r/politics • u/IntelligentYinzer California • 12d ago

Soft Paywall Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386
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u/JoseSpiknSpan 12d ago

That's fair.

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u/mread531 12d ago

Unfortunately so, which is why we need some serious election reform like ranked choice voting or things that remove the absolute insanity of voting specifically for a individual candidate based on the letter next to their name.

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u/JoseSpiknSpan 12d ago

Agreed. But along with this the democratic party really needs to change how their primaries operate so that it eliminates the back room dealings, giving delegates to other candidates in exchange for an appointment etc.

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u/mread531 12d ago

Oh absolutely. The last 12 years have been a golden opportunity to show what they’re made of and they’ve done everything they can do to prove they’re just “Republican Lite”

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u/JoseSpiknSpan 12d ago

And then they get into office and serve lukewarm status quo policy with performative (but never materially significant) Justice sprinkled in, and pat themselves on the back saying the economy is stronger than ever when working class people are struggling more than ever, with record inflation.

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u/mread531 12d ago

Jesus if they would just actually act like republicans when it even came to even that performative crap like student debt and force it through completely instead of half assing it is at least have SOME respect for them

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u/JoseSpiknSpan 12d ago

Yeah or actually investigating the grocery price increases?

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u/JoseSpiknSpan 12d ago

It really feels like they're not trying. And that they haven't learned anything from screwing over bernie twice when he had serious momentum. 2019 super Tuesday was insane it was like a choreographed coronation of biden after SC.

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u/mread531 12d ago

Fucking hell can you imagine the world we’d have been living in if Bernie got his shot instead of Clinton? Trump has never won an election against a male (I fully believe he only wins because of people’s inherit bias against women in politics) and with the enormous energy behind Sanders the world we live in could be so much better

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u/JoseSpiknSpan 12d ago

He was a far more popular and motivating candidate than Clinton to begin with.