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1. Create for profit prisons tantamount to slavery
2. Make homelessness illegal
3. Destroy the economy and make everybody homeless
4. PROFIT

Next, we should ban heart disease and cancer...

Or is the point to put the squeeze on folks without options or resources to move up economically without providing any solution.

Given Newsom's swing toward the hard right, I'm going with this choice...

And, fuck Newsom. 🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ 🖕

They don't want them to move up they want them to move out

Pivoting?

Funding is easy to lose down the road but laws against the homeless will sure be there for decades to come.

Yeah that $3 billion won't do squat. California spent $24 billion over a five year period and didn't track any of the money, how it was spent, or the outcomes. It's a safe bet that most of the money went to contractors charging extortionate fees for services while providing almost nothing in return, and probably quite a bit landing in the pockets of local politicians. It was basically a big scam to further enrich a bunch of greedy parasites. A few low-level idiots were charged with fraud and embezzlement of like $400k, but that doesn't even scratch the surface of corruption involved in that whole scheme.

California will be fine. They just need to succeed.

When he realized he could get a bunch of money capitulating to and sane washing hard right wingers with a podcast.

his ex; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhFks_9faQY

his current wife; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Siebel_Newsom

Siebel Newsom was registered as a Republican until 2008, before re-registering as No Party Preference. Prior to registering as an independent voter, she accidentally registered with the far-right American Independent Party, before correcting her party to "decline to state".

I think yes, yes he is.

I came here to say this sounds like something Trump or DeSantis would do. Disappointing it is Newsome. We need leaders with solutions, not bigger prisons. (I'm not sure what I would do, but I'm also not the Gov of California hoping to be in the Dem shortlist in 2028).

Prison

Not going to happen. Not because the conservative Democrats won't be able to hoodwink enough primary voters to believe the highest priority is accommodating what they think their shittiest neighbor could (but will not) tolerate, but because in doing so they'll lose the voters they actually need to win and Don Jr. will ascend to the throne.

Banning homelessness doesn't give people a place to stay. It's criminalizing being poor.

Your feelings are unreasonable. Banning homeless encampments is criminalization of existing in public for people who do not have anywhere else to go. Homeless people are not a danger to you, rather they are some of the most vulnerable people in our society - and people don't want them to be able to sleep, or cook or eat, or anything in public. Where do you want them to go? Shelters do not have room for everyone and are a massive risk for people that do make it in.

So you're liberal until it inconveniences you?

How about instead of outlawing homelessness, we created a housing system for them. Then we can talk about moving them out of parks.

You want them to get the help they need, that's the opposite of conservative even without the support for programs.

What other examples can you give? As a California resident I think your comment is bullshit.

Newsom was always a slimy neolib. He was just the lesser evil. The same story plays out constantly all over the US thanks to our broken two-right-wing-parties system, in which both parties are owned and operated by self-serving billionaires.