California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the governor was denied entry into a venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, after being invited to speak at the event due to “pressure” from the Trump administration.
Newsom had been scheduled to speak with Fortune at the USA House, Davos, a privately organized event, at the World Economic Forum, which has been recognized by the U.S. government as the nation’s headquarters in Davos.
Time for my least favorite game!
“Imagine a Democrat did that to a Republican!”
… Fox News would be running that story for a week, screaming at the public about how they’re being discriminated against and how the Democrats hate freedom and free speech. How they hate “you” and your “values” etc etc etc…
That’s pretty good, but it has two extra red stripes in the tent.
I could go for some Red Stripe. Think they’ll let me in?
Yeah and then he ripped them a new one at the event that he did end up speaking at in Davos.
Under Newsom, California is the 4th largest GDP on the planet and the Davos losers listened to racist, pedophile, rapist, felon fucknut!?!?
Clown governor getting the standard Trump pimp slap.
This man is never going to be president if Donald Trump can bully him so easily
No idea why you’re being downvoted. Likely the Liberal Mob with the “he’s better than what we’ve got” mentality.
Newsom might be good at trolling Trump, but he’s a garbage Neolib dick-weasel.
I think Newsom has a mob that idolises seeing him do theatrical owns of MAGA and confuses that with having a plan or substance and I think they see criticism of that as not fighting enough against MAGA
I don’t know how you see his soundbites at Davos and don’t notice they are for domestic US voters and have no substance besides a performative campaign akin to Trump’s strongman
Those owns are fun and good, but they’re not Newsome. His Twitter lady can just go work for a good candidate. He himself is worthless.
I like to refer to the folks that believe in him (and people like him) as Blue MAGA.
Don’t forget BlueAnon too. The people currently arguing with me in a separate post about how we shouldn’t be complaining about all the inaction from Democrats because now’s not the right time to act and they’ve totally got some 4D chess move planned for the future - COMING SOON®™
“Gavin Newsom-” aaand the comments are flooded lmao. I mean, I despise Newsom as much as I can, but, also, this is World News.
In the spirit of a non-USA news subreddit, I’ll point out that California governor Newsom feels like a weird speaker for a world economic event. Yes, I know Newsom had to deal with the Republican administration when ICE and the military were deployed to Los Angeles, CA; but if you’re looking for a leader to advise you on opposing Trump from an economic standpoint, wouldn’t an economic department head from Canada be a better choice?
Canada’s been dealing with Republican isolationist tariff policy fairly well from what I know. Facing the most direct pressure over the “51st state” invasion threats, the Canadian population is pushing away from USA brands and investing in domestic products. With alllll the nations facing tariffs from the USA, surely a dialogue about encouraging such shifts in a population would be valuable.
He was scheduled to speak in the US House (a part of the Davos conference). So no a Canadian doesn’t make much sense there.
California has the fourth largest economy in the world.
it out-performs Canada.
so yeah, it makes sense to have him there as a speaker.
if you’re talking about policy choices, canada has a lot more relevance to a world economic forum though. ata bare minimum, california is a lot more constrained in how it can behave, making its solutions largely only relevant to the context of other US states - unless you’re talking purely social/soft solutions
If they push for something like emission standards in the US, other states get drawn in since OEMs need to adhere to California and it’s often easier just to make the 1 product everywhere, but that also ripples outside the country to some extent.
I don’t know where you got that idea from. doesn’t make sense when you think about it.
do you really believe there are economic constraints on a state in the largest economic country that holds capitalism in the highest regard?
… yes…
canada can do basically whatever it wants theoretically
california can’t use its national guard without risk of federalisation, its can’t issue tariffs or any kind of trade controls, it can’t even stop giving money to the aggressor via taxes to finance its own aggression
hell california apparently can’t even stop the federal government from doing blatantly illegal shit
and what does that have anything to do with a world economic forum?
what do trade controls and taxation have to do with global economics…? is that what you’re asking?
so you’re just talking out your ass. my fault for expecting anything out of some rando on the internet.
