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[pwnest injun]

So it's an injectable vasectomy? Somehow sounds worse.

It can be reversed with a second injection that dissolves the gel and flushes it out. Better than a snip for sure.

 

[MrJokerRager]

An article covering Newsom's bid to be come president.

Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats (Archive)

Burdened with a decomposing President and a clearly overmatched Vice President, the Democrats are on the hunt for a saviour. For many in the party, Gavin Newsom, the 54-year-old perfectly coiffed Governor of California, seems like the perfect solution. No doubt, given his recent trolling of Florida’s Republican frontrunner Ron DeSantis, he feels the same.

But Newsom’s ascendency faces some severe challenges. First, to get nominated, he must not only depose Biden, but also see off Vice President Kamala Harris. And she has three things Newsom lacks: she’s a woman, she’s black, and she has Asian Indian ancestry. Newsom, on the other hand, is white, was born into a well-connected San Francisco family, and is married to a film-maker and scion of a very wealthy Bay Area family.

Perhaps more importantly, things have not been particularly good for the minority Californians he was voted in to look after. In the Golden State, African-Americans and Hispanics do far worse economically than their counterparts elsewhere in the country. Black residents, on a cost-of-living basis, make about as much as they do in Mississippi, and far less than in states such as Texas, Florida, or Arizona.

Class may prove an even more glaring weakness. Newsom sees his state as a model, claiming California is “the envy of the world” and the great bastion of social justice. “Unlike the Washington plutocracy,” he boasts, “California isn’t satisfied serving a powerful few on one side of the velvet rope.” Yet he is the favourite son of what The Los Angeles Times described as “a coterie of San Francisco’s wealthiest families”, including the founders of the Gap clothing chain, the Pritzker’s and the Getty Family, who essentially adopted him, financed his business ventures, allegedly paid for his first lavish wedding, and helped launch his political career.

Meanwhile, Newsom’s green and progressive pronouncements contrasted starkly with his passion for the good life. He has long lived in luxury, first in his native Marin, and now in Sacramento. This caused Newsom some embarrassment during the height of Covid when he was caught partying in ways that violated his own pandemic orders at the ultra-expensive, ultra-chic French Laundry in Napa and more recently on a lavish family vacation.

When it comes to actual policymaking, Newsom is not much better. He backs an ineffective education system, controlled by his teacher union allies, that leaves almost three out of five California high schoolers unprepared for either college or a career. Meanwhile, his children attend one of the capital’s regions trendiest private schools. He is, in effect, an embodiment of the increasing feudal nature of modern California, which stands among the least egalitarian states in the nation and suffers the overall highest poverty rate in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. Inequality here now surpasses that of Mexico, and is closer to that of the Central American banana republics of Guatemala and Honduras than it is to developed countries such as Canada and Norway. California also suffers the widest gap between middle and upper-middle-income earners of any state, while driving up housing costs and narrowing opportunities for working-class people in blue-collar industries.

So how has Newsom gotten to the point of Presidential viability? Much of the answer lies with California’s own bizarre politics, ruled by a one-party state dominated by public employees, tech oligarchs and green non-profits. These groups finance his campaigns and act as shock troops, along with the largely compliant media. There is no serious challenger to his re-election in November. State Senator Brian Dahle, a fellow GOP aspirant, is an obscure northeast California dairy farmer who failed to secure 20% of the primary vote.

And yet Californians are not particularly enthusiastic about Newsom — his approval ratings stand at roughly 50%, while 60% are pessimistic about the state’s direction. He doesn’t even rank among the nation’s most popular Governors, but stands at about average. At least half of residents, particularly in the state’s interior, see California going in the wrong direction.

Californians are not totally inert or stoned to care; they are discouraged. In Los Angeles, 10% plan to move out this year. Between 2014 and 2020, net domestic emigration from California grew from 46,000 to 242,000, according to US Census Bureau estimates. Yet Newsom’s answer to these concerns is not to create new opportunities for middle or working-class California but to expand what Marx called “the proletarian alms bag”. Rather than lower taxes or give incentives to business, Newsom simply expands the welfare state.

Given the bumper revenues of last year, and the pathetic state of his opposition, Newsom’s gambit will likely pay off this year. But whether it can hold until the next election in 2024 remains less certain. The current tech bust and potential real estate decline could force the current surplus — which is in large part down to pandemic transfers from the federal government — over a “fiscal cliff” by next year, notes the state’s legislative analyst’s office. In other words, Newsom’s penchant to bribe voters may end up as successful as that of Juan Perón.

Against a poorly financed unknown from a party associated with the widely detested Donald Trump, Newsom will likely cruise to victory in November. As the anointed Great White Hope, he may seem like the man to save the Democrats from their own follies and the legacy of the current disaster in the White House. He just has to pray that his own policy failures don’t catch up with him first.

 

[JosephStalin]

If aliens landed on earth today, and looked at the Biden administration as a sample of the global population, they would think that the world was 90% total idiots.

Improved it for you.

On another subject...

 

[Blacklight]

...SCOTUS finding ban of assault weapons and mags unconstitutional. So umm....when can I purchase a non-fucked up FAMAS?

 

[Puff]

...SCOTUS finding ban of assault weapons and mags unconstitutional. So umm....when can I purchase a non-fucked up FAMAS?

That's not happened yet, right? Also I don't think the import bans are on the block.

 

[Honored guest]

...SCOTUS finding ban of assault weapons and mags unconstitutional. So umm....when can I purchase a non-fucked up FAMAS?

I'm sure It'll only cost you $10,000 plus in all sorts of fees and licenses and that not including the price of the rifle, make sure to thank your local woman killing, child burning, dog shooting ATF agent for that.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Russia is detaining her for a simple possession charge without letting her contact her lawyer or loved ones .

