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My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.
How do you keep producing people like this, America?
Yeah... He's very much a corpo neolib. He's actively sabotaged attempts to hold PG&E accountable for killing people and render the earned corporate death sentence. He's also vehemently against any wealth tax and keeps pulling the pied-piper strategy during elections to limit the influence of left-of-center politicians.
Is he better than the guys whose campaigns he aids? Yes. Is he a dumpster fire of a politician who is unable and unwilling to take on major issues and address root causes of problems facing his constituents? Also yes.
So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?
I think it is a combination of:
Ya really think his hair is nice?
I've felt that it falls into that Generative AI/Thomas Kinkade uncanny valley zone because it looks kind of glazed -- as if embedded in a thin layer of ice -- while also inhabiting a strange dimension of omnipresent ambient lighting.
Please note: I am not in any way implying that Gavin Newsom isn't real.