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no hay camino
Nov 22, 2013

No soy un pesimista, Tulio. Solo soy un optimista bien informado.

Well, it looks like I could easily find an appt here, lots of open slots. The MyTurn site was apparently wasting my time

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El Mero Mero
Oct 13, 2001



adoration for none posted:

Well, it looks like I could easily find an appt here, lots of open slots. The MyTurn site was apparently wasting my time

the other one that's quite good is VaccineSpotter. Every person who's struggled that I've sent that link to has been able to find one through there.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Yeah, just look directly at the websites of any place with a pharmacy: Safeway, Lucky, Nob Hill, Vons, Raleys, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Costco, Wal-Mart, and so on. Check your county's site, check your medical insurance site (Kaiser, BCBS, etc.), jump online at midnight and refresh everything. The appointments are out there (especially if you are willing to travel).

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019


FMguru posted:

Yeah, just look directly at the websites of any place with a pharmacy: Safeway, Lucky, Nob Hill, Vons, Raleys, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Costco, Wal-Mart, and so on. Check your county's site, check your medical insurance site (Kaiser, BCBS, etc.), jump online at midnight and refresh everything. The appointments are out there (especially if you are willing to travel).

Yeah if you’re free to get online all day, can travel at a moment’s notice, and are highly computer literate, then just check one of a dozen websites. Easy peasy!

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.





Centrist Committee posted:

Yeah if you’re free to get online all day, can travel at a moment’s notice, and are highly computer literate, then just check one of a dozen websites. Easy peasy!

i have been training for this my whole life

no hay camino
Nov 22, 2013

No soy un pesimista, Tulio. Solo soy un optimista bien informado.

Chauvin guilty

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Jacking Out; Jacking In



adoration for none posted:

Are you referencing the brutal traffic on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge or the fact that it's structurally deficient and you might get hit with falling concrete? Or all of the above?
Both, and also people commit suicide off GG. But honestly the Bay Bridge is worse. The 101 skyway heading east is just such a shitshow, even starting at 2pm it's worse than pre-pandemic. lol that the entire 101 merges down to essentially 1 lane

Golden Gate bridge kinda sucks a lot too but it's not quite as bad.

Kenning
Jan 10, 2009

I really want to post goatse. I wish I had 10bux




The only good bridge in the Bay is the eastern span of the Bay Bridge.

DukeDuke
Apr 14, 2012




Nap Ghost

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1385619992188702723?s=21

https://twitter.com/caitlyn_jenner/status/1385592674921578497?s=21

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

Life's too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
Life's too short not
To love everybody
Life is too long to hate




lmao

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

nice

Kenning
Jan 10, 2009

I really want to post goatse. I wish I had 10bux




gently caress yeah, California owns.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010






hell yeah let's get this clown car started

Nameless Pete
May 8, 2007

Get a load of those...

People are going to register to run for Governor just so they can get a blue Twitter checkmark, aren't they?

a.lo
Sep 11, 2009



It’s refreshing to see a celebrity outsider finally get things done

OMGVBFLOL
Dec 20, 2003


it would be california as gently caress to have the first openly trans governor be a fuckin republican

Kenning
Jan 10, 2009

I really want to post goatse. I wish I had 10bux




I'm already 100% Jennerpilled.

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve



Soiled Meat

Any goons gonna run?

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

Jenners shop uses WinRed for a shopping cart, isn't that the same one Trump used that charged people millions of extra dollars?


DukeDuke
Apr 14, 2012




Nap Ghost

Nameless Pete posted:

People are going to register to run for Governor just so they can get a blue Twitter checkmark, aren't they?

This is how Laura Loomer will try to get her Twitter account back

And I’ll laugh when Twitter still doesn’t let her back on

Hawkperson
Jun 20, 2003



OMGVBFLOL posted:

it would be california as gently caress to have the first openly trans governor be a fuckin republican

Ughhhhh it would, wouldn’t it

BeAuMaN
Feb 18, 2014

I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKER!


