[–] 14 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Fuck Booker. He’s a piece of shit centrist fuckface. He endorsed Bloomberg, DeBlasio and Adams when they all ran for NYC mayor, but he refused to endorse Mamdani lying that he “does not endorse mayoral candidates,” hoping/thinking people won’t remember or that they’re stupid.

He also didn’t endorse or speak very positively about El-Sayed.

AIPAC is pulling his strings. Fuck that guy.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

    All of that, that the bill isn’t perfect, and there might be loopholes, and it’s hard to actually figure out what “assets” are, and on and on. Never mind the fact that any starting point would be better than nothing.

    I mean even fucking Planned Parenthood came out against it [1], which is profoundly disappointing.

    Sergey Brin alone supposedly spent at least $100 million to defeat it [2]. The motherfuckers even funded three different poison pill props to neutralize it. Pretty much every tactic they could use they did. Newsome and Becerra being against it didn’t help either.

    1: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/planned-parenthood-billionaire-tax-california-22336650.php

    2: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-fight-the-billionaire-tax/

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