2026-10-31 14:32 UTC
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@cogman@lemmy.world 2026-10-31 14:56
It’s amazing to have the base screaming for taxes with leadership acting like that new revenue would somehow be bad. Hopefully this ratfuckery kills Newsom’s presidential run. He’s so transparently corrupt.
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@protist@retrofed.com 2026-10-31 15:23
Newsom speaking out against this one-time wealth tax lays bare for everyone that he’s in the pocket of billionaires. I didn’t like him before either, but I think Gavin Newsom is throwing away his career on this issue. How utterly tone-deaf to the mood of the US population do you have to be to oppose this
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@insanemantis@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 04:18
If not right wing, then why right wing shaped? Jackass party 🫏
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@SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 04:37
It’s losing, in a landslide. And we are going to pass one of the worst voter ID laws in the country. Billionaires are going to have a very good Tuesday.
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@Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2026-10-31 18:51
Should be 1% yearly like they do to our retirement plans.
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-10-31 20:11
Of course the top Democrats are fighting it. That’s their job, that’s what they are paid to do. The voters want term limits, and have for decades. The voters want universal healthcare, and have for decades. The voters want no war, so we are practically always at war. The voters have wanted the Epstein files released for like 20 years, so they remain top secret. The voters have wanted the wealthy to be taxed at pre-Reagan levels, so that’s been ignored for 50 years now. … and so on. Every one of these issues and more are supported by about 80% of voters, and have been for a long time.
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@Floon@lemmy.ml 2026-11-02 05:20
The terrible thing with this is that it’s these Neolib Clinton Dems that piss off the voters, and inspire the “both sides are the same” accusations. That’s where a lot of folks stop. But if you want to change a party to be on the side of the people, willing to reinvigorate progressive tax laws, you need to vote Dem, and force the Dems to the left. You’re not going to force the GOP to the left, at all. They are absolutely the political arm of the richest. They do not exist as a party without the top 1%. The Dems used to be more Left, and like to pretend they’re still the same New Deal folks they’ve always been. They’re not, but voters can force them to be again. Let your elected reps know what you expect of them, and threaten to primary them from the left all the time. The party can be moved. It’s definitely in need of fixing, but it can be done. Just like the Tea Party and then MAGA transformed the GOP, so too can the Dems be transformed by passionate progressives. You just have to realize that opting out, and hating the Dems for not already being what they should be, is just saying you want to lose, and to always lose.
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@laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-31 15:21
The proposition, prop 40, seems likely to fail anyway, though… Even if it passes, both props after it, 41 and 42, have to fail, because either of them will effectively cancel 40 even if it passes, and they’re sold as things like “protecting your retirement”