Shear Modulus posted:

hell yeah let's get this clown car started

no hay camino
Nov 22, 2013

No soy un pesimista, Tulio. Solo soy un optimista bien informado.

12% of the electorate is way too small of a quota to trigger a recall.

quote:

A petition to recall a statewide officer must be signed by electors equal in number to 12 percent of the last vote for the office, with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 percent of the last vote for the office in the county.

I imagine if (or maybe just when) this recall election crashes and burns we might see a proposition to raise it.

no hay camino fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Apr 23, 2021

no hay camino
Nov 22, 2013

No soy un pesimista, Tulio. Solo soy un optimista bien informado.

With a percentage that small I'm surprised we haven't seen more recalls.

E: it's unlikely the Republican candidate will win with 40% of the vote, but could a third party like the Greens maybe make Newsom sweat a bit? Get him to give up some concessions?

no hay camino fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Apr 23, 2021

BeAuMaN
Feb 18, 2014

I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKER!


adoration for none posted:

E: it's unlikely the Republican candidate will win with 40% of the vote, but could a third party like the Greens maybe make Newsom sweat a bit? Get him to give up some concessions?
No, it'll be some celebrity or tech mogul. Still waiting for The Rock to announce his candidacy in the recall election. Californians will choose a celebrity if they choose to recall at all (To be clear we'd all hope for better but... ).

droll
Jan 9, 2020


If a far left Goon wants to run, to pull a Mike Gravel and say some good poo poo during the debate, I pledge I will work hard to get them signatures from my city and throw some cash their way too.

Kenning
Jan 10, 2009

I really want to post goatse. I wish I had 10bux




We should get a group of goons to run as a hive mind.

Zachack
Jun 1, 2000






adoration for none posted:

With a percentage that small I'm surprised we haven't seen more recalls.

E: it's unlikely the Republican candidate will win with 40% of the vote, but could a third party like the Greens maybe make Newsom sweat a bit? Get him to give up some concessions?

Based on the 2020 results for president Newsom would be better off giving concessions to Libertarians, and the Green and P&F parties would be best served by openly and loudly supporting Newsom in the hopes that someone may realize they exist. I live in a county that has had actual Green Party people on the city council of a real town and they got beat 2:1 by the Libertarians.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

My sense is the best chance for removing Newsom (at the height of his mishandling of the pandemic disruption) has already passed. Vaccines are going into arms, infection and death rates are a sliver of what they were in Dec-Jan, businesses are reopening, and the economy is poised for a big rebound. The only thing left is the schools, which will probably announce full reopening schedules before the recall election is held.

Even at the worst, the polling never showed a majority for removal, and the most recent poll showed Newsom winning the recall question 56-40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_California_gubernatorial_recall_election#Newsom_recall

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





if we still did toxxes, I would toxx that Newsom would not get recalled. Should he be, though? I think he did some dumb stuff but not to a high enough level to get the boot.

Fill Baptismal
Dec 15, 2008


The Rock is a republican and I think an underrated choice to be the next Reagan who unleashes horrific austerity on Americans while being widely beloved both during and after his administration.

Left resurgence leads to aggressive government spending and industrial policy, creating an epoch of prosperity and stability that produces a cohort of reactionary FYGM shitheads the same way New Deal social democracy did, they vote in an affable and charismatic empty suit to let the CATO institute gut the welfare state and pull up the ladder behind them, millennials and GenZ insist that the problem is anyone born after 2035 just doesn't want to really work and save for a nice place behind the storm walls, I can see it all laid out so clearly I feel like it's already happened.

Fill Baptismal fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Apr 24, 2021

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another rainy day commute





sb hermit posted:

if we still did toxxes, I would toxx that Newsom would not get recalled. Should he be, though? I think he did some dumb stuff but not to a high enough level to get the boot.

In a vacuum sure, Newsom did some awful poo poo during COVID in the name of his own comfort and political security, and his rush to open 'er up to try and stave off recall is quite literally trading lives for his job. But we're not in a vacuum, and Gavin being recalled pretty much locks in him getting replaced by a right-wing nutter like Jenner or The Rock or whoever.

