- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
You must log in or # to comment.
Whaaaaaaat? A politician behaving like a political animal? The shock! The scandal!
I believe the term is Blue MAGA.
And the worst part is the democratic party will champion this fucker because it’s fully bought and paid for.
The people who are upset with that term just enforce the reason why we have the term.
I mean, if they didn’t want people using the term, they should tried harder not to fit the description, yeah?
You’d think, but instead they ban you if you call them out on it. Like MAGA.
Everyone has their preferred echo chambers, I suppose.
This guy was once married to Kimberly Gilfoyle, who was Don Jr’s concubine for a few years, until fairly recently, so that tells me all I have to know about him, or her. He’s a Manchurian MAGA.
Wow I didn’t know this. This should be talked about more
She got exiled to Greece to be the ambassador, and shut her up. On one hand, she’s out of the inner circle, so it’s a huge step down, socially, but on the other hand, she’s an AMBASSADOR - la dee dah! - and not just and ambassador of some off-brand country, she’s the ambassador of Greece, which is…um…a country people have heard of. Beautiful, they say.
Anyway, she’s way over there.
Yea he’s a fascist. That’s why he platforms Nazi’s and Zionists on his podcast and magically lets them persuade him that they are right. It’s also why he vetoes everything that helps the working class. It’s also why he let PG&E get away with murdering 800 Californians and he allows them to raise our rates 6 times a year while they continue to make record shareholder profits. It’s also why why he is fighting the one time 5% billionaire tax proposed by the California legislature as hard as he can. We need an FDR Newsom is an Israeli asset and a closeted republican who’s Gen z handlers make funny tweets.
I saw him speak at Davos a while ago and I thought he was a big phony guy with very little acting skills but who is constantly acting. Another cult of personality instead of any real depth of thought.
Hopefully, we get AOC as the front runner. I am sick of the Democratic establishment.
Only the democratic establishment could lose to Trump TWICE!!!
Nah, MAGA won once in 2016, with Russian interference, but they only prevailed in 2024 because they openly cheated, with the help of Musk and Putin, and the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries covered for them.
Democrats lost in 2016 and 2024. They would have lost in 2020 if it weren’t for covid.
They openly stole it in 2024, and they told us they were doing it the entire time they were doing it. They didn’t even try to hide it. MAGAs and Dems chose to ignore it “for the good of the country,” or some such happy horseshit, and here we fucking are.
and the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries covered for them.
Not even funny these fucking AIPAC shill clowns, fuck them both.
But give them a third chance. They’re going to win this time
Either AOC or John Stewart needs to step the fuck up and save our nation.
Legitimate question, you are asked to vote for either Gavin Newsom or Donald Trump. Who do you vote for or do you abstain?
I’ve said it before many times on here… I will never vote for Newsom. So I will vote third party or not at all for POTUS. I will vote for the rest of the voting options though.
If you cannot choose between Newsom and Trump, you aren’t mentally or emotionally mature enough to vote.
Choosing between Newsom and Trump is like choosing between buying a house outright that is currently on fire vs. buying a house at a 200% interest rate that will be set on fire between 3-5 years from now.
No, it isn’t.
One is a Nazi currently burning down all of our Constitutional rights and the other is a guy you don’t agree with on some shit.
I’m dead serious: If you can’t figure out Trump is a Nazi threat, then yeah, you should probably lose the right to vote…or be in public.
Well lucky for you I’m not voting for either of them, so I guess you’re getting exactly what you want
Your right to vote in the United States.
You can vote for:
A Democrat, A Republican, A third-party candidate, An independent candidate, Or you can choose not to vote at all.
You are free to vote for any candidate listed on the ballot.
Abstain
What if we all wrote in Luigi Mangione?
Then you let Trump win and you might as well just say goodbye to every human right you have.
I find it hard to believe any of you are adults.
The reason why Gavin is so popular among Californians is because he’s “socially liberal, fiscally conservative.”
