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Save us the trouble and just don't show up if your going to throw.
If Newsom is the candidate, the race will have already been thrown.
That's how you got trump. If you think a miracle candidate is just going to pop up, I think that's wishful thinking; you walk the needle to where you want it to go.
No, that's not how I got Trump. That's how the Democratic establishment got us Trump. They got their choice of "miracle candidate" and ran their choice of campaign their way. They even got their choice of opponent thanks to Hillary's "pied piper" campaign to pump up Trump. They orchestrated the whole damn thing, so fuck you for blaming me. The only thing you got right is that it actually would take a fucking miracle for the establishment to pull their heads out of their asses and pick a real candidate.
Newsom cares about being President. That's his entire moral core. Just like Hillary, Biden, Obama, and Harris, being president is an ego trip and serves no end but self gratification. That's why we fell to fascism. If you think that staying on the same path that got us here will get us out, then it's you who got us Trump and, more importantly, you who will get us the next Trump
If you want me to stay quiet and take being the Democrats' sacrificial cow with dignity for the sake of "normalcy," I won't do it. Blue No Matter Who is so simple when it isn't your neck on the line, though.
No, I'm saying that writing is "fuck America" might as well be like writing in Micky mouse. Its performative bullshit that changes nothing.
Do what you want. But wanting change while thinking that writing a phrase on a ballot is going to change anything screams slacktivism and the yearning for internet "'atta-boys" with internet strangers.
You can make a better impact with your time, if your passionate about wanting something better, do something worthwhile.
Did you know a lot of people make comments on the internet and have outside lives? And, perhaps, even touch grass? I often feel like I don't do enough, and we're in so deep I'm often unsure what the answer to our country's problems are, but I do what I can in the real world all the same. I suppose I'm saying making assumptions about an anonymous posters' personal life is an odd choice.
So, sure, this was a low-effort comment. I'm frustrated with the state of America. I'm disillusioned with Vote Blue No Matter Who after a decade of it not working. It was uninspired venting that took fifteen seconds to write. A waste of time? Maybe. Welcome to the internet. People spend hours scrolling and stoking the dumpster fire. Social media, while it has its moments, as a whole is not a good place to do anything meaningful in the grand scheme of things, and yet here we all are. You're here too. Perhaps the moments that really matter in life, that help others, that are satisfying, that are sublime, are interspersed with many small pointless moments as we recharge our batteries.
I also find accusation of karma farming bizarre when my comment was ratioed by at least one other reply and also dogpiled. What attaboys have I gotten? I don't know what I was expecting out of this, but it sure wasn't an attaboy. Also not a boy, BTW.
Must be nice having a Democrat who hasn't thrown you under the bus :)
A Trump presidency and a Newsom presidency would be identical for me.