California is probably the most powerful state in the US and more than some EU countries
Given that snivelling Nigel Fucking Farage spoke at one of the Davos events the bar can’t be that high.
putin had to hastily had thaw him from the SIBERIAN permafrost for quick talking points.
Good point. Newsome manages the fourth-largest economy in the world and Farage . . . well, I seem to remember something about a bus and the NHS, but I don’t think anything ever came of it, lol
Fuck republicans and fuck Newsom!
If he wins the primary he’s got my vote I tell you what.
I mean, a devil with hooves would be a better president than Trump. It could do much less damage.
But Newsom? Yea, he’s also right around there somewhere. He is a 100% just another puppet for the same billionares as Trump is (Thiel, Tech bros, Murdoch, Bibi etc.).
Nothing would change for the better under him. The ultra-rich would keep on getting richer, while everyone else would keep on sliding down. Fully 2/3 of the US citizens now live paycheck to paycheck. Both Trump and Newsom would be mainly working on bringing this up to 95-99%. Which would be causing even more (well deserved) unrest. And so Newsom would/is blaming the migrants for this, just the same. I mean, somebody has to be the scapegoat, so people don’t realise the rich would need to be taxed. And migrants are the obvious, already well-propagandised choice. Maybe ICE would murder and brutalise a few less people under Newsom, but even that is not guaranteed.
Bad link, ads for days
Edit: I can only assume the downvoters are ad providers fuck you
Probably the same company that owns the USA network. Watching shows on that network will make you want throw your tv out the window. 6 minute ads per 4.5 minutes of show time. Their ads just keep gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooing. And yes. That’s how absurd they are.
Not even close to being a vaguely related company.
This is really funny considering Trump and Newsome seem to agree on quite a few things
I would one thousand percent prefer Newsom over Trump and I almost guarantee Newsom wouldn’t send his brownshirts into red states to shoot mothers.
Our standards have fallen so low
I mean a lot of us have been voting blue no matter who for our entire adult lives and things keep ratcheting right into Nazi land
I’ve been voting that way too. I question it often but haven’t changed my mind yet.
I might have an issue with “vote blue no matter who” were it not for the fact that the morons around us are voting by the tens of millions FOR Nazi land!
They had the opportunity to vote for the center-right corporate-friendly administration that will probably not get much progressive stuff done because they have the same billionaire donors.
But no, they voted for the idiotic criminal self-labeled dictator THREE TIMES! They cared more about who could get hurt (LGBT, minority, female, “other”) than whether we could actually improve society.
The DNC shares a ton of blame too. I don’t mean to leave them out of it. I hope that some young progressive voices can drag the party to the left. It would be great to not be forced into a two party system in the first place of course, but I worry that the only way such a change will happen any time soon is that a lot of people die and then the survivors write new rules.
The democrats just voted to give ICE more money. They always do this and then we ratchet right into Nazi land… I’m getting pretty old and this always happens. I’ve watched it my entire life the democrats don’t ever do anything to stop the evil. They enable it every time
Exactly. Americans need to do something else because there isn’t any voting their way out of this. Keep voting democrat, but know that it wont actually fix anything. It’s not meant to.
If they are homeless or trans, Newsome is happy to arrest or shoot them.
He broke the marriage equality impasse. Without him I might not be married.
He protects LG rights and maybe BQ, but he has consistently vetoed T rights. I’m straight AF so this doesn’t affect me directly, but it affects my friends, so I care that he doesn’t.
To be clear, I voted for Newsome, because the Democratic party didn’t give me a choice. I’d primary him if I could.
Newsome is going to enable the tech billionaires and Israel so basically we will keep marching in lockstep with project 2025 with funny tweets. He has been fighting the one time 5% billionaire tax proposal in California and he vetoes everything that upsets shareholder profit in California.
with funny tweets
Those are from a team of social media savvy folks. He’s demonstrated that he doesn’t always understand his own tweets.