There are countless liberal fucks in Cali that just want to make sure whoever is in office doesn’t raise their taxes. They’re the ones who profit off of everything being so expensive, not being able to own anything, etc etc.
His supporters are the same people who voted against Bernie Sanders, twice.
If you see someone supporting him online, know you’re dealing with a scammer or a moron.
As compared to what? Is he worse than Trump? I sincerely fucking doubt it.
That’s a ridiculously low bar, but it’s also an important distinction.
Do I want Gavin Newsom to be the Democrat nominee for 2028? Hell no! He’s revealed himself to be a shallow political opportunist and an ideological chameleon. And I think that party can do better.
But regardless, would he be an improvement over Trump? Hell yes!
Another question is: is he - a supposedly populist liberal from California - even electable on a national stage? I don’t think so. But then, we live in very ‘interesting’ times. So who knows.
The third question is: will we have a fair enough election in 2028 (or an election at all)? That remains to be seen.
See this I feel. These articles annoy me because it feels like the dem bad thing but yeah if your talking canidate heck I would love waltz. him being put on as vice president was the main thing that jazzed me a bit with harris. Honestly I did not want my own govenor to run because our state has been such a trump show in the past and its nice being on track for awhile but man we need something decent in the role. I really don’t know enough about newsom to say for sure but he certiainly does not have much going for him outside of using social media to combat trump which is good idea overall. Still unlike republicans I am going to be voting based on someone who I think can actually do a good job in the role rather than score some points.
These do annoy me. Of course Newsom is not the best candidate but they are distracting everyone from how much better that would be than the current shitshow
And I have to ask y’all, are we really going to an insists on an ideal candidate regardless whether they are electable?
I have no idea whether Newsom is but he has name recognition, presidential presence, and a successful “populist” strategy. He has successfully positioned himself as a leading foil of Trump. All that stuff that seem necessary for getting elected even if they have no part in whether they would do well for their constituents. …. And they’re building a train!
I do always wonder if this is just republicans trying to astroturf “both sides the same”.
I think there’s this assumption that the more centrist a dem is, the more electable they are and that may have been true decades ago. Now though? With how polarized the electorate is, people either vote for their party’s candidate or the couch. Trump got roughly the same number of votes in 2024 (77M) as 2020( 74M) maybe he changed some minds; but Harris got 7M fewer votes than biden (81->74). People stayed home. “Not trump” wasn’t enough to get excited about for enough folks, and that’s about all Newsom has to offer
I genuinely believe Bernie is more electable than Newsom. We should give voters some credit
I mean when it comes to primaries I do not vote on electability. I think that is how we get the democrats we have now. Come general though im not going to be supporting the republican by voting for them or not voting. Bernie was the supposed unelectable canidate and I voted for him but come the general I voted for clinton.
Put it this way, us overseas would rather see Newsom in charge of it than Trump.
That’s way better for us.
Anyone would be an improvement over Trump. Even Vance, probably. I’d gladly see Newsom win. But even more than that, I’d like to see Bernie, Warren or AOC win.
Bernie + (anyone else, but preferably AOC) would have won against Trump three (3) times.
Me too, but anyone who doesn’t threaten the sovereignty of other countries and respects some form of order is good for us.
Edit: Vance would last a month and no, if he could get full influence he might be as bad or worse than Trump.
Well, that would certainly be an interesting new direction to try after 250 years of the opposite.
Yeah that point is hard to argue ay, even with the better leaders.
Democrats have been playing the “well they suck, but at least they’re not Trump!” game for a decade and gotten Trump two out of three times. Maybe we should aim higher.
100% with you, I don’t love Newsom. Personally I’d be interested in an AOC run but that’s maybe a bit dreamer of me.
The best pushback for this message is to post the entire interview between Newsom and Ben Shapiro and then tell me again who cares about people.
So more of that lesser evil bullshit that’s given us trump and helped shift the entire DNC to the right?
