vote for on that one issue, and that issue turns them towards the vicious monsters for one reasonβ¦the viscous monsters also hate trans people.
You say you have empathy for trans people, but are willing to completely ignore them for the sake of people that are transphobic doesn't line up. Essentially blaming the people that are being discriminated against, for being discriminated against.
And like Shay said in another reply, maga is hateful to everyone that aren't exactly like them. If it isn't trans people, it'll be someone else.
Newsom isn't just not saying anything about trans rights/people, he is actively doing harmful things towards trans people. He invited Charlie Kirk onto his podcast and agreed with multiple transphobic comments he made, and even caved into Trumps demands involving trans athletes.
Also throwing trans people under the bus is extremely harmful and outright disrespectful. Completely ignoring a minority group, because they are a minority, is horrible. You fight Trump by fighting ALL the horrible things he stands for, you don't get to pick and choose what is convenient.
Itβs always a priority to stand up for people that need it. I understand that some things feel less immediate to some and we canβt express all the things in the same second. We still need to keep ourselves fighting for the right things even if the conversation in the moment is focusing about another topic that is part of the overall fight.
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Good grief this is insane. someone wants to be a frog or whatever let them have that choice but to think they re more deserving than others is destructive.
Iβm not from California, but can you talk about the ways in which you feel like he can be accountable to that? Has he done anything against that community that I am not aware of?
A couple months back he invited Charlie Kirk to be one of his first guests onto his podcast, and agreed with some transphobic things that he said on it. He also recently caved into Trump's demands over trans athletes. This stuff doesn't really make mainstream news, but is still definitely concerning to see what some Democrats, especially Newsom, are caving into regarding trans rights.
Itβs not caving on trans rights to acknowledge that cis females have an issue competing with trans females. They have legitimate concerns and it was addressed in a very fair way so that they could still compete in sports. Having to constantly defend these girls against your all or nothing is what will turn or Democrats against trans.
THANK YOU.
While part of that might be true, every conservative state which has enacted bans on HRT for minors (and trying to ban adults now as well) has always started with sports. MAGA and other people use the sports argument as a stepping stone to get to what they want, and people caving on that leads to more harmful things being brought to the trans community.
And even besides that, the fact that no one ever brings up trans men in the sports conversation shows that those people don't care about 'fairness', they're just trying to use it as a stepping stone to escalate.
Oh and by the way Trans be transβbut no WAY IN HELL should they be competing in gender specific sporting events. Boston Marathon is having a nightmare with this? And I personally was unseated from a podium place by a transitioning male-female. Men run faster than women . Period. Google the Boston qualification times.
If Trans want to compete? They can do so in their OWN categories. Iβm fine with that.
But a man transitioning as a woman has NO BUSINESS competing against me. And he/she has NO BUSINESS knocking me off a podium. None.
Sorry. Just NO.
Can I see a link for both please? Iβm a fact checker (40 years) and this sounds hyperbolic.
Getty boy has driven people out of cA.
Russian troll
Control free speech, then closed minds will be happy.
Youβll have to elaborate
Elaborate on WHAT?
Well, when youβre calling him, Getty Boy, are you referring to like the museum? In what way is he driving people out of California? You made a comment that lacked substance. Iβm asking you to add substance or else your comment is just invalid.
Your ignorance is showing. Do some research and maybe you will have a clue.
What are you talking about? I know Iβll get labeled trans phobic but 70% of Americans donβt think trans female should be in womenβs sports. Gavin Along with the CIF came up with a solution that addressed the concerns of CIS females in competitive sports. As far as I know, he has no issue on who uses what bathrooms. He also signed some legislation that prevents the schools from informing parents when kids changed their pronouns. That is something that is pissed off a lot of Californians. So I think he has shown support for the rights and safety of transgender people.
Fox grudgingly showed respect when one of its presenters noted that Gavin Newsom gave MeidasTouch the exclusive for one of his speeches.
Was an excellent interview!! Now go get Obama to have a chat!! That would be EPIC!!!!
This Virginian is with LA and CA
Oh brother stay out of CA getty boy gavin has done enough damage
Why donβt you take your teeny tiny dick elsewhere
Lol, Candace hates truth tellers.
I havenβt heard any truth from you yet, just vile comments and hatred,
Lol, Candace cannot accept truth.
What truth? You say he destroyed California yet you give no examples.
No. None of us care about your opinion is the truth. Lmao
Only your opinion accepted, lol. Truth is Getty boy Gavin has helped destroy a once great state and driven many Californians our if CA.
I wish I hadnβt moved out of CA since I live in a fascist red state. So idk what youβre talking about. Lmao
You are annoying as hell. This Californian is delighted to block you.
Lol another truth and free speech hater.
That was a great interview Love Newsom or hate him. I donβt care. We now have a common enemy and I mean enemy to the United States and that is Donald Trump and this administration we have to come together as Democrats left us progressive whatever you wanna call yourself we need to uniteagainst this fascist regime or theyβre gonna win so you may not get everything you want. Life isnβt fair, but we cannot let racism fascism, and oligarchy win.
Great interview! Good work, Aaron!
He is so forward thinking, rational, and our hope for compassion and fairness.β€οΈ
I dont always agree with our Governor but I absolutely stand and support him in this moment. And I hope to see him in the White House. He really was born for this moment!
We, the people have your back, Governor Newsom. You are exactly the leader California needs in these dire times. ππ±π·β€οΈπ
Make legislation to protect the courts against ice with sheriff's. Where are the checks and balances??
Please tell Governor Newsom to stop trying to take away the raises for state employees that we are scheduled to get on 07/01/2025. Our unions fought hard for our contracts, and Governor Newsom ratified the contracts himself. State employees are not at fault for California's budget crisis; we shouldn't be punished for it again! The cost of living in CA is hard enough to manage; we don't deserve to struggle even more due to cancelled raises or furloughs!
NEWSOM doesnβt have the purse Brilliant One thatβs CONGRESS.
Sad you scapegoat out of ignorance.
I can't believe you are a teacher and a mother with that huge chip on your angry shoulder.
What are you even talking about? And why do you immediately resort to being rude and insulting? I didn't insult anyone in my comment.
This is straight from our union:
"Local 1000βs bargaining team made one thing very clear to the Stateβs team: We will not accept any proposal that doesnβt honor our July 3% raise. Our contract was ratified by our membership and passed by the California legislature. Any attempt to cancel our scheduled pay raise is misguided and unfair.
And the legislature agrees. The California Assembly and Senate are standing with us to reject Governor Newsomβs attempt to cancel our upcoming 3% wage increase.
Right now, bargaining is suspended while we ramp up our efforts to support the Legislatureβs decision to stand with workers. We are taking every opportunityβin our worksites and through the political processβto make sure our voices are heard, and our contracts are upheld.
Governor Newsom still retains the power of the pen and could veto any budget line item he doesnβt like, including our 3% salary increase. But we have something just as powerful as Governor Newsomβs penβWe have the people. We have YOU."