i remember being a local blogger about 10 or so years ago and my fave thing was comparing him to Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
I think he is also a big fan of Huey Lewis & the News iirc
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
I can't hate him, he stepped forward to support same-sex marriage at a time when most of the rest of the country was charging in the other direction
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
comparing him to Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman
yeah you weren't alone in this the similarity is just too eerie
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
he stepped forward to support same-sex marriage at a time when most of the rest of the country was charging in the other direction when it was most politically advantageous to him personally, handed the GOP a wedge-issue that helped get Dubya re-elected, resulted in the passage of Prop 8 in California actually *banning* gay marriage, and did not actually result in any valid gay marriages
fixed
that whole charade was nauseating, grandstanding at his worst. He knew he didn't have a legal leg to stand on and did it for the purposes of benefiting no one but himself.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
xp - even when in practice it was preaching to the choir and a high profile distraction from his pro-development/pro-corporate policies?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
^^^
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
he has a history of this grandstanding, like when he wanted to improve the health of poor & working class San Franciscans by banning cigarette sales from chain stores with pharmacies -- that pretty much affected nothing except the ability to buy fairly low-priced cigarettes at Walgreen's stores. ... as opposed to walking a block or less to a liquor store and buying cigarettes
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55cG7EytB7M
omg I pulled up this video to show how fuckin obnoxious he was at the time and the closed captioning is wild
**APPLAUSE BY HOMOSEXUALS**
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
xp the conversation it started was a huge push forward for gay rights
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
i don't think he literally tried to feed a cat to an ATM tho
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
the conversation it started was a huge push forward for gay rights
he didn't start it - Alaska and Arizona already had gay marriage rulings on the books - he just made the splashiest (and emptiest) show about it. which is his modus operandi.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
xp Dan -- I'm not saying he's evil incarnate, just that it was a self-serving move. And it is often super useful to be reminded that in the central SF Bay Area, one lives in kinda a political bubble and that there is certain hair-splitting we do here, some more-progressive-than-thou type stuff, that looks ridiculous to most other Americans
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, and Oakland has a mayoral election ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
Alaska and Arizona, come on. This *was* a big push forward.
Bush had already given his SOTU pressing for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Massachusetts was on track to start allowing marriages in May of that year. A backlash was going to happen in 2004. And Prop 8 was a direct response to the California Supreme Court recognizing marriage rights in 2008
agree that it was a partly self-serving move, but it was also a very good thing
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
yeah, on paper he has done all the right things, but you read into the details of his life and he is a total slimeball
thing is, how else would you vote if not on what he has done and the positives more or less outweigh the negatives
i feel like this single payer healthcare program was hyped a lot in california, but like it's crazy when you do the math
i'm not against it though
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
on paper he has done all the right things
not when he was mayor! he did a lot of not-right things
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
as mayor his sponsorship of Prop N (Care not Cash) was very controversial
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
yeah, i know what you mean
i guess i should say given the options
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
I agree that policy-wise I'm compelled to vote for him, more or less. At the same time, I absolutely hate watching him talk and prior to our current scandal-goalpost-moving POS chief exec I would have assumed Newsom was a lock for doing something scandalously unethical/illegal that would tank his career. I guess we're going to find out soon enough.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Well when the alternative is John Cox...
― Catherine Power (Leee), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
i was listening to an interview with scott weiner and he mentioned that brown had vetoed the 4am last call thing but he would bring it back next year and didn't expect any problems with newsom on that issue. there was then a weird moment where the interviewer and weiner acknowledged that yes, newsom is a known partier.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
a friend of mine/former journalist wrote a semi-autobiographical novel that briefly features an obvious Newsom character riding around in a limo drinking champagne, doing blow and engaging in bisexual hijinks
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
"That, in turn, should be the opening line of your novel.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
god damn i need a voter guide who tf are all these yahoo local judges speaking in code
― the late great, Thursday, 18 October 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
i forget, are you in LA?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 October 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
sandy eggo
― the late great, Thursday, 18 October 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
city of
ah i cannot help you.
anyone reading this in LA:
superior court #4: sauceda on the grounds that the other guy is endorsed by the police unions.
#16: hunter. michel's husband is an NRA lawyer and her son is called Colt and her dog is called Heston. also michel is endorsed by the LAT which in court elections seems to indicate a "nice little beach community" type.