They aren’t even all that funny to be honest.
In context of him mocking trump, they absolutely are.
Do you purposefully misspell his name?
I do. Ok, sometimes I write tRUMP, but most of the time my keyboard just types obese orange child rapist all by itself…
ITT, idealists once again letting perfect be the enemy of good.
It’s worked so well the past few elections.
He is not good, he even denied genocide in Gaza and protected billionaires
And had photo-ops while clearing homeless camps.
He’s not Trump, but most of Trump’s donors would neither mind nor care.
Don’t forget all the transphobia too!
would only apply if Gavin Newsom was “good”.
This is exactly the time to be going after libs like Newsom. Move the party left before primaries.
Stop saying that bullshit nonsense. He is not “good”. We don’t demand perfection, we demand that these people don’t be genocidal right wing fascist light.
I hate whatever pundit told you all to say “dont let perfect be the enemy of good.” It makes me feel like I’m talking to a bunch of programmed robots.
It’s a saying that isn’t new.
I welcome critique if Newsom before the primaries. I love AOC and sanders and walz as much as anyone here, but until one of them is electable, we’re kinda stuck in this chicken or the egg problem here. Like it or not, and to be clear i do not, someone with true leftist bona fides isn’t yet electable in the US. The best we can hope for is someone who can listen and change their mind.
How many times do you guys have to lose against Trump before you realize that the candidates you’re backing aren’t electable? You haven’t even tried a candidate that is true bonafide leftist.
Except mamdani. Who won his election.
youre giving up before there are even primaries. You dont want a leftist in the primaries?
As a voter in the primaries I go leftist. But if I’ve got money on the outcome, it’s someone like Newsom.
Newsom is unelectable and will not beat Trump or a Trump surrogate in the next federal election, and will not do anything to fix what Trump has done if he does get elected. It doesn’t matter how much voter shaming you do. Understand this, please, for the love of God. I do not want my country to have to go to war against yours.
The Democrats have had nothing but people like Newsom since the 1980s but you think that’s the best course of action? He was invited there because he would only talk about cultural grievances and not the economic ones that the wealthy are currently causing.
Nobody wants perfect. A neoliberal Democrat winning will just continue the kleptocracy while lying to us about it. Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are controlled opposition.
Also, Ben Shapiro, the lying little shit ran circles around him on Newsom’s podcast. Made him seem like a weak bitch.
The Democrats have had nothing but people like Newsom since the 1980s but you think that’s the best course of action?
Well, they won every popular vote except two, so don’t be so quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater
Yes, Obama ran on hope, change and anti-war… A litera promised leftist revolution. What did we get? More centrists. Democrats lost over 1000 seats in state and federal offices. Bankers in charge of policing banks. George W Bush and his cronies walking free after years on criminal activity by his administration.
Biden was just the result of the DNC and all of the centrists grouping together to defeat Bernie Sanders for the second time.
Because at the time of the general election all other options left of center right are effectively removed with no support from the democratic party. They basically haven’t even pretended to have a democratic primary since Obama in 2008, instead choosing to coronate whoever the super delegates choose, which has worked true wonders for the party /s. They’re already starting the motions to do this again with their next center right candidate in Newsom.
Well, they won every popular vote except two, so don’t be so quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater
Why not run a charismatic candidate with popular policy and win the electoral college too?
We’re not trying to tie one hand behind our backs to impress our dads, we should do what has the best chance of actually winning…
The options have been rather poor, let’s all be honest here. This would work if we were talking about say, AOC. Newsom, however, is bad. Very bad.
Very bad is a sliding scale. And he ain’t that. I’m in California and see it first hand, it’s 55% good.
Ask some trans people about this if you know any. If you don’t, ask 196, there’s plenty there.
That’s a failing grade. Bring barley better than coin flip on bad decisions is not worth pre settling for.
The fucker is a democrat trump.
Jesus fucking Christ how deluded are you?
