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Newsom would appoint her replacement though?
And still, the house has zero influence on SCOTUS appointments? So even if she somehow got replaced by a Republican (ig we’re assuming Newsom has a stroke and goes insane in this situation?), it would have no impact on SCOTUS appointments or any other judicial appointments, since those are done in the Senate.
Newsom is a pro-fossil fuels , pro-cop, billionaire-owned haircut pretending to be progressive, though. I'd trust anyone appointed by him as far as I can throw John Fetterman.
The point is that unlike with SCOTUS vacancies, there's zero chance that Newsome appoints someone with radically different politics from Pelosi, so the analogy kind of sucks regardless of what you think of him.
That's part of my point: another Pelosi would be AWFUL. Not anywhere near as bad as a GOP fascist, of course, but still absolutely AWFUL.
So you admit that the original comparison was crap
Good. My point remains.
I wasn't the one making a comparison. The only thing I was saying was that there's no reason to trust Newsom to appoint someone who's not as immensely corrupt as himself.
THAT point (which, again, was the only one I was making) still stands, so you can stow your smugness where the sun doesn't shine.
I wasn't being "smug," I was merely trying to disambiguate the point under discussion.
The fact that you took it that way says a lot more about you than it does about me.
He said, smugly.
You weren't trying to disambiguate anything, you were asking a smug rhetorical question and then smugly drawing a false conclusion that you'd already made before I clarified and wouldn't change for everything.
You're being both smugly condescending and stubborn, which says nothing about me 🙄
Ok guy. Think what you want. It's no skin off my nose.
Newsom ended single-family zoning in Cali so he is a god among inferiors.
As for Billionaire-owned, from your article:
Far from it.
Nah, he's just another rich and powerful crook looking out for the other rich and powerful crooks. Nothing new except the grin is extra smug
Can you copy-paste that article? The paywall is making it impossible to read.
That would take up far too much comment section real estate (pun intended), but have an archive.ph version of it without the paywall
I'm bout to overbuild on this real estate (keeping the pun rolling)
This is a fucking awesome first step.
This is what he did that I find exciting. Cali is a shit hole of local ordinances that fuck up the housing market
A flat out ban on SFH would be ideal, preferably nationwide, but this is a start. Campaigns are won one battle at a time.
I'm not from Cali either but I did some searching and found this
https://sd03.senate.ca.gov/news/20220928-governor-signs-sen-dodd%E2%80%99s-prescribed-fire-fund-bill#:~:text=Gavin%20Newsom%20has%20signed%20his,to%20do%20that%2C%E2%80%9D%20Sen.
That is one hell of a take.
Not really. Banning SFH doesn't exclude singly family homes from existing, but just bans excluding other forms of development
The president should also have zero influence on the supreme court. Yet there was this whole thing with Obama and such that led to Trump having the perfect window of opportunity to send MTG to stand.
I think you have that the wrong way around. According to the constitution, the President appoints a Supreme Court Justice with the Senate giving advice and consent. It's the Senate that's supposed to have the lesser role, but Mitch McConnell chose not to follow the spirit of the constitution on that.
At any rate, the House of Reps have never been a part of the process, so it has nothing to do with Pelosi, and never has.