@gavinnewsom.bsky.social Please when the Orange Satan comes to CA ask him to take you to the spout that opens the water pipe he is deceiving people on.
If you do what I want I will be the greatest President. Are you kidding me?!? That is not how shit works buddy. You should be the greatest President WITHOUT requiring everyone and everything to bend to your special kind of crazy.
Two can play at that game. California should refuse to subsidize red states until they pass gun control laws and guarantee womens’ reproductive rights.
I live in bakersfield, california (famous for being the least educated city in the country), and I can confirm any changes to the voting laws here would completely disenfranchise anyone with even a wisp of a chance of voting for that orange moron
He’s incredibly stupid. California already has stringent voter ID requirements & ID requirements for federal elections are set by the federal government. Trump’s an idiot.
What is extraordinary is that he threatened all of this when running as a candidate. Everything he is doing he said he would do, and people still voted for him. One the moments in history I will never understand
Red states will implement drug testing for welfare receiptants thinking it's going to save them so much money. But they catch so few people that it actually costs them money. Voter laws are similar. Voter fraude is so low and the people get caught anyway, that the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Yeah, we’ve got a lot of fundraising going on here so I think we’re going to be okay without your “strings-attached” help. But what are YOU gonna do about NC if we don’t comply? Cause I don’t think it’s gonna go well.
Y’all on this “Voter ID law” wayyyy too much. Idk about the other states, but here in CA, you had to take your mailed-in voter card, give them your FULL NAME and also YOUR BIRTHDAY. Y’all thinking people up in here just go around stealing cards and researching birthdays all to just vote?? Please 😂✋🏼
CA will tell him to fuck off and then CA should divert state money from red districts to aid the fire affected areas and make sure those people know why their schools, roads and other infrastructure is getting shafted
Just because they didn't vote for you, it doesn't mean their votes don't count. California needs to withhold all remittance to the federal government that subsidizes the poorly educated red states that vote for this peckerhead.
There are “voter id laws” in CA. I used to live there. My first voter registration was there (old days, age 21). I do not remember what but you could not just walk in, make up a name and address. He probably did the same given his age.
He needs to be monitored. But daily strict attention will hollow out your brain. So I rely on news recaps and calls from my mother. Her dementia now involves being unapologetic for battering Lara Trump with an umbrella. Last week she threw her feces at some GOP broadcast event. Four years of shit
How about California put gun control laws on the books in order for us to send raggedy red states their piece of the pie?
It’s all about states rights, until it isn’t.
That sounds great but I don’t think Californians can just ask their employers to put their federal tax withholding in escrow instead of sending it to the treasury
You’re sounding like this is the 20th century when things were normal. If a President is going to condition aid on partisan talking point, why can’t the biggest state withhold taxes its citizens are sending to subsidize poor red states. This is not a normal season.
My point was that the state itself isn’t in charge of paying the federal government, it comes from our taxes, which we individually aren’t who actually sends that money to the feds (for most)
The Republicans know that will never actually happen. They loudly claim Dems are the real fascists who try to take away rights and breach the constitution so that Dems will back down quietly and never take a stand on anything.
Ten years or so ago we were warned by a qualified specialist in managing dangerous mad people that he is a "dangerous violent madman who should be confined away from weapons and power". Our talking heads continue to flounder in the particulars of his insane spew.
Me too! And I will never understand those who declare themselves as Christian with Easter signs in yard, and fly trumpy shit during elections. I fault the so called religious community leaders big time! They are the true grifters!
Well you know what, CA has the tax dollars that would have helped all those red states during the hurricane season. You know, the annual climate driven disaster that starts in a couple of months, those tax dollars should stay local.
California is the 5th largest economy in the world. I'm pretty sure they can take care of themselves (especially if they aren't giving money to Red states)
Yashar, is this another wishful thinking action of his that would be considered a non-starter by most legal experts? Because if it’s absolutely going to be challenged in the courts, and most likely be tossed out, I wish reporters would include that piece of information.
Trump now fully controls all 3 branches, military, CIA, FBI, NSA and DOGE will steal everything. Marshal law. Barron will inherit the throne. No more elections. MAGA killed democracy. We’re all under surveillance. We live in Russia. Boycott everything
It is so thoughtful of Trump to include Melania's stunt double on this trip. As a loving husband, I gather he'll do anything to ensure his wife's safety.
Yeah...for over 100+ years, the LA area never thought of getting that water to come down from the North to the South.
It's amazing how brilliant Donny is.
No one...no political leader, geologist, professor, engineer, etc. came up with this common sense/easy solution.
Remarkable!
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Let's cut off Fed aid to the Red states until 85% of their population can:
Pass a basics civics exam (like immigrants are required to do)
Read beyond an 8th grade level
Never heard anyone say the most illiterate thing on pretty much all subjects, yet thinks he spreading knowledge. Who will tell him, he’s speaking nonsense?
I certainly don't wish ill on anyone (MAGA politicians excluded), but I can't wait for the next hurricane to hit Louisiana and see Mike Johnson's outrage when Dems push back on aid.
"I want to see the water come down" - Accidentally sounding like an Old Testament prophet because of dementia-related language deterioration. His followers will love it.
California needs to respond right away by threatening FOTUS by withholding all state funding for Federal government. They should be very loud and obnoxious about why they are doing this too! Call out the bully California!!!