I don't think taking hash oil on an international flight to Russia is the same as simple possession in the US. I know a lot of places legally differentiate between marijuana flower and hash, as hash is "processed."

Do Russians have rights to an attorney/outside contact? Do Russia's version of rights apply to non-citizens?

I just think it's odd that they stuck their dick out for her when we allowed that pasty college kid to get beaten to death in a North Korean hard labor camp for "petty" theft. We didn't do shit about that, and we're not even sure if their nukes are functional. She leads an enormously privileged life.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

>All this talk about male cpntraceptives when the only contraceptive you need is a 10/10 pullout game
Lmao.

The bitch who lied about Trump taking out the Secret Service to drive The Beast into the Capitol rotunda had group chats leak where she was all MAGA until someone seems to have bought her off, looks like her girl friends had enough of trying to be the popular girl:

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>Be all into conservagrifting until someone buys you off and you can avoid jail time for being a fed

Woman moment. Inb4 "some of the other people that did this were men". Still the same female bitch energy.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I will never get over what a straight up piece of crap Pence is.
Bernie had freakin doves landing on his shoulder...
The attack ads could just be this clip on repeat.

If only we had listened and payed more attention to the fly... it knew what was coming.

 

[The Ugly One]

None of the things the chattering classes think will prevent Newsom from winning a Democratic primary stopped people like...uh...Newsom himself...from winning...uh...Democratic primaries. Do they think the rest of the country is a lot more woke than California?

Inequality here now surpasses that of Mexico, and is closer to that of the Central American banana republics of Guatemala and Honduras than it is to developed countries such as Canada and Norway. California also suffers the widest gap between middle and upper-middle-income earners of any state, while driving up housing costs and narrowing opportunities for working-class people in blue-collar industries.

Imagine being a Vote Blue No Matter Who Democrat and thinking this is not what the party wants. On a national level, we saw this trend reverse for the first time ever under Trump, and there is nobody your rank-and-file Democrat ever hated more.

 

[Snekposter]

Do Russians have rights

You should know the answer to that, and you should know foreigners have even fewer of those non-rights.

 

[Spoonge]

And then they fuck off in total confusion when everyone just shrugs when they ask to be taken to our leader. "I dunno. Trump, maybe? Not sure its that senile man in the White House..."

Trump hosts the ayys at mar-a lago, takes them golfing then releases one of his little statements.
"Had a great chat with Xipongo-alpha. A very smart man despite his small hands. Loved our McDonalds even though the cashier was very rude. Big plans! We're going to Mars in exchange for quarter pounders so suck it Elon! Make the solar system great again!"

And thus begins the Great Crusade.

 

[DicksOutForKiwigglers]

If only we had listened and payed more attention to the fly... it knew what was coming.

Beelzebub was letting us know who Pence's allegiance really belongs too.

 

[Snekposter]

Trump hosts the ayys at mar-a lago, takes them golfing then releases one of his little statements.
"Had a great chat with Xipongo-alpha. A very smart man despite his small hands. Loved our McDonalds even though the cashier was very rude. Big plans! We're going to Mars in exchange for quarter pounders so suck it Elon! Make the solar system great again!"

And thus begins the Great Crusade.

" They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can beat them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Force ... ... and they shall know no fear. "

 

[XYZpdq]

It can be reversed with a second injection that dissolves the gel and flushes it out. Better than a snip for sure.

it sounds like it would make your nuts weirdly big or something like some tanuki shit

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I've been watching the talking heads of the MSM and suddenly they're all parroting how the GOP is overreaching and suddenly the Dems chances in the mid terms are looking up. They're all quoting that Emerson generic ballot poll that put the Dems/GOP at 45/40 for the midterms.

It's like someone flipped a switch and suddenly all the doom and gloom of the last 6 months is gone and the Dems now have a good chance to keep the House and the Senate. And the GOP are just floundering and crashing.

The spooky part is many of the same lines, the exact same lines, are coming from CNN, MSNBC, ABC and even NPR. It like like they all just took marching orders from the same guy all at once.

But they'd never beytray their viewers trust by pushing a lie to try tosave a certain political party now would they?

 

[make_it_so]

I've been watching the talking heads of the MSM and suddenly they're all parroting how the GOP is overreaching and suddenly the Dems chances in the mid terms are looking up. They're all quoting that Emerson generic ballot poll that put the Dems/GOP at 45/40 for the midterms.

It's like someone flipped a switch and suddenly all the doom and gloom of the last 6 months is gone and the Dems now have a good chance to keep the House and the Senate. And the GOP are just floundering and crashing.

The spooky part is many of the same lines, the exact same lines, are coming from CNN, MSNBC, ABC and even NPR. It like like they all just took marching orders from the same guy all at once.

But they'd never beytray their viewers trust by pushing a lie to try tosave a certain political party now would they?

"Journo-list 2.0" in action.

 

[Gehenna]

Interesting to note, I have heard rumours for a while but now have more solid information. Trump is distancing himself from his daughter and Kushner going forward. They simply aren't appearing on a lot of his "not-quite-yet-campaigns" roster of staff and advisors.

 

[Extreme Crusader]

I actually used to be a writing tutor! My last pupil was a Puerto Rican woman who now works for the DMV and we are all so proud.

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Correct these, fucking commas, nigger.

 

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Interesting to note, I have heard rumours for a while but now have more solid information. Trump is distancing himself from his daughter and Kushner going forward. They simply aren't appearing on a lot of his "not-quite-yet-campaigns" roster of staff and advisors.

Wonder if having them on his team polled badly, or he wants them to be free to do stuff he might not necessarily be able to be connected with directly.