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Newsom would be absolutely horrible for our country
It's been less than a year since he started his podcast with Charlie Kirk and fawned over hi, then had Steve Bannon a few weeks later and treated him the same.
Newsom isn't on our side, he's just saying what his team of PR people tell him to say. There's a very good chance if he loses the primary he pulls a Cuomo/RFK Jr.
Yeah...I used to like him but have started really hating him in the last decade. The only reason he looks good right now is because everyone else is just that bad.
The only reason he looks good right now is because everyone else is just that bad.
Everyone else the billionaire owned media wants you to see.
There's some good things happening all over, lots of people at the state level putting in work and gaining ground back.
But if CNN talked about them, Newsom would look like an angry bully like when he joined up with Charlie Kirk to shit on anyone who's lgbt
God i hope there's more people to vote for than this guy
Don't worry! I heard Kamala might run too!
If I hadn't already seen articles on this, I'd take it as a joke.
This timeline is difficult to believe sometimes.
Jeez I thought they were joking. The Dem party can't be that dense. There's no way.
I would love for a fairytale ending where AOC takes it in a landslide but I think anyone pretending a dark skinned minority woman can win in this climate might just be brain dead.
I me a if magically she wins the primaries by a landslide great, but she won't, and worse yet, unlike Mamdani who is fighting uphill both ways, she's not nearly as sharp on her feet and she can't promise as much as he has because without a senate majority you just can't make that much change in the USA.
More than that, she would have to work with the other democrats who obviously are center right, so pushing through progressive policies would be extremely difficult.
You also have to remmebr that the billionaires that control ad spend wouldn't be spending very much on her, and let me put it this way, Lemmy is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the reach the platforms they own have.
These are the realities I feel many hyper online leftists don't want to acknowledge.
Given the realities, Newsom is the most solid choice to put out the immediate fire that I've seen floated so far.
Anyone that cares about her skin tone is already voting for R anyways.
I'd like to think that, but the fact he got similar votes this past election to the previous one and she got less than Biden did (Hillary got less than Biden did too while they both ran essentially the same campaigns) tells a different story.
Gimme a fucking break, he's already been running for years. Of course he's running. Our duty is to smack that shit down ASAP.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any good contenders.
The Illinois governor, Pritzker is a fantastic alternative.
Of course the best choice for a nationality known candidate would be AOC, but she also had the GOP attack dogs on her for close to a decade.
Pritzker should just stay governing Illinois.
He's doing a decent job.
He should stay where he is needed.
I hope he doesn't. He'd be more of the same, pre-tRump. We don't need more of the same; we need very successful new. And very left, non-maggot new.
Sit down. We're tired of capitalists
Can you guys who don't like the idea elaborate?
I've seen Newsome as generally a good leader. He did fuch up a few times with treating the homeless. However, here is why I would vote for the guy:
1)Better than a rotten sack of potatoes. 2)Does talk and move like a real person. 3)Has generally improved California... And here's the thing Republicans might like, there are still poor people in California and they're mostly brown! Don't you guys want that? 4)He helped the California economy grow during a tough time and did not bankrupt a casino in Las Vegas!
That said I would vote AOC at the drop of a hat because she's a woman and I want a first woman president to happen. Additionally, she's smart and has been on the side of the people. As an example she has not shot any of her dogs. Bernie, who I would also love as president, even now, supports her. AOC is a name all are familiar with. But perhaps we need to compromise so we can get the lunatics out...how about another sane white guy? I know a couple of white people in my community, I'm sure many of us know a white guy or two. Whoever it is, we need to figure it out soon so that we all vote for just that one gu....oh right, we don't have a say in the presidential election. I forgot that its actually a bunch of randoes who vote for us...we're totally unsmart regarding this way of electing.
Honey! You want pizza or pad Thai? Tell these 50 rando people what you want and they will certainly get you what you want after they vote for it. Don't worry, they're on your side! In the history of us being married they've chosen almost always exactly as most of us would have chosen our beans! So they're perfect! Here are your beans.
Key issues:
These mean I will prefer another candidate in the primaries
Yeah I'm gonna need a higher bar than not potatoes. I don't know how many times I can be expected to vote for "barely not a republican" consecutively but we've definitely passed that point. Clearly voting for the candidate that's a Democrat and slightly better than potatoes hadn't worked... like at all. I'm so tired of "Vote Blue No Matter Who (unless the blue candidate is to the left of Schumer and co. then they're basically Hamas)"
I have the opposite problem. But I won't state it. I don't want to give ideas to the you know who people.