But they do revenue sharing that subsidizes red states, that do vote for this incredibly ignorant moron. The garbage that he's spewing is incredible. If OPEC lowers prices, the Ukraine War will immediately end? 🤦♀️
I appreciate your legal perspective. I am however suggesting that California can play the same game FOTUS is playing. I agree that they would need to bypass the Supremacy Clause, the IRS’s authority and banking regs but if done, how long could they sustain it. It’s a powerful threat.
There's no simple way to cut that off, let alone redirect it to the state's coffers. You'd probably have an easier time repealing the Sixteenth Amendment entirely and then raising state taxes by some fraction of the difference.
Not being argumentative. Genuinely interested in how we could do it more systematically…E.g., are their modifications to state tax codes that could be used to reduce our (Fed) taxable personal/corporate income?
It truly would be a massive undertaking. The state would need to create or change a departments functions for collections. The Feds would file lawsuits. The IRS would threaten individual citizens. It would truly depend on how much support the State could muster. In the other hand, the threat of it…
Shut down the ports. The #1 and #2 busiest ports in the USA are in LA county, also another major port in Oakland. If Washington also follows suit, not outside the realm of possibility since it’s another blue state Trump like to antagonize, that’s all Pacific trade in the USA.
That’s not possible though. Money from income taxes goes directly to the feds.
Cutting off the ports will hurt them more than it hurts us. A lot of those soy beans grown in the Midwest are for animal feed in Asian markets. It’s what little leverage we have.
Goad him into a confrontation before he consolidates his power fully. Strike before they’re ready. If you actually believe this is fascism, resorting to shaming them is bringing a butter knife to a gun fight.
There are easy choke points. Block the roads/tracks and it effectively shuts down. Their storage space is finite and the volume that goes through it is immense.
You mean like when you had the water released in NoCal that can’t reach LA county and won’t be available to farmers to help grow crops during drought? Oh and we already have voter ID. Only gullible cult members believe this guy’s propaganda.
Sure, we can turn on the invisible spigot, you moron. And that whole voter ID thing we can take care of when people register to vote. Why didn’t we think of that?
He wants us to divert water from our river systems to red counties to create even more farms on land that likes to be dry because that's where his buddies live.
Problem is, our rivers would become shallow, hot, and deadly to MULTIPLE species. The Delta Smelt is just the canary in the coal mine.
So obviously this is all bad but the fact that this stupid sunsetting motherfucker is still talking about “the water coming down” from Canada like there’s a huge fucking tap is driving me up the fucking wall.
Amendment X
The Tenth Amendment prescribes that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state, or to the people.
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1. Fuck you. We have IDs already.
2. Fuck you. We're not sacrificing our river systems to benefit your red county cronies.
3. Fuck you. We'll stop sending the federal government money for red state welfare.
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He never had a popular mandate and now he is doing this, plus VA cuts...
The backlash is inevitable, what we have to do is organize around it
He can GFH.
We foot hurricane damage in states that let women die .
FUCK THIS SHIT
Actually, they'll replace the blue check with a blue swastika, for approved voters.
He is a disgusting man and the GOP are spineless.
It’s all about states rights, until it isn’t.
California stop sending money to red states!!!
We should stop helping red states and keep all California revenue for ourselves if those are the games he wants to play.
And to the Californians who voted for this piece of shit, happy now???
#FAFO
Donald Trump is an enemy of the state, burning our institutions to the ground, as our adversaries watch with pleasure.
What Trump is doing by putting conditions on disaster aid should be called “rights gouging”
Who “owns” California’s water?
Also basic science knowledge when speaking on fire hydrants water pressure and availability would be great. But he is stupid.
It's amazing how brilliant Donny is.
No one...no political leader, geologist, professor, engineer, etc. came up with this common sense/easy solution.
Remarkable!
/s
Pass a basics civics exam (like immigrants are required to do)
Read beyond an 8th grade level
Meanwhile has Trump done anything regarding flooding in Kentucky? I'm hearing that no fema workers have been seen.
F DONALD TRUMP!
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/
I hope Newsom has a plan.
It only exists in your drug addled and demented mind.
Stop sending the Feds money. Use it for your own emergency response.
If you give in one time he’s going to ask for more.
We need people to call his bluff and to stand up to him!!!
Thanks, but no thanks. We'll be retaining all federal tax dollars normally sent to the federal govt. and manage this crisis on our own.
But most definitely, let's redirect the money we've been giving to the federal government to meet our own state's needs.
It's stupid to give it away only to have to beg for it back.
Cutting off the ports will hurt them more than it hurts us. A lot of those soy beans grown in the Midwest are for animal feed in Asian markets. It’s what little leverage we have.
And there's sales tax and corporate tax that can be withheld.
I don't believe anything is automatically transferred. It requires a human to push a button.
We give $200B more than we get.
"States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County."
https://universeodon.com/@TomWellborn/113812573609081941
Problem is, our rivers would become shallow, hot, and deadly to MULTIPLE species. The Delta Smelt is just the canary in the coal mine.
get a Republican governor if you're serious.
Amendment X
The Tenth Amendment prescribes that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state, or to the people.
1. Suck my Dick
2. Suck my Dick from the Back
This is extortion and unAmerican
He’s an idiot.
Section 3:
https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/pdfs/quick-guide-vrc.pdf
natural disasters is disgusting even by Sleazy Don's standards.
He wants this state to be red so badly.