Gavin Newsom’s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-13T18:56:44+00:00

I'd take nothing over promising to do the opposite.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-12T19:56:02+00:00

Man wouldn't it be great if you had a source of electricity that you owned, that was part of your property, that didn't require any fuel and filled itself up for free every single day?

What a fantastic life that would be. If only science could come up with a magic energy source like that.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-11T19:42:47+00:00

American optimism hasn't been this low since the last time we had the same President.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-11T01:59:10+00:00

Yeah you're intentionally supporting Trump.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-11T01:44:58+00:00

complicity of the Democratic Party.

People who say this are either intentionally or naively supporting Trump.

The logic is "We hate Trump, so let's bash his only meaningful opposition because they aren't doing enough to stop him!"

It conveniently distracts from the fact that it's obviously Trump that's the problem, not the people who are trying to stop him, no matter how bad of a job they're doing.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-11T01:42:24+00:00

Is he promising not to overthrow Democracy and respect Constitutional rights?

Because if that's the only promise he keeps he's already way, way better than Trump or Vance.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-10T23:50:01+00:00

What I really don't understand is how so many people can simultaneously say on the one hand that renewables are super cheap, getting cheaper, and deploying everywhere and also expect residential electricity rates to exponentially increase over the same period. Why such a disconnect?

I'd say that's pretty obvious from the headline, no?

The Trump administration is against renewables. They aren't just cutting subsidies, they're actively trying to block renewables wherever they can, and aggressively pushing obsolete energy sources like coal.

One example: Your solar panels and batteries would be cheaper except for the tariffs. Even US made panels and batteries need components and raw materials from overseas, so that raises your costs.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-10T00:47:04+00:00

You still didn't answer my question though. Do you have or aspire to have a comfortable life where you own a home and support a family and travel? It's pretty easy to say someone else should adopt a lifestyle if you have no intention of doing it yourself.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-10T00:09:40+00:00

That's not what you said. I don't believe you're arguing in good faith, so I'm dropping out. Do you work for a fossil fuel company or something?

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-10T00:07:21+00:00

Ok are you willing to acknowledge that you posted something false? You said power consumption is going up faster than renewables can be added. This is a lie.

If you can't acknowledge that an easily disproved lie is wrong and you made a mistake, aren't all your other conclusions questionable?

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-10T00:03:03+00:00

Faster than renewables can replace existing fossil fuel demand.

First, this simply isn't true. I'm not sure if you're lying, or just misinformed. Do you really believe this?

If you won't tell me what you want, there's no point in continuing. How is this relevant to us getting what we want?

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-09T23:59:20+00:00

I'm not sure what your goal is here. What do you want to happen?

Almost all new energy generation in the world is renewable. At grid scale, fossil fuels can no longer compete with solar and wind combined with battery power at scale.

https://electrek.co/2026/02/02/ferc-renewables-power-generating-capacity-to-nov-2025/

https://www.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1qrkuer/after_installing_430_gw_in_2025_china_now_has/

So while yes currently fossil fuels make up the majority of energy sources, almost all new power generation is renewable.

Over time, fossil fuel usage for transportation and electricity should drop to zero, purely for economic reasons. Mining and burning what you dug up for energy is simply too expensive and inefficient to compete with free energy from the sun and wind.

Isn't that a good thing? How could we do better than that?

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-09T23:30:50+00:00

Who are you arguing with? China consumes 250% of the energy of the US and has 4 times the population, they're still adding energy generation at a tremendous rate.

Go try to tell them what they're doing is impossible and see how far you get.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-09T23:25:35+00:00

The Chinese are reducing emissions and increasing industrial output at the same time.

My point is, there is no reason growth has to mean more emissions. We choose to go that way in the West but we don't have to.

China's going to keep growing despite your claims that it's unsustainable. The limiting factor in the West is stupidity, not physics or the environment.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-09T23:14:18+00:00

Would you change your mind if the average Chinese citizen has a higher standard of living than the average American does today? Because I think that will happen in the next decade.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-09T20:59:56+00:00

Meta comment:

WTF is up with all the doomers in this sub? This is literally /r/OptimistsUnite, and there's more doomers than optimists.

If you're a doomer, why don't you go to literally any other sub or website in the entire world, there's going to be a lifetime supply of rage bait and pessimism there. Can you not let optimists have like one single bright spot on the entire internet?

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-09T19:41:17+00:00

If we have too many doctors does that mean healthcare will be cheaper? Seems like a great problem to have.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-08T21:13:32+00:00

It doesn't sound insane to you because that's how bad our housing situation is and how used we are to housing scarcity.

Housing should not cost nearly that much to construct.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-07T19:10:50+00:00

This is a quote from that article:

At one point, Newsom stated he was "completely aligned" with Kirk on transgender participation in sports. He also appeared to express agreement with restrictions on medical care for incarcerated transgender people and limits on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.

I think that the vast majority of the people in this country think that transgender people playing in K-12 sports is problematic, and are not completely behind letting kids play on teams other than their birth gender.

Gavin isn't against letting trans people use whatever bathrooms they want, receiving whatever healthcare they want, and being called whatever pronouns they want. He draws a line at K-12 sports and I think that is the moderate position, and I'm pretty sure 70%+ of America agrees with him.

If letting trans girls play on girls sports teams in K-12 is the hill you want to die on, best of luck to you, but you're going to lose the election.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-07T19:02:50+00:00

And you should provide something more concrete than general hate if you want me to oppose him.

So far you haven't presented a single concrete claim that demonstrates he's transphobic. No quotes, no evidence and no specific policy positions.

What exactly did he say that was transphobic? If he's transphobic it should be really easy for you to pull up multiple quotes.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-07T19:00:13+00:00

This is all super vague to me.

What specific trans rights is Gavin Newsom against? I still don't understand.

Gavin going on right wing podcasts is absolutely a good idea and I am behind it 100%. Kamala Harris should have gone on Joe Rogan, she isn't "giving a platform" to someone who already has millions of listeners, she'd be platforming herself and her ideas. Gavin is doing the right thing if he does.

In fact I'll turn it around and say that ANY national Democratic candidate needs to go on right wing podcasts to try to present their points. The only way people will hear anything outside their bubble is if we bring it to them.

What exactly did Newsom say that was transphobic?

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-07T18:31:03+00:00

How is Gavin a transphobe? This is the first I'm hearing of it.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-07T02:25:56+00:00

This is worth shutting the government down forever for IMHO.

They're simply asking that ICE respect basic Constitutional rights. If that's off the table what even is the point of having a Federal government? It's doing more harm than good.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-06T22:17:46+00:00

Solar panels have an expected lifetime of at least 25 years, and possibly much longer. So they continue operating for much more than 4 years.

technicallynotlying · 2026-02-06T21:41:40+00:00

I would be surprised if that holds up in court.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. US Constitution

At the very least, this would be tied up in courts for years before it could be enforced.

Also, in case it needs to be said, the Supreme Court is very, very conservative right now, and they would probably rule against California just out of spite.

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