Both Trump and his “border czar,” Tom Homan, have said California officials could face arrest if they’re perceived as impeding ICE operations.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back against threats of arrest by Trump administration officials, remaining defiant as he oversees clashes between law enforcement agents and protesters in response to immigration raids across Los Angeles while also managing an ongoing power struggle with the federal government.
In an interview for MSNBC with NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff, Newsom called Homan’s bluff, urging him to “just get it over with” and move ahead with the arrest.
“He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me,” Newsom said. “That kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go."
This guy sucks soooooo much. I hate that he’s probably going to use all this in a presidential bid.
It’ll probably work. In the unlikely event we do have another election. I’ll probably vote for him too. But he does suck when he’s not taking advantage of a fat orange shitbag. Just remember that.
Hi all, I hope people hear this and the post is not hidden. This is an insecure system, and talking on here about things you want to or will do will be used by the regime.
Please take this as it is meant. I fully appreciate the anger and the pain you are all feeling, and you are totally right to fight, but you must fight smart.
DO NOT LET YOUR ANGER GET THE BEST OF YOU. If this goes the way it’s looking like it might, direct fights with whatfever is left of the States’ forces is suicide, and the good guys need all the boots on the ground you can muster.
There are many veterans of the war on terror who are literal experts on the tactics needed to win this; seek them out.
Assume all coms are monitored because they are. Look after each other, people.
A friend who knows the score.
Fash on fash political theater. Fuck these creeps.
He’s not perfect but Newsom’s one of the few political figures resistance to the Trump regime can crystallize around. Yes I’m well aware he’s the type of guy who’d like to find common ground with these assholes but he’s at least willing to risk provoking Trump’s goons into overextending themselves.
I look forward to Trump having this guy arrested shortly followed by Arnie coming out of retirement, tooling up, and taking the fight to the orange man. “I told you I’d be back!”
Don’t think for a second Newsom is a hero just because he opposes Trump. He’s a very corrupt individual.
Honestly, short of some miracle undoing this whole mess, this was a flavor of outcome I was quietly hoping for. At some point, politicians are going to realize - much like the president’s base - that they’re going to lose power unless they mount some kind of opposition. For the very worst ones out there, power is kind of their whole bag. Take it away and they get very angry; they may even do something about it. It’s kind of the tacit driving force behind any “checks and balances” scheme: power-hungry bastards trying to out-power-hungry-bastard each other. In a gross way, we kind of depend on it.
Last time we fought fascism we allied with lots of adversaries to take down the larger threat. I’m down for doing that again.
not nearly as bad but yeah, hea basicslly republicans from a decade ago cosplaying as a democrat, appeals to the california republicans, or like not appeals, calms them down enough or whatever
What is it about important blue states, like California and New York, that keep voting for corrupt pieces of shit(Eric Adams)‽ Again and again¿ Like I’m an out and loud proud social democrat in probably the reddest state, but it gets exhausting trying to juxtapose that with trying to tell people how corrupt every single repuglican is.
$0.02: good people know enough to not take the job, let alone run for it. It’s expensive to run for office, doesn’t pay enough, eats up your life, you’re constantly advertising to stay employed, and your co-workers are all politicians. It’s very much a “I offer myself as tribute” kind of a situation, even for extraordinary people.
Meanwhile, a corrupt person knows that it’s worth all the trouble if you convert political power into (illegal) money.
Yep, I had a friend that was one of those I can change the world types. He was major of a place for a while, he said it sucked because you can barely accomplish anything, ans if your staff doesn’t like your ideas they work against you in subtle ways like not bringing you the relevent information on topics or reports etc. Basically clandestine backstabbing all term
Liberalism is a fascist ideology.
I’ll take a Trotsky over a Stalin any day. Besides, this is Hollywood shit. The gov of California is a relatively blanched position. It’s a showpony job by design. Newsom has power here because everyone that has power in Sacramento and in the county system supports him. Everybody fucking despises Trump except the neonazis at this point.
If I am a betting person, and if Trump doesn’t arrest him sooner, I would bet that Newsom will run for president near 2028, and that is when Trump will have him arrested.
So are you? A betting person?
In the case of Trump? No. The dude is unpredictable.
Newsome will definitely run for president, and HitlerPig knows it, that’s why he’s going after him now.
Alexei Navalny would advise Newsome to not get arrested easily. Fight these fascists at every turn.
Newsom is a complete coward lol, he is NOT resisting Trump meaningfully.
Are you?
Are you?
No, but I’m also not berating people for not doing more.
You seem fine judging people saying they’re not doing enough. I mean, you wouldn’t do that unless you were walking the walk right?
Or are you just a keyboard warrior lol. Yelling at people to do stuff you’re not ready or willing to do. You want everyone to fix your problems for ya huh?
But you didn’t answer my question because you know all that.
are you insane?
Still haven’t answered the question, just tossing insults, like a child.
Am I insane? I’m not the one crying that people aren’t fighting for me hard enough while I do nothing. Demanding others do what you won’t.
You’re new here, from reddit I’d guess, it shows my guy. Get out of here with your nonsense.
dude what is your deal?