Settling for any centrist with a pulse is how we got Trump.
And Bush Jr 2nd term. Possibly first term
As compared to some of the other candidates that might have run if the Democratic Primary were an actual primary and not a coronation.
The last time Democrats ran an actual primary ws 2008, when a young, generational candidate beat out the (kinda boring) establishment choice. Democrats learned their lesson to never let something encouraging like that happen again!
Gavin’s gonna win the Primary, as his right as the Next One Up, and we’re all gonna vote for him, because as awful as he is, he is objectively better than whoever the MAGA party will run.
And this is the exact attitude why nothing will ever change in this country. You can’t keep voting in people hellbent on maintaining the hegemony capital has over everyone and expect anything to get better for you.
In the history of Democratic party, there was exactly one time where the candidate that the DNC chose, actually lost a popular vote. Exactly one.
It was in 2008, when a young, generational candidate actually lost the popular vote by 1% to the (kinda boring) establishment choice, but was chosen anyway.
It’s nice to have this simplistic worldview, when “they” control everything anyway so you don’t have to do anything and just complain when “they” don’t do what you want. It’s harder to confront the reality when “they” actually consist of all the people around you, and the only reason you don’t get what you want is because you don’t do shit.Nice try, but the popular vote doesn’t mean anything in primaries, because the elections are held over a period of time and many candidates drop out mid-way through, so we will never know how many Joe Biden or John Edwards voters would have voted for Obama over Clinton. Clinton did not win a majority of votes, after all.
Obama won a majority of pledged delegates, even before taking the undemocratic Super Delegates into account, and it’s delegates that count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
Democrats don’t need to mess with the counting of votes to “fix” primaries. They do it the old fashioned way, by manipulating the primary calendar to make certain candidates inevitable.
Primaries need to be on one fucking day across the nation.
Make it ranked choice or some other system that works properly with more than 2 candidates while we’re at it.
Popular vote reflects how people who actually vote think. Candidates aren’t appearing out of thin air, they’re nominated as the result of political campaigns.
You can’t shift the blame for candidates to ambiguous “them” if you didn’t get your ass to try to affect it in any way. The delegates represent pretty nicely the opinion of people who actually vote in Primaries, with almost perfect track record. They don’t represent your opinion because you don’t vote therefore don’t have an opinion. So you don’t get to complain about what party that you’re not in is doing. Want it to change? Use the ways to change it. Those ways aren’t hidden from you, aren’t secret, aren’t gatekeeped by a shadow cabal, you just need to do politics about it. People who get their candidates elected do that.
You never learn.
If you want to know what the flat comparison should be, it’s AOC. She is, in reality, a centrist.
Now go again with the comparison.
I’d def take AOC over probably anyone else tbh. I don’t like Newsom but I do enjoy the way he trolls Trump all the time.
They’re not the only options, stop framing it that way. That’s how the shitty billionaires keep winning, by forcing that narrative
Okay? So what just don’t vote? Ignore the system? Become a politician myself and run for president? Seriously, what are my many options you speak of?
Primaries haven’t happened yet. He hasn’t even officially announced.
Your options are: to stop talking like it’s going to be PEDOnald/Couchfucker vs Newsom.
This isn’t that conplicated. Holy shit.
I don’t see how I’ve talked like that but okay.
As compared to what? Is he worse than Trump? I sincerely fucking doubt it.
This. Right here. Is you creating a false dichotomy, as if this comparison is all that matters. It’s really very obvious, I’m not sure why this is so hard to understand
Bro I could say a dead raccoon is not worse than Trump. Does that also seem to paint the picture that the only options from here on are a dead raccoon and Trump? Buddy get a grip.
When you’re the one who, unbidden, decided to make the comparison when someone says this other unrelated person is bad, then yes. You are actively restricting the narrative that these are the only choices.
No, I disagree.
