Democratic voters to Newsom: Fuck off.
Democrat voters if he wins the primary: most important election of our lifetime, we need to elect him so the other guy that’s exactly like him doesn’t get elected
I deeply hope it won’t happen, but if it’s him or the Nazis, then…
If he’s the candidate, I’m sitting the election out. Look, my community is under an attempted genocide right now. And as we’ve seen from the Starmer government in the UK, a nominally liberal government can be just as bad for trans rights as any Republican government. When Newsom says “be more culturally normal,” that is a dogwhistle for “take away the human rights of trans people.”
If the party isn’t willing to fight for my civil rights, sorry, I don’t owe you shit. You chose to do nothing after they first came for me, so I will laugh when they come for you.
This mentality was super effective in 2024 at stopping the worst president of our lives from gaining power.
Again, I don’t care. You vote to throw me and my people on the pyre, you can all go to Hell as far as I’m concerned. We can all burn together.
Yep, this is how we keep shifting right. I don’t care how much it smells, when it comes down to the actual election, hold your nose and vote to shift left.
Honestly, at this point I don’t blame you. If this is the dogsh*t the Dems consider a reasonable compromise then the Union has fallen.
Can I interest you in voting third party? Some third party candidates are worth your consideration.
Rofl!
If its him or the Nazi, the Nazis have won.
You aren’t going to like who is currently in power.
Telling you lack a highschool reading comprehension without telling me you lack a highschool reading comprehension.
perfect way to put it
Surprise they’re all Nazis.
WE ALREADY HAVE NAZIS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT. HAVING NAZI-LITE WITH NEWSOM SHALL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
Newsom effectively wants the Dems to be less progressive. From my perspective, the Dems continue to lose because they continue to shaft their progressive constituents, of which there are many.
Things have shifted so far to the right in the US that mainline Dems would be considered conservative in many other countries of the world. The US does not have a left party, progressive or otherwise. If you accept this, then it’s easy to suggest Newsom is just one other centrist masquerading as a leftist. His claims here support that view.
There are many, many other reasons not to like Newsom, but ultimately he is a symptom of a much deeper problem.
Yeah but you can’t start shifting things left again unless you get elected. We like to think it’s just reality that shifted right, not the voters, but maybe they are.
Each side has mostly dedicated voters who will always vote for them, and a relatively small population who can go either way. They’re the ones who decide the election: who are they?
That’s rich coming from a dude who wants to see corporations control our identities, we use less resources but AI data centers and the Epstein class can leave the faucet running all while claiming he cares about the middle class.
Shit he might just win…
Who decides what’s normal, Newsom? FUCK YOU
I think this is a critical point. Broadcast TV and Radio used to create a common shared cultural identity. But now a lot of the population has hyper personalized algorithms driving what content they consume, and there’s an overwhelming amount of content out there. At least once a week I hear someone mention a new “must watch” TV show or podcast I’ve never heard of and don’t have time for… So yeah, who defines “culturally normal?”
Yeah I had two thoughts. What is culturally normal. Alls I can say for certain its definately not what the average republican thinks it is.
DEMOCRATS want to ABORT babies AFTER they are BORN!!!
It’ll never cease to amaze (read: infuriate) me how conservatives and establishment dems continuously say that trans issues are getting a “disproportionate amount of time” when we weren’t ever going to get jack shit from Biden or Harris outside of a mention here or there.
It of course goes without saying that these issues don’t detract from other ones and time can and should be spent on them all. It also of course goes without saying that Newsom can eat a dick.
- Vire (vi/vim
I think Newsom is the one who could take notes on what’s culturally normal.
Define normal pissant. I’m sure my Inland Imperial cultural norms would rub a shitstain like Newsome in all the wrong ways, least of all my absolute contempt for authority.
Stop being hypercapitalist swine
Well now I’m just gonna be weird EVEN HARDER.
I can’t hear what you’re saying with all that shoe pollish in your mouth.
Divide-the-left effort going hard here.
You can tell because they have no alternative, only offering demotivation/departicipation
Not like they’re putting a gun to Gavin’s head and forcing him to repeatedly be a transphobic shithead (like, he has been this way for years in multiple interviews with multiple outlets now)
If we don’t want the left getting demotivated we should get leaders who don’t attack us all the time
I mean we get these dick heads because of how even ranked choice voting works.
It doesn’t matter if 1/3 of lefties vote for a true leftie, if we don’t beat the Dems, then our votes go Dem…unless your not putting any rank vote on a Dem. Witch (it hurts to say it) is irresponsible
Well, that approach got you Trump and Stephen Miller. How’s that going?
Coming from the most abnormal idiot
But people will still hold their noses and claim, “He’s better than Trump!”
He probably is, but so is a rotting pile of dead cockroaches. It’s not a high bar.
You mean be more like Kamala…
Ok, so if we want to win we should do the opposite thing then.
You gonna take a bite of that turds sandwich?