I mean this is exactly what i would call resisting, but i agree he is a shithead.
If this is “resisting” then we’re doomed.
How is it resisting to say “arrest me”?
It’s not. It’s just more political theater. These two creeps were made for each other.
Even if dude is arrested, it’ll just be a brief show for the cameras
How do you not see that it is resistance? What a bizarre question
Because dude hasn’t done shit except disingenuously offer to sit in a cell.
Because it signals noncompliance, fucking obviously. And it is consistent with the lawsuit he’s filing, so it’s not just empty words.
JFC.
“I’m not going to do what you want so you will have to come down here and drag me away”
Damn, Rosa Parks really should have tried resisting instead of just sitting in the front of the bus and refusing to move until she was dragged out by cops.
A lot of people here are unable to accept that shitty people they hate can sometimes be right.
This is just two shitty showboats both benefiting.
I can understand people being pissed at him since every Californian cop has been taking the national guard’s side against the protesters so far
dude the californian cops have been far worse than the national guard. i’m not really sure what you’re talking about with this side thing. watch the videos man, the cops are the ones being super aggressive. national guard is just kinda standing back most of the time.
The national guard is under his command. The President needs his permission to be mobilized federally, with certain exceptions that require them to be used against an external enemy.
He should have gone to the NG and ordered them to stand down. Because their current orders were doubley illegal.
Get em Gavin
True Leftists are fun. They complain when you do, and they complain when you don’t.
Anyone that uses the term ‘leftist’ is a fuckwit.
You don’t have to like the term, but you probably shouldn’t describe everyone who uses a term you don’t like as a “fuckwit.”
You may find this helpful when discussing US political differences on the left-hand side of the aisle: https://helpfulprofessor.com/leftist-vs-liberal/
Downvote all you like, but terms like that are just tribal bullshit that helps no-one.
I only got to downvote once, though.
Who are you talking about and how is it related to this story?
Hopefully these comments are the ones that will make it clear just how hard the “Democrats bad” narrative is being pushed on Lemmy.
They want us to focus more on the Dems than the people actually implementing fascism. They want to manipulate the next election, and they’re starting early. It will get worse.
It’s much more effective to fracture a group by pretending to be part of it than by leveling criticism from the outside.
Exactly. And it’s going to work despite the few comments we leave here pointing it out.
“Democrats bad narrative”
Idk, the actions of the governor of the state where national guard and potentially military are being mobilized against Americans exercising their first amendment rights, seems kind of relevant to the whole thing.
Yes the part where he is opposing that and not the one implementing it is relevant
Good point. The protestors do that and more and they have a fraction of the power Newsom has. It’s pathetic.
tactic has worked fucking incredibly so far. why stop now.
It’s an iteration on r/thedonald.
Just like there, some of it is genuine. And more of it is genuine because it’s easy and fits in with the “consensus”.
Luckily the mod/admin powers here aren’t being used to assist it, unlike previous times.
Please go away.
Username checks out.
True leftists beat Mussolini into an unrecognizable piece of meat and hung him from his ankles
None of the people posting on this site are ‘true leftists’ they’re keyboard warriors.
Hi, actual leftist here.
Is Newsom a garbage person, a slimy politician with no real core beliefs, who just tight rope walks a balance between the desires of his constituents, and his wealthy donors?
Yes.
Can garbage people actually do the right thing from time to time, be on the right side of an issue?
Also yes.
Keep it up Newsom, this is the kind of ‘fuck you, make me!’ energy/vibe/whatever we need to actually have a shot at resisting Trump from within the system, instead of basically being completely on our own.
Maybe this will be a genuinely radicalizing experience for him.
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I would love for there to be an actual, formal, ‘legitmate’ body or group of people actually, effectively, resisting Trump, instead of wringing their hands and complaining about how powerless they are.
Politics is the game of acquiring and wielding power.
Sitting down and crying about how you don’t know what to do is cucking yourself, and makes all your supporters into simps for a cuck.
Sorry to use the colorful language, no kink-shaming if thats your thing in the bedroom, but that is how I feel, and being a simp in the context of politics and governance is… not the place for such behavior.
If on the other hand we get some actually useful resistance from ‘legitimate’ officials, well then that means there might be a chance at ‘legitimately’ reaisting… but its going to mean a whole lot of libs are gonna have to learn how to actually play hardball the way Republicans have been the last 20 years… the way Gavin is here.
Is Newsom a garbage person, a slimy politician with no real core beliefs, who just tight rope walks a balance between the desires of his constituents, and his wealthy donors?
Yes
Got any good news articles about this? I don’t see much about him except his podcast and headlines like these. But nothing ever dives into who he actually is and some might call him a “garbage person”.
He’s been a proponent of a lot of right-wing talking points and stupid policies that run against what most left-leaning people in California want. Most recently he endorsed a bill that would require an absolutely criminally obtuse asset-check to get disability insurance in the wealthiest state in America, a state which is wealthier than most countries.
