Obligatory fuck Newsom, but also a signed constitution would've probably been a better statement.
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Well, Trump also sold Bibles.
The EU should play his own game and funnel foreign campaign money for none-GOP people through these stores.
Of course we should have done this years ago since at this point we won't have fair elections, but for a brief moment, I was satisfied with my thought.
As long as it’s not Gavin, he really sucks in other ways.
Gosh I love that even many years out we can start shitting on everyone popular or that has a chance of winning because they aren't trans friendly enough.
Gonna be fantastic watching this waiting for Trump's 3rd term.
Bro, we haven’t even started the primaries, isn’t this the exact time to ask for better? The anti-trans thing is only part of it. He’s also a capitalist shit heel who rubber stamps PG&E’s agenda with 0 push back. Is extremely anti-homeless. Doesn’t do the bare fucking minimum to push back against police brutality in LA. But yeah I should just forgive that before the primaries even start because his team did something witty on twitter.
It absolutely is. I'm a big proponent of getting in line to oppose Republicans when it's election time, but the second the election is over until the second the primaries are over is the time to talk shit, find options, get behind folks who align with your beliefs, and make your voice heard. Because right now we're setting who gets a seat at the table. We're setting what kind of promises will be made.
I'm not a fan of newsome because he's a wolf in sheeps clothing.
He's big oil all the way
The EU needs to concentrate on keeping its own fascists under control.
I am getting very worried about the UK and Germany. It’s looking more and more like they will be in Russia’s pocket soon enough.
The uk is as cooked as the us. Those Id laws....
Somehow, I don’t think the solution to this problem is more corruption
I mean at this point I'd try anything to not recreate Germany circa late 1930's...
I really doubt the people in concentration camps would have agreed with "ya know what? Maybe fighting corruption with corruption isn't something worth trying..."
Dems don't getit. we don't want someone who acts like Trump, we want someone who is effective in getting what they want passed like Trump.
Supreme Court members impeached starting with alito.
Healthcare for all.
Crash the housing market by imposing taxes on anything beyond a second home
Speak for yourself. I've been saying Dems should be mocking his stupid speech patterns and hyperbolic nonsense since 2016. He is ripe to be mocked, and our greatest failing has been treating his stupidity and absurdity as valid stances worthy of being debated in earnest.
By taking a high road against him we've basically destroyed ourselves and legitimized his positions via the gray fallacy.
Coulda won the election by just going around making fun of him for being dumb enough to think injecting bleach was a solution to COVID.
A bad leader today is better than a good leader tomorrow. Dems have had 10 years to figure out an effective strategy and developed leaders to compete against Trump, they've failed. Newsom isn't a good choice but he's the only one whose shown any effective strategy against Trump. Wtf are we supposed to do? Keep waiting while Republicans dismantle the fuel of law, democracy and the entire framework the country function on?
You could always keep doing nothing and hope things change. A lot of people chose this option. It didn’t work this time but who knows….
If we get an election in 2028 and Gavin is the stinker propped up against whatever Trump 2.0 is going to be, we can try not voting again and see if things change.
Newsom isn't a good choice but he's the only one whose shown any effective strategy against Trump.
Effective how? Has Gavin kept a single innocent person out of jail, funded a single defunded program, protected a single city from Guard occupation?
What has Gavin created except ChatGPT imitations of Trump tweets and AI image slop? What has Gavin done except promote himself?
Gavin's not effective opposition. He just paid TikTok enough money to promote his meme shit that he looks viral. And his bullshit is going to last just about as long as "Kamala is brat" or Walz calling people "weird" did.
Mamdani has shown us an effective strategy, too. Stand for the people. Actually run on the fucking left. Don't just talk shit about Trump - actually oppose his policies. And convince working class Americans you really do stand with them, so they don't turn to right wing populist scumbags out of sheer desperation to be heard.
But that's not going to happen. Because the dirty Democrat secret is that the DNC leadership agrees with most of Trump's positions. They just want to implement them more politely.
As a non American, I’m so weirded out by people hyping Newsom’s* lame trolling as the second coming of Christ.
It’s a real dumb country to dominate the world, and despite all the suffering it will involve, I’m glad it’s finally collapsing. All the best to you non-insane people living there though, I’m rooting for you (but not betting on you, yet).
*His Gen Z social media staff
Mockery is an important tool against fascists and other authoritarians. It was even used effectively against Hitler. Their power is entirely projection and something needs to break the glass.
It needs someone who doesn't hate trans people, doesn't platform fascists, and doesn't rip up homeless encampments with his bare hands. Stop acting like this guy is anything less than the scum of the earth, we can do so goddamn much better and dems are completely fucked if they pick him as candidate. Stop making him look like a valid choice
REAL MERCH for TRUE CONSUMERS. I cannot believe that GAVIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
All hail God Emperor Gavin!
