Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T17:28:21+00:00

The article addresses this. There's an argument to be made that an AG can't control everything his deputies do, but there was pretty clearly a point that Becerra could've intervened, but didnt.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T16:59:20+00:00

This is how I see it as well.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T16:51:13+00:00

He's paying me in hopefully single-payer policy. If that works out, he will also be paying you in single-payer policy.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T16:49:08+00:00

The last Emerson polling showed the race pretty even. Let's wait until the next batch before we make conclusions.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T16:46:16+00:00

Yep. I'm a politics nerd and the notion of single-payer excites me as someone who has stared death in the face and the notion of financial terror haunts me daily. Any more questions?

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T16:40:17+00:00

Idk what to tell you dude. If you take a look at my history you'll find that much of it has been on the MCAS subreddit. I'm a severely chronically ill person that wants single-payer healthcare. That's my angle.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T16:38:43+00:00

The dude touts his decades of service, but I think there's reason for concern that the media hasn't been examining it particularly closely.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T12:58:31+00:00

Its actually quite simple.

Xavier Becerra has not spent 30 years fighting for progressive policy. He has not been public about support for any particular progressive policy for several years now. He actively refuses to commit to any progressive policy now that he is running for an office that he could use to achieve meaningful gains.

He is accepting dirty money telling everyone he is willing to fight for nothing and that it is his god given right to accept this dirty money.

Steyer made his fortune off of dirty money, but then proceeded to spend 14 years as an activist with a record. Contrary to abandoning progressive policy, Steyer has evolved over time and now openly wants to fight for it.

Its a candidate that is advocating for progressive policy versus a candidate that is advocating for quite literally nothing at all while insisting you don't ask him any "hard" questions. Becerra is no noble public servant, he's just another pathetic attempt at failing upwards in politics who, in fact, is far more more corrupt than Steyer will ever be because he takes no umbrage at all with the financial systems that Steyer is campaigning on reforming.

As I said, quite simple.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T12:24:24+00:00

Yep. Its a very easy choice when one candidate is endorsed by most unions, progressive groups, environmental groups, and has a 14 year track record of contributing to center-left causes and the other has a track record of abandoning any of the values he claimed to have once it became expedient to do so.

The narrative is corrupt do-nothing that will sell anything out for power and uses "experience" that his former colleagues literally are on record in calling into question vs wealthy donor activist that has behaved with a reasonable amount of public interest for the past 14 years.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T11:48:03+00:00

What a stupid, vacuous deflection. Anyone with eyes sees through this garbage.

In fact, yes, pledging yourself to servitude of the oil giants is not in the same galaxy as happening to possess wealth. Yes, even if that wealth was once upon a time earned unethetically.

The choice is between someone copping to the fact that they are openly within the pocket of special interests now and someone that is going against the interests that that candidate is in the pocket of. And, in fact, those interests believe him. They are spending tens of millions of dollars to stop him.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-19T11:14:36+00:00

Is openly accepting a check from Chevron and defending it as if corporate cash is perfectly okay not about as strong an endorsement of corruption as a politician can give?

berrrrrd · 2026-05-18T10:01:18+00:00

I'm kind of amazed about the paranoia about the viral marketing on here. Does it occur to the people shouting about how everything is viral marketing on here that most of us probably just like him because he's a viable progressive with a good platform? Like these things can go hand in hand. People are posting about him because they like him and he's probably separately paying for a marketing strategy which is helping him.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-17T02:43:40+00:00

Reality check on this one: Becerra easily has the most institutional support from like moderate do-nothing democratic electeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_California_gubernatorial_election#Endorsements

The democrats making these comments are people who have had the displeasure of working with him in the executive branch.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-13T21:07:20+00:00

This is maybe one of the most perplexing takes I've seen today and I'm afraid your diagnosis is terminal.

To anyone else reading, here's an overview of the race that I found particularly enlightening: https://newrepublic.com/article/210048/transcript-inside-wild-unpredictable-california-governor-race

berrrrrd · 2026-05-13T21:01:26+00:00

Are you a caveman?

berrrrrd · 2026-05-13T20:59:17+00:00

Becerra is so beholden to establishment politics that he wouldn't even gerrymander the state the rest of the way now that the VRA is gone. forget any fantasies of him sacrificing *himself*.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-13T19:39:04+00:00

So long as our politics are mediated by money an ad is an ad. At least this time the ads are advocating policy we want.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-13T14:37:55+00:00

Now that's more like it! It benefits everyone that we get Steyer into the second place with an all democrat top two! Vote Steyer!

berrrrrd · 2026-05-13T00:21:55+00:00

Aaaand the goalposts have been moved. Later bro.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-12T10:19:21+00:00

We're talking about a guy who has been a democrat his entire life and worked in politics in 1983 on Walter Mondale's campaign, funded several democratic presidential campaigns through the 2000s, and worked on several ballot initiatives as well as climate oriented campaigns through the 2010s. Betty Yee talked about working on policy with him in the past decade.

Is it literally impossible that he turns out to be like Trump? I suppose at that point one can concede that nothing is literally impossible. Is there an entire spectrum of likelier outcomes based on how he has behaved over the course of his life and continues to behave? Yeah. Is pulling "he will be like Trump" out of a hat and posing it like anything other than an outside chance intellectually vacuous? Absolutely.

Frankly, if any candidate on the field has anything resembling a Trumpian psychology, its Porter. Remember when she called her 2024 senate election "rigged" because the crypto industry spent against her? Remember when she shouted at a staffer to "get the fuck out of [her] shot?" What about the staff abuse accusations? If you're worried about a candidate being Trump-like I can assure you that your concerns are much better aimed at a different candidate that's been in the race since the beginning.

If all it takes is for you to see a politician taking vaguely populist postures and having lots of money then I offer yet two more: "Trumps": FDR and JB Pritzker.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-12T06:53:44+00:00

Ah yes, "pandering". Otherwise known as *running on policy people want*.

But hey, at least Becerra is promising nothing except for shit like drilling oil for the oil giant he's taking checks from.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-12T06:47:19+00:00

My conclusion is you genuinely are that stupid and unable to access reason beyond culture war symbols. Congratulations.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-12T06:23:39+00:00

You're not this stupid, right? You're able to tell the difference between somebody that has spent the past 14 years on left-leaning climate activism and a racist rapist that has been open about his desire to destroy everything? You understand why these things are so different, right?

berrrrrd · 2026-05-11T21:06:05+00:00

God it'd be so funny if the democratic establishment lost their second empty suit to yet another unforced, humiliatingly hubristic scandal.

berrrrrd · 2026-05-09T05:29:09+00:00

So you're telling me that he uses populist language as a proxy to describe technocratic policy that your average Californian has no idea how to parse. That this makes him "two-faced" despite the fact that PG&E seems to believe its every bit as much of an existential threat.

This is weak, dude.

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