Trump is creating a chaotic shitstorm, but it’s almost entirely performance and theater and mindless destruction, all focused around him and his personality.
If you get someone in there with the same agendas and intentions, but who is cunning enough to mask it under populism and pretending to care about people while signing into law bills that will allow capital to have unrestricted access to our lives, allow them to take part in our politics even more and in the open, packing the courts with corporate aligned-judges… well Liberal america will be HAPPY with this, they just don’t want to see all the violence in the street, they want stability and the image of peace, which will let someone like Newsom soak up all the adoration for “making America normal again” while signing away all of our futures in a much less openly opposable way.
Trump caused the wound, but someone like Newsom will rub the sewage into it.
he will repeal 20% of Trump’s orders and people will celebrate it. He will restore a fraction of what Trump has undone and people will celebrate his name and see him as a hero just because we’ve become accustomed to total chaos. It almost looks carefully planned. Hmmn.
There’s an argument that most of the stuff done in trumps name would be “ok” if he did it legally and that’s what people wanted. It’s the abuse of authority, the personal enrichment, violating the constitution, holding people above the law, enforcing personal feelings, violating checks and balances that are the critical issues.
I wouldn’t want to live in such a society but it would at least be “legitimate”
Exactly. I don’t think anyone is putting him on a pedestal, he’s just better than a lot of alternatives. I’m not saying that’s a reason to vote for him, but he’s miles better than literally in the current administration.
Newsom says he’s eager to pitch a big tent for the Democratic Party, declaring that he welcomes the likes of former US senator Joe Manchin as well as New York’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani in the fold. “I want it to be the Manchin to Mamdani party,” Newsom said in November.
Newsom can fuck right the hell off. Manchin represents everything that is wrong with the Democratic party and so, apparently, does Newsom.
declaring that he welcomes the likes of former US senator Joe Manchin
Turn our backs and give them extra knives, huh gav?
You mean the serial adulterer who can’t read and whose entire life has been sponsored by a Getty oil heir isn’t a good candidate for president of the United States? Shocked.
I thought his inability to read was because of ADHD. We back to hatin on disabilities again?
I mean, in addition to what everyone else said, disabilities can in fact disqualify you from being a good president.
If someone is non-verbally autistic with an ID diagnosis, it’s not ableist to say they aren’t a good candidate to be president.
Obviously this is a spectrum, and ADHD shouldn’t be, on its face, disqualifying. But if it’s so bad you’re literally illiterate, then it’s no ableist to say that makes you a bad candidate to be president.
Eh… Context is important. I think if he had overcome his disability and managed to power through it to achieve a decent education that would actually be a plus.
Instead he has a bachelor’s from an expensive private school where he “studied” abroad. I think it’s just indicative of his history of being able to rely on connections and money to achieve his position in life. And it makes me doubt that he is educated enough or willing to work hard enough to learn all the things someone should know to be president of the United States.
As someone who has a neurodevelopmental disorder, my problem isn’t that he has a learning disability. It’s that he’s a rich fuck boy with a learning disability, which is a powerful combo. I know if I had a friend who just gifted me multi-million dollar businesses that allowed me to do whatever I wanted…I would be an idiotic terror.
I tutor, and I’ve ran into lots of rich boys with disabilities who learn that they can get their parents to pay for their homework to be done for them (or the mom does it herself…). Fired a client because he had too much of a “reading disability” to do the required reading for the paper we were writing - previous tutors would write his papers for him!
Yep. I have a position at a teaching hospital where we teach residents from all over the country. The ones from pay to play private schools are always subpar both in their education and especially in people skills. Most of them drop, or pivot to administration positions where they don’t have to associate with everyday people.
Okay but why drag in his ability to read at all ? Seems like there are valid enough reasons to hate the guy. No need to pitch so low.
I think it’s pertinent to the conversation, the leader of the country should be well read. We can currently see what happens when they are not.
ADHD has no impact on reading ability.
If he has reading problems, it’s due to something else.