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.





droll posted:

If a far left Goon wants to run, to pull a Mike Gravel and say some good poo poo during the debate, I pledge I will work hard to get them signatures from my city and throw some cash their way too.

My policy points:
Eat the rich.
Public transit agencies under one state umbrella. Build light rail to golf courses.
Build 10 story state owned housing on every golf course.
Seize all hospitals to provide care for CA residents. UC can start accrediting medical doctors.
Execute the police.

No questions. Thank you, good night.

El Mero Mero
Oct 13, 2001



Yeah I don't actually think he's recall-level bad, just milquetoast disappointment bad.

VikingofRock
Aug 24, 2008




PYF potential celeb governor of CA, mine is Cheech Marin.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH


sb hermit posted:

if we still did toxxes, I would toxx that Newsom would not get recalled. Should he be, though? I think he did some dumb stuff but not to a high enough level to get the boot.

If it turns into a clown car mess without the well-polished presence Arnold had, I think the establishment Republicans look at this as an attempt from the kook base to subvert the primary system and join in shutting it down. Gavin's up literally next year, and they can have the candidate of their choosing instead of questions about why wasn't Jenner responsible for the death in that car crash.

Edit: You'll know when the state GOP sees Jenner as a threat when they start deadnaming her repeatedly. There's no reason to even try to appear inclusive to the queer alphabet while "just asking questions" about her, because the Democrats will probably be doing that tactic already.

Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Apr 24, 2021

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Nope



How many times do I have to tell people. If the recall happens, your new governor will be


El Mero Mero posted:

Yeah I don't actually think he's recall-level bad, just milquetoast disappointment bad.
Aside from French Laundry, his big sin was being a very, very effective States Rights counter to Tromp and then just kind of shirking off in favor of OPEN UP.

Like dude was agitating for a Western States Compact that would distribute ventilators and PPE when Tromp was raiding places so Kushner could sell it off. His budget helped keep schools funded through this year. Then he had his stupid brunch and lost all nerve and bent the knee a little to Trump because the fucker might win and he didn't want a vindictive idiot canceling all of the CA wildfire federal aid because Gavbot made Trump sad.

Granted, the state was hamstrung by a lot of idiocy and uncertainty at the federal level.

He doesn't rise to the level of recall. If loving Ted Cruz can nope of out Texas during IceStorm 2021 and retain his seat... but absolutely should be an example of CA needing actual progressive leadership.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH


FilthyImp posted:

Aside from French Laundry, his big sin was being a very, very effective States Rights counter to Tromp and then just kind of shirking off in favor of OPEN UP.

I've said it repeatedly through this thread: He repeatedly owns himself with displays of jet-set elitism that communicates how he deserving he is of privilege. The French Laundry is just the most obvious one. The biggest threat to defeating this recall is if he decides to do something like stop traffic on the Bay Bridge to hold a televised address on the span about the importance of infrastructure.

OMGVBFLOL
Dec 20, 2003


yeah, that's what's always been so frustrating about newsom; he's actually been pushing some legit progressive stuff throughout his career. cash assistance to unhoused folks, same sex marriage during the bush administration, and guaranteed admission to SFSU for all SF county high school grads who want it are the three that stand out in my memory of his time as mayor. he's no bernie though, not by a drat sight, and his businesses and developer connections plus his taste for fancy poo poo have always (rightfully) overshadowed his progressive planks. i've never been able to parse if he's a progressive who got corrupted or just a shrewd ladderclimber. it doesn't much matter; the results the same either way.

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Class Warcraft
Apr 27, 2006




Newsom put his presidential aspirations ahead of the lives of his constituents and got Californians killed. It was absolute cowardice, and he deserves to be recalled.

However, he would almost certainly be replaced by someone worse because our political system sucks rear end. I do think the moment has passed though, unless covid makes a huge comeback here between now and voting time.

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