#60: hancock. ex public defender (rather than prosecutor) and woman.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 October 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
no news here for anyone local, but prop c goes national
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/technology/san-francisco-taxes-homeless.html
i didn't know this though:
In 2012, San Francisco also adjusted its tax code by switching from a payroll tax to a gross receipts tax, a change that favored the tech industry, which spends extravagantly to recruit top engineers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
superior court #4: sauceda on the grounds that the other guy is endorsed by the police unions
i definitely voted against the guy that said "proud to be law enforcement's choice"
― the late great, Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-road-map-thurmond-tuck-schools-charters-unions-20181021-story.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 21 October 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I am going to ask an extremely ignorant question: what is the billionaire obsession with charter schools? an untapped market?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 22 October 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
i think it's the standard "free enterprise" thing that appeals to business people, like public schools are hamstrung by all these government regulations, what if we could "disrupt" that and do more or less what we want but still get the same government funding that the public schools do?
― sarahell, Monday, 22 October 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
yeah it's total bullshit
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 October 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
i endorse these endorsements
https://lawebsitedotnet.wordpress.com/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 October 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
rich people also send their kids to private schools so they dgaf about using charters as a lab for their dumb theories. they're not affected.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 22 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Weird new republican ad buy
A plane crashed onto the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. https://t.co/L09NSqhq3k pic.twitter.com/dXHLoY4aKB— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 23, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
would sign a prop that seized all assets of a rich warplane flying asshole that fucks up everybody's commute
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
Opposition to PROP 10Officials Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), 2018 gubernatorial candidate[47] John Cox (R), 2018 gubernatorial candidate[47]Parties California Republican Party[48]
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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), 2018 gubernatorial candidate[47] John Cox (R), 2018 gubernatorial candidate[47]
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California Republican Party[48]
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
When did Gavin Newsom disappoint you first?
I betcha nobody here remembers Brittanie Mountz.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
lol who could forget
― the late great, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
I actually remember Newsom's Gay Marriage Gambit as a pretty savvy move to consolidate the city behind him after a divisive election (and I definitely didn't vote for him in that one).
But he will not be as competent as Brown, that's for sure. Hopefully it will be enough.
― fajita seas, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:04 PM (yesterday)
oh I remember! she had the best name, the jokes wrote themselves
― sarahell, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
i also endorse these endorsements:
https://tjr.xxx/content/two-evils-voting-guide-nov-2018.pdf?1540269420
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
Surprising revelation from @GavinNewsom, former 2-term Mayor of SF: he hasn’t read #PropC and has no opinion on it. Tax tech to help homeless? No view. Not even in the abstract. “I haven’t read it.” pic.twitter.com/0RpAbozJFA— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) October 30, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
prop 10 seems like it's going to lose:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-proposition-10-s-support-craters-in-new-1540406834-htmlstory.html
possibly thanks to this kind of nonsense (the same people will tell you that prop 10 will result in fewer houses being built. pick a side people!)
silver linings though:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-prop-6-leaders-threaten-recall-campaign-1540838655-htmlstory.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
missing link there sorry
Why’s @AptAssocGLA gonna go ahead and make this old lady lie like that pic.twitter.com/GiSMsSydF8— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) October 28, 2018
damn dude, she looks like she's only in her mid-50s??
― sarahell, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
that Doug Sovern tweet is bullshit. Newsom has already weighed in on Prop C
― Dan S, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
I lived in a converted UHaul truck for four years in California. It was very difficult. Having a trust fund and being a van-man is very different than working a full-time job at bad pay and being a van-man.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:52 (eight months ago) link
No matter what the outcome, I am ready to vote on this in November.
vote on what now? what's on the ballot that would address this?