Not directly but it can accompany dislexia making learning traditionally much harder. Ive known and grew up with a few.
What, this guy? Surely not.
gavin isn’t the greatest but he was just following state law
https://bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3merscb5bhs2i
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com rubs temples
As I’ve spent the better part of the day explaining why I don’t think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to “defend” this, but…
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
You’re saying that elected officials in the USA are subject to laws?
deleted by creator
I got bad news for you… Also the person dnc/dems elected to give the state of the union rebuttal did nothing but say we should go back to Reagan times so really shows how much the dems are gonna fight
Best way I’ve heard to describe him is, “at least he’s lawful evil”
Such is the standards of our time, where Law, even an Evil variety, is better than the purely malicious Chaos we have. Mostly because the law is running on the fading fumes of Neutral.
Given a few decades of Newsom, we would have Ronald Reagan Deluxe.
Watching how fast he threw the trans community under the bus told me everything I needed to know about him. He has the moral compass of a boiled piece of spaghetti… fuck this corpo dem.
Fuck newsom
I hate to admit this, but I used to listen to the Adam Corolla podcast years ago, and he had Newsom on as a guest when he was lieutenant governor of California. At the time, he claimed that the biggest issue facing Californians was being unbanked. Like payday loan companies were the worst threat.
Newsom was Lt. Governor of CA from 2011-2019. I am not Californian, and I don’t know what they’re dealing with outside of the seemingly-constant wildfires, and those seem pretty fucking bad, and I’m sure there are some other pretty terrible things Californians have to deal with, too.
That said, payday loan companies deserve to get spit-roasted by the Devil and the Devil’s angriest pet donkey in the deepest bowels of Hell.
As a Californian, the state is absolutely huge and I have never been affected by any of the wildfires and frankly I doubt more than 1% of the population has even been affected directly by the fires. It’s a completely overblown issue. Does it suck? Yes. Does the media make it seem the entire state is on fire 24/7? Yeah. Don’t believe the media.
The real issues Californians face are:
- Housing/Zoning/NIMBYs
- Public transportation
- ISP services(or lack thereof)
- Huge population(traffic, cars, etc), of course some areas are worse than others
We do have pretty cheap groceries as long as you don’t shop at Target or Pavilions. Costco, WinCo, Aldi’s, etc. all have great pricing compared to other posts I see from around the country. Same goes for gas. Costco is around $3.50-$4.00 a gallon(for 87) for the past couple years. But the Chevron or Shell down the street is $4.50-$5 a gallon.
Taxes are also overblown. Everyone looks at our marginal rates and go “so high!” but never calculate what their effective rate is, which is usually much lower.
And then people love to bring up “the homeless” like there’s a camp on every street corner. Like yeah, maybe in LA. But for my city I have only seen the occasional pan handler on the freeway off ramps, which I doubt are even homeless since I’ve seen at least one leave their corner and go to their SUV in the nearby parking lot and drive away at the end of the day, like it’s a job for them.
We have our issues, the state is far from perfect, but I’d rather be here in Cali than any other state at this point.
Housing/Zoning/NIMBYs
You’d love Houston then.
A few years back the Boston globe did an expose on panhandlers and yeah, there are scammers and you need to recognize them but most people in need are truly people in need.
My take on it was that aggressive panhandlers in prime locations (major tourist spots, intersections with chronic backups) are most likely scammers. People sitting quietly looking defeated are in need. The hard part is deciding whether/how to help all those in between, but it’s good to remember that most people who look homeless are homeless
Then there’s that weird guy who approached to talk about his knife, probably to try to steal my dog while technically not threatening - I so regret not calling police
Oh for sure, I try to keep cash on me for the ones I know truly are homeless. Sometimes I need to do late night grocery runs and the dude hanging out in front of a grocery store at 10pm isn’t a scammer. If I don’t have cash I usually offer to buy something, usually grocery stores have those pre-made sandwiches.