Leave it to Lemmy to hate everything and everyone while doing jackshit themselves.
Edit: I take it back, you do jack shit, you downvote people who call you out on it. Bunch of complainers. Go be the change you want to see in the world or shut up. Now’s the time for it.
Very well put! Thank you. More people need to understand how the concept of nuance works and how to apply it to the reality they live in.
They voted (and didn’t vote) based entirely on their wishful thinking of a perfect world in which everything they hate is solved by one person.
And they still didn’t learn from it.
Guys keep on shitting on Gavin. I didn't think we have enough screeching at each other for mid terms or even the next president.
We need to make sure everyone passes our purity test. Better trump than a moderate Democrat!
Purity tests will be the end of Democracy.
While citizens skip voting, vote third party, and prop up weak candidates the authoritarian in chief will spend his final days on a throne Robert Baratheon style. Hopefully he’s gored by a pig sooner rather than later.
I mean, as long as he doesn't openly support genocide or rape kids, he is better then the last two candidates. The purity test bar is pretty low imo, it's kind of really easy to pass (easier for one party though).
This kind of idiocy is why we have a literal genocide enabling rapist and (probable) pedophile in the whitehouse riding roughshod over the constitution while Congress and the Supreme Court packed full of his shitbird lackeys cheer him on from the sidelines.
Do you love him? Is he your favorite choice for 2028? It's he really the best we could find?
That'll teach the fascists! - Libs everywhere
Ridiculing them is an effective tool yes, just not the only thing that needs to happen
that'll show him!
Newsom is a neoliberal snake that is doing a “hey fellow kids” approach to Trump. Mocking Trump by imitating him is just getting him made fun of in right wing spaces. I doubt it will do much besides get some centrist billionaire apologizing Dems a micro dopamine hit on social media. I say all this, but if he is the 2028 nominee, then so be it and I will vote for him because purity tests are not helping anyone.
You guys complain that democrats don’t step up to trump, the moment one does, you tear him down. No wonder the American left is fucked, you guys are so toxic now that nobody is good enough to be an ally. There’s no such thing as a step forward anymore. You guys would rather have trump and play the victim. You’re all fucked and you deserve it
He isn't going to address anything that actually draws people to Trump. America needs radical change, which Newsom is not advocating for. Newsome is popular with rich donors to the DNC. He is NOT popular with people across the country. He's going to run the same campaign Clinton, Biden, and Harris all ran, will get absolutely pummeled, and then all of you will go right back to blaming leftists.
I don’t necessarily disagree with your final point. As an American, I’m of the opinion that we are currently getting exactly what we asked for, damning as that fact might be about the American people. Regardless, though, the reason we complain about people like Newsom is because he is cut from the very same neoliberal (read: conservative anywhere other than the US) cloth that ratcheted us to this position in the first place. There’s a nonzero risk that with him as the rising star, he could be yet another uninspiring Democratic candidate who fails to galvanize the American people into actually showing up for once in our fucking lives, and I worry that even if we somehow pull ourselves out of this spiral, we may end up back here again in a decade or two
Make no mistake, I understand necessity perfectly well, and, presidentially, I would happily cling to Newsom like a drowning man at the moment if I had the chance, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be criticized as a figurehead of the left, because he’s not really representative of the left, nor is he necessarily even on the left in the first place. Still, there’s really no time to purity test right now, and purity testing something like this is, to me, absurd. I’d happily take a “turncoat” Republican (so long as it’s one of the less morally bankrupt of the lot, at least) as an ally in this fight, so why the hell not Newsom?
I get this. I have a senator who is fine enough but she is a war vet and always votes for security over liberty. IE patriot act and its extensions and such. I still vote for her in the general but am more than ready to vote against her in a primary. Unfortunately she often runs unopposed likely due to her popularity seeming to be unassailable.
As a leftist I'm getting so sick of listening to leftists tear down any opposition to trump because it's not some mythical unicorn candidate. It's crabs in a bucket. It really is.
I am glad he is doing the actual sort of thing democrats should have been doing for the couple decades and realizing the political moment and utilizing political power to try and redistrict. But I'm not going to fawn over a different flavor of fascist because of his twitter clap backs and merch store.
Definitely don’t turn him into a personality or figure to love, politics needs to stop being that way. But he’s a step away from trump so take what you can get right now.
Im Canadian so we held our nose and voted for a guy we didn’t want but it was that or the fascist. We can at least hold the neoliberal’s feet to the fire, but the fascist doesn’t give a fuck