Yeah, it's Katie Porter for me.

[rocketdyke@mastodon.social]

@mekkaokereke

100% with you.

Someone who is stressed and needs to learn anger management is far better than someone who coddles up to police unions.

And his stupid debate retort claiming that Porter had never governed. Um, she was in the House for years, Becerra.

[solearther@dustbuster.club]

@mekkaokereke

[mikecherry@infosec.exchange]

@spiegelmama @mekkaokereke methinks the problem is the ridiculously enormous political consulting apparatus that serves democrats. seems like most progressives that get elected try to tack more towards the moderate side of the party once they’ve won election and want to get reelected.

I understand many sell out (Sinema) but I can’t imagine the paydays are quite so lucrative outside of Congress, so why abandon your base that put you there in the first place? Does no one have principles they live by anymore?

I can’t remember the quote, so I’m gonna butcher my paraphrase of it, but, “I’d rather have enemies than none. It means I’ve lived a principled life.”

[cptsuperlative@toot.cat]

@mekkaokereke

JFC

People need to vote in the damn primaries.

Especially in primaries like CA’s.

WTF

[tojiro@mastodon.social]

@mekkaokereke *Sigh* I was warming up to Becerra because he seemed to have a good record elsewhere. Funny how this subject never seems to come up in the interviews.

[h2onolan@infosec.exchange]

@mekkaokereke cop fellating politicians are the worst scumbags. They lack the spine to even own their bigotry

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@mekkaokereke
So I'm riding my bicycle on the sidewalk approaching the community college. A Black man is ahead of me. It's the week Michael Brown got murdered.
I say, "coming up behind you."
He steps to the side and slowly raises both hands about a foot to the side as I ride by.
It took me a solid 30 seconds to replay and realize why he did that. I wish I had stopped and said "IT SUCKS THAT YOU HAD TO DO THAT!!!"
Yea, you're gonna lose me in a hurry if you are "cautious" about "police reform."

[rycaut@mastodon.social]

@mekkaokereke I agree.

But I'm also going to be very very very pragmatic in my voting in the upcoming "primary" - which ever Democratic candidate who is leading in the polls is almost certainly going to get my vote - even if the polls have Becerra and Streyer on top. I really want the fall election to be two Democratic candidates who can then run on who will do a better job.

What I don't want is any GOP candidate on the ballot in the fall

Am I happy? No but not a fan of the jungle primary

[rycaut@mastodon.social]

@mekkaokereke but since we have it - I'll vote accordingly. Would I much prefer rank choice or something similar - yes. Is that likely here in CA? Nope. or at least not anytime soon.

Until then keeping CA in the firmly blue camp is really important - not least because I'm a taxpayer, homeowner, and parent here and I shudder to think what a mess we could be in for if a MAGA GOP candidate wins in the fall.

And no it's not great.

[mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io]

@Rycaut

I get that. But my chances of being shot and killed by a cop are *higher* under a "tough on crime" Democrat, than under a MAGA Republican. My chances of being falsely imprisoned as a Black man are *higher* under a "tough on crime" Democrat, than under a MAGA republican.

The year that cops killed the most people in recorded US history, was under Biden. It was lower in Trump's first term, and it's lower now under his second.

This isn't praise for Trump. This is pointing out that "Tough on crime" Democrats are objectively more dangerous for Black US citizens trying not to get killed by cops, than MAGA Republicans.

I do understand that life is better for white people in California under "tough on crime" Democrats than under MAGA Republicans. But I'm not going to vote to increase my own chances of getting shot to make white folks' lives more convenient. I'd rather load balance the fascism so that it's not all focused on people that look like me. And there are millions of Black Californian voters like me.

My recommendation is that Californians choose a candidate that is more palatable to Black voters. Or we get a redux of the millions of Black men that refused to vote for Biden.

[mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io]

@Rycaut

You can switch the years and watch Biden set a high score for "US police killing people" in 2021.

Then he beat his high score in 2022.

Then he beat that high score in 2023.

Then he set the all time record in 2024.

And yes, this ramp up was a direct result of policies that Biden put in place, that Black civil rights leaders and criminal justice reformers opposed at the time, and told him that this would be the result. And he refused to listen. Again.

Then so many Black men said, "We will never vote for Biden again!" That he could not possibly win. He had to drop out. Then Harris tried to win those Black voters back, and came very close! But not close enough. Trump won.

Then the number of people killed by police came down under Trump in 2025. Because mayors of cities with a lot of Black people, finally did what civil rights leaders have been asking cities to do for decades.

Just a moment...

(mappingpoliceviolence.org)

[orionkidder@mas.to]

@mekkaokereke That's disgusting.

My god.

"We're traumatized by all of you noticing we racism-shot someone again."

I don't how a person's mind gets this warped. Racism is a pathology.