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It is entirely possible for a person to be on the right side of one issue and the wrong side of another issue. We support positions, but we elect politicians. Those politicians are not always going to be on our side, and in fact they rarely are.

Gavin Newsom is not on our side. I do not want to vote for him, because I believe we have better options.

But he is better than any Republican. Newsom is not openly racist, defending pedophiles, attempting to murder foreigners, or trying to end civil rights. He and I disagree on economic policy, but if his name is on the ballot across from a fascist, then I'll accept the lesser of two evils.

Still, let's not pick him as the nominee for president. He's not the guy we'd like him to be. Newsom is an oligarch, but at least he isn't a Republican. Governing is the slow boring of hard boards, and sometimes progress is merely reducing the harm.

The mask is off.

"Narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that existed until Trump and Hegseth wanted to murder people on a boat with missiles from the stratosphere without involving any available legal system.

Crazy how much they're talking about him like he was the last conservative statesman, like he wasn't a corrupt partisan oligarch willing to murder for his own personal profit. Like, he didn't become a better person, that's just how bad the Trump era has gotten.

That's not an exaggeration in any way. New York and Chicago. There are other cities with some public transit, but anywhere with a) jobs, b) decent schools, and c) reliable public transit will also be prohibitively expensive.

Except it's not merely a cult, it is the entire history of the development of our nation. Our infrastructure is built on the idea that space is plentiful, and everyone has their own car. The very concept of suburban America is predicated on at least one car in every home. Communities were built without walking access or public transit. Commerce was congealed into vast campuses consisting entirely of parking lots and three-story office buildings. School districts consolidated into massive centralized buildings where thousands of students arrive via hundreds of big yellow busses, some traveling for hours each way.

Even if you wanted to break free from the "cult," there's like two cities in the entire USA where you could live, work, and raise a family in a decent school district without a car, and they would be some of the highest cost of living areas in the entire world.

My favorite story from the cast is when Jason Alexander was talking with Larry David about a particularly unlikely scenario, saying he was having trouble relating as a character to something that would never happen to anyone. David said "What are you talking about? This happened to me." It was then that Alexander realized that George is Larry, and he stopped doing George as Woody Allen.

She learned this lesson, but is she actually a better person? Is she rethinking all of her odious stances and actions? I'm ready to applaud someone becoming a better person, even if she still has work to do on herself, but I'm also skeptical of any politician who sees the writing on the wall and makes a strategic course correction.

Quite literally, at times.

George is whimsical?

That was basically the premise of Seinfeld.

Again, I didn't accuse you of shit. I said pedophile enablers are bad people, and you volunteered to be offended. That's on you if you felt accused of being shitty. If that's what you're about, then I really don't care what you think of what I said.