This is kinda juvenile, but you can't deny it's also fucking great because you know it gets to him.
The stupid shit gets him.
Conservatives are weird made them flip the fuck out.
It's because they are thin skinned milk sops who will cry incivility at the mereest of insults. I grew up round them and still live amongst them, the number of them who I've gotten to throw a fit by being a blasé ass is frankly amazing, I don't even have to try just speaking shitty Latin is enough to piss them off.
Trump is a diaper baby. It's ok to treat him like one.
Newsom did the math. He is the only high ranking neoliberal Democrat, who activly fights Trump. It is very obvious that fighting Trump is incredibly popular and also that all of the further left candidates are not going to get funding from billionaires. That puts Newsom into a very strong position to become the next US president, if there is a free and fair election.
all of the further left candidates are not going to get funding from billionaires.
That's why I want them to run, and not Newsom. If he wins, backed by billionare money, he's just going to keep perpetuating the same system, the same way that Biden and Obama did.
I think you're missing the news about JB Pritzker.
I fucking hope he does't run for president. He's just a younger Joe Biden. He's not a neoliberal at ALL.
If anything, he's just representing the CA vibe here. Points for that, but no more than this.
Repressing. He's merely doing the minimum California demands of him.
Seriously, he's still fucking hated for blatantly throwing trans people under the bus, handing out with alt-right grifters, and finally acting like the rich scumbag everyone knew he was but no one quite had proof yet.
Who will have a better chance in this climate?
AOC comes to mind. John Stewart, if he ever decided to run.
We need to stop picking people we think will win, and start picking actual leaders that are right for this country.
Otherwise we're just going to get Joe 2.0 pushing the same bullshit agenda that's crippled this country in the face of the aggressive fascists that now hold it.
Gavin Newsom's an establishment politician first and anything else second.
He's vetoed trans protections, sold out unions and appeared on a far right podcast to showcase his anti trans views.
For now he's an opponent of fascism, but his interests are not the interests of the American people. He'll gladly sell us out if it benefits his career.
Big tent comrade. Some of us fart in our sleep, but we either climb in this thing together or else we both sleep in our own separate cardboard boxes.
Yes, climb into the box with all the people willing to sell minority rights away to appeal to fascists. Like, "Hey you guys hate queer people right? Well, we actually will tolerate that over here! If you guys want to implement politics intended to drive trans kids to kill themselves, hey thats totally fine we would be willing to do that if you vote for us!"
This is the box youre asking trans people to climb into?
One side isn't supporting me and voted for some things that are harmful for me. The other side wants to put me in an extermination camp.
I can't decide these are the same
I have been screaming for years that Democrats should stand and fight back on the meme/social-media front!
The second a Democratic governor show some spine:
"Newsom isn't pure enough."
And this is exactly why we so fucking always lose. Fuck all y'all.
Democrats should stand and fight back on the meme/social-media front!
I mean, they have tried... but seem physically incapable of understanding how.
The last several candidates they've presented us have been utterly contemptable in their lack of personality, passion or character. Their "meme" front has been the most inoffensive, inhuman forms of propaganda imaginable, not even remotely witty or funny.
This is a large reason Dems lose so much. They are trying too hard to appeal to milquetoast liberals and use the most inclusive, bland language possible and it rubs people as corporate slop and disingenuous "please, I will do or say anything for a vote" pandering and people see through it.
One reason Trump is so popular among a certain class of people is that he's so bad at lying that many people think he's not trying to hide it at all, and perversely enough, this makes him more human and relatable than people like Harris who have zero distinguishing characteristics. People are angry, frustrated and they want narratives. They care a lot more about a storyline than they do about if candidate X has been consistent on policy Y. It's dumb and sad but we're here because Dems think they're too good to play this game.
Newsom is BARELY crossing this threshold and could go a lot further, and would need to if he has eyes on the Iron Throne, but it's a start.
Spot on! I'll have to reread this a time or three.
One of the many reasons that we lose is because we let the politicians who cosplay as "the left" take the votes from actual leftists. I'm glad the Democrats are fighting back on social media, but how about fighting back legislatively and politically when they have the chance?
One of the reasons that we lose, is because they seem unwilling to do that, and the voters have noticed.
Or... People just don't turn out to vote "real" leftists in. Election turnout submitted as exhibit A.
You mean the last election when there were two right-wing candidates on the ballot? Yes, you are correct, that leftists don't come out to vote for right-wingers. Of course, when there is a leftist on the ballot, leftists do show up, as evidenced above.
Yeah, memes and social media are why Kamala won... Oh wait...
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