housing at Cal has always, always been bad. I started there in 1990 and was told it was a longshot to get housing (I lived at home and commuted, which was a mistake for multiple reasons; wound up getting an apartment a year later). Cal admits entirely too many students these days, IMO, given their lack of housing. They need to build more but I frankly think they will always find a way to admit more than they can house regardless of how much they build.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:53 (eight months ago) link
santa cruz is even worse, from what I understand.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:54 (eight months ago) link
As in, I was agreeing with you, tlg— that caek’s post made it out as tho it was unseemly for students to be living out of cars or storage units when so many people live that was is what I was objecting to. No one should have to live like that, I know because I fucking did it.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:56 (eight months ago) link
Wealthy Berkeley residents want to live in a college town, but they don't want any college students there.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 August 2023 01:57 (eight months ago) link
yeah those people are shitheads. also I don't know that they really want to live in a college town. they maybe think they do, but they don't.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:00 (eight months ago) link
anywhere can be a college town if you just act like you’re in college, duh look at guerneville
― the late great, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:01 (eight months ago) link
spring break twelve months of the year
― the late great, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:02 (eight months ago) link
their tuition is $3500 and tuition plus dorm lodging is $4100
what???? it doesn't say tuition is $3500 unless I missed something. tuition at UC is quite a bit higher than that even for in-state.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:05 (eight months ago) link
worth noting that one of the major NIMBY assholes in Berkeley is Robert Reich.
it was in the reddit thread?? idk all my kids get free rides basically
― the late great, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:06 (eight months ago) link
In state tuition to berkeley is 14k/yr. The poster said their sponsor paid the tuition. I'm not sure who their sponsor is and why they didn't also agree to pay for housing, that doesn't seem like a very good sponsor to me.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:14 (eight months ago) link
I think you saw this: "The cost for a full UC meal plan is $3,535. Is that what your sponsor is paying? The cost for one semester room and board in the coops is $4,131"
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:17 (eight months ago) link
ohhh thx. yes i misread that
― the late great, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:32 (eight months ago) link
BTW, calling out NIMBYs should not absolve the UC from decades of dereliction when it comes to building student housing. It's not just Berkeley:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-14/fixing-californias-student-housing-crisis-faces-roadblocks
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:42 (eight months ago) link
Why hasn’t UC Berkeley built more student housing? (good historical background - not just Berkeley, but the UC in general)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:47 (eight months ago) link
Of course no one should have to live like this, regardless of GPA or whatever.
And if the specifics of the reddit thread are bothering you then read the thing I linked about UCLA students living in their cars.
My point is not that these people _in particular_ should not be homeless. It’s that things have gotten so fucked up that some of the otherwise most privileged people in the richest state in the country are living in cars and storage units.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 August 2023 04:26 (eight months ago) link
santa cruz is even worse, from what I understand.― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, August 17, 2023 9:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, August 17, 2023 9:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/santa-cruz-is-a-housing-nightmare
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 August 2023 04:27 (eight months ago) link
And https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/traumatized-by-santa-cruzs-housing
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 August 2023 04:36 (eight months ago) link
yeah that's where I first read about it (followed him on twitter, when I was still on twitter)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 05:57 (eight months ago) link
i think santa cruz is only "worse" in the sense that people go there not expecting to commute from like Salinas or Hollister ... whereas people I know who went to UCSD and UCLA and even Berkeley were more prepared to commute.
― sarahell, Friday, 18 August 2023 07:36 (eight months ago) link
I wondered whatever happened to that proposed Dormzilla project at UCSB, and thankfully it's dead.https://therealdeal.com/la/2023/08/08/ucsb-wants-to-replace-charlie-mungers-dorm-design/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 August 2023 10:53 (eight months ago) link
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/federal-judge-california-law-gun-magazines/3230467/
Courtesy of this prize.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Benitez
― omar little, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:01 (six months ago) link
yeah that guy is a POS
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 25 September 2023 00:00 (six months ago) link
Can't wait for more of this genius at work -- Steve Garvey confirms he's running for Senate and says things like this:
He was less anxious to touch base with what may be one of his political liabilities: his personal life. His Mr. Clean image took a hit shortly after he left baseball, when news broke that he fathered two children with different women before marrying a third, his current wife, Candace. “You know, Joe, life is a journey,” Garvey told me. “We all go through chapters in our lives. That was back in a transitional period. I don’t talk about my family or history. People will judge me as to who I am in 2024. I pray for my children and my family every day.”
“You know, Joe, life is a journey,” Garvey told me. “We all go through chapters in our lives. That was back in a transitional period. I don’t talk about my family or history. People will judge me as to who I am in 2024. I pray for my children and my family every day.”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:36 (six months ago) link
"Release the tapes!"How many mispredictions can you spot? https://t.co/IaH8k4Cnjk pic.twitter.com/N7q4TlTmlK— Common Ground California (@CACommonGround) February 14, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 04:40 (two months ago) link