Men and their dick insecurities are a big problem in politics. We need more women.
Men had their chance. Look at what they have done.
We need women who prioritize taking care of others over their own ego. Can't say I know of very many male politicians who are like that. But a lot of women are.
AOC. She's what we need. She's not bought. She's not corrupt. She's never raped anyone.
Let's vote for the best option. She's it.
Japan just elected their first woman president and member of a rock band...the drummer of all choices. I don't understand how but she's supposedly a conservative. But regardless, she is a woman. I hope she does good by her people and gives us an example to follow. I used to think AOC was a self centered person because she used to be a cheerleader in highschool. But boy was I wrong. That gir is a firecracker as they say. If she's on the ballot, I'm voting AOC.
I saw online she is a nationalist and right winger. So. We will see I guess. Hopefully she gets their paedophile problem addressed.
I don't understand how but she's supposedly a conservative.
Far right Trump lover who wants a return to traditional values. You know which tradition she's talking about, and it's not a Japanese tradition.
Also, prime minister not president, and not elected.
Oh that's right! Not elected. OK that must really suck. So who elects the PM in jaypan if its not the people? A Parliament? Do the people have a choice somewhere at the bottom of the scheme at all? You know like us and our wonderful electoral college that gave us the guy who keeps on giving!... Err...taking, our rights away.
The biggest party in the parliament, or a coalition, pick the prime minister. I'm pretty sure this one was from a coalition, and she was the leader of her party, and her party was the bigger of the coalition. Members of parliament do get elected into it by the people, who vote for a person and/or for a list. They didn't pick her to be leader of the party, but they voted for the people in the party that she recently became leader of.
That said I would vote AOC at the drop of a hat because she's a woman and I want a first woman president to happen.
Stop. Just fucking stop. We should absolutely have had women be President by now and that is a valid desire. But it is not a good basis on it's own to decide your vote. Be more discerning.
Additionally, she's smart and has been on the side of the people.
These are good bases for deciding your vote. Policy, ethics, character, competence, intelligence, etc. These are reasons to vote for AOC. She is a good choice in all those regards. These should be your first reasons, not her vagina.
As an example she has not shot any of her dogs.
Again, stop. AOC is a good choice on her own merit, not just in juxtaposition to the craziest crazies of the right. If you set the bar at being "Not Trump" or "Not Kristi Noem" or not whoever, that's where people get the idea that your candidate has nothing else to offer.
Assuming we get another election, if it ends up coming down to Newsom v Trump, or Vance, or whatever GOP goon builds enough of a following after Trump kicks it, he'll almost certainly have my vote because the alternative is insanity. But Newsom is a classic neo-liberal pro-capitalist, anti-homeless opportunist. He only looks good next to Trump. On his own, he's a greasy sleezeball classic politician. If we want real change, we need a true progressive.
Please. Please don't. We don't need any help from you, Neo-liberals. Give the Progressives some room.
I'm seeing a lot of propaganda for him
Remember. The democratic party is corrupt.
We not only are fighting fascist maga here. We are fighting the whole system that has allowed fascism to rise.
80% of the democratic party is corrupt and they need voted out. I don't care how good looking they are. I don't care how entertaining they are. I don't care if they troll Trump or not.
Idgaf about posturing.
What I care about is if they are bought.
And newsome is bought.
Israel and big corp owns him. He does not work for the people. He works to enrich his own wealth.
The only people who can fix this country are people like AOC and Bernie. And a few other Dems who don't take corporate pac money.
Vote wisely.
Otherwise things will continue to get worse. We need big changes. Not someone willing to placate the people just barely enough so they stop demanding change.
Otherwise in 10 years we will be in even worse off than now.
Keep your eyes on the goal. Don't be swayed by clever messages. Or good looking men pretending to be super heros.
Look at the facts. Look at who pays him.
He does not work for the people.
What a cowardly sack of shit he is...
No. No no no. No.
And then you get the dems doing the bidding of the nazis instead. Overton window continues to shift. Fuck him. He’d rather have a dead child than a trans child
He is definitely willing to toss trans people under the bus. Ill be actively working for another candidate in the primary as a result
Why are people still acting like there will be an election?