He doesn’t support trans athletes, he has worked to end homeless encampments without providing them an option, he’s been anti-union and snuggles with people like Charlie Kirk.
That’s just what I know for myself without looking up sources, just what I remember as I have followed Cali news.
But all that said, yes, as /u/[email protected] said, you can support someone when they are fighting for what you believe in, and despite my knowledge that Newsom is a giant snake, he’s doing and saying the right things here and I support it.
A lot of people who aren’t terminally online would be shocked at just how divisive this issue is among leftists, but I am quite sure that’s just because leftists/progressives are so deprived of being able to have intellectual debates, since you can’t have intellectual arguments with the right, that they’re forced to infight just to exercise mental capacity to some degree.
For an appetizer, read up on how during COVID lockdowns he was still out dining at Michelin restaurants. For your main course, learn about how much money he has personally invested in the corrupt “public” utility PG&E. Then for dessert listen to the Behind the Bastards podcast about how truly heinous and evil Dr. Mehmet Oz is, and ask yourself why anybody would ever give that sentient snail a platform of legitimacy.
I missed the part where Newsome is actually impeding ICE.
“Comfortable, wealthy neoliberal who does interviews with and works with fascists and is not personally targeted by them bravely says some macho stuff while his state’s residents get disappeared and shot at.” Is the actual headline here, but Gavin is hoping that a little grandstanding will let him make a presidential run later without actually doing anything for his constituents. He should be doing so, so much more than he is and yet so many people seem desperate for a win that they are willing to call this a victory rather than like, a potential signal that he might, potentially, care about his citizens a little, hypothetically.
How exactly is Newsome impeding ICE?
They’re talking about arresting teachers for protecting their kids. They are not talking about Newsome cuz he’s sueing the government. But yeah, go and make this issue about your ego and presidential run bud.
He’s not impeding anything, but Republicans love manufacturing an alternate reality that justifies their violent thugishness.
Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, warned Saturday that immigration operations and the presence of federal personnel would continue in the city despite criticism from Democratic leaders who’ve warned it could further escalate protests. He threatened arrest for anyone who obstructs the immigration enforcement effort, including Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — though he acknowledged that neither yet had “crossed the line.”
Cross the line, Gavin. Cross the line and we’ll believe it’s not an idle threat. Until then you’ll always be Patrick Bateman to me.
Let’s see Stephan Miller’s card…
The tasteful thickness of it…oh my God it even has a swastika watermark.
The illegal deportations were the fucking line that was crossed. Put those fuckers on the defensive and don’t let them abuse language like this.
“That kind of bloviating is exhausting.”
Bloviate - talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.
Instantly added to my lexicon. There’s another word I’ve often used when I should have been using this one, because the other word (malapropism) isn’t exactly what I am meaning a lot of the time but it was the closest thing to what I was trying to convey (someone talking out of their ass in a way that tries to sound intelligent when it isn’t).
If ya want another one for thine lexicon might I suggest gormless? It’s when one lacks intelligence or vitality. You can insult someone’s intelligence and their dick if you are clever enough.
I keep a message chain to myself for new words - here’s my most recent:
architectonics, antimonies, deracinated, vituperative, idempotent, moither, uxorious, voussoir, integumented, exuviated, entelechy.
moither
That’s the opposite of foither! 😃
I hate the word so much because Bill O’Reilly used to constantly use it back in his hayday (early 2ks) so I associate it with him.
I remember that and even as a teenager it drove me nuts because that is exactly what his entire news slot was …him , bloviating. Fuck that guy
Gavin Newson kept California safe during the peak uncertain times of COVID.
Gavin Newson survived a recall that was initiated by the trump blowhards in Orange County and the Central Valley.
We do NOT NEED 2,000 national guards deployed to L.A. Trump WANTS to make things escalate, and 2,000 troops WILL make things escalate.
Your dipshit dictator is siccing military troops on citizens. This is war against citizens.
He did some great things during the peak but, since, he’s frequently been nothing but a corpo ghoul. Sabotaging efforts to break up convicted killer and "power company"1, PG&E. Supporting rate increases so that the board of convicted killer and “power company”, PG&E didn’t have to face any actual penalties for killing people. Adamantly opposing any wealth tax. Putting significant support behind RTO/quiet layoffs.
I was a supporter for a while, but the more I get to know him, the less I like him. He’s just another Corporatist Republican-Lite Democrat, and those are the losers that got HitlerPig elected in the first place. If he becomes President, HitlerPig, or someone worse, will be back in office in 2032.
I want the next Democratic president to be an aggressive, no apology, hard core reformer, who isn’t afraid to stand up to Sociopathic Oligarchs and Traitors.
Yup. I’ve been pissed off at him since he started using the pied piper approach to avoid competition from the left, during Trump’s first term. He’s done a lot of good and bad since.
Well, shit. There’s a lot to not like about Newsom, but I can think of 100 democrat politicians that would have folded like wet Kleenex by now. He could be a lot more aggressive about this, but he’s clearly trying to exhaust all the normal channels. Critical support for Gavin.
Yeah I’m surprised he didn’t offer to switch parties, GJ Gavvy
