Ah the wonders of lemmy. A group of people who wonder how Trump won and then insist any replacement must be perfect.
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Aw poor Gavin newsome, hell have to displace some of californias most vulnerable people via sweeps to feel better. If only we gave him more power we could have avoided this
Perfection? The only thing that stopped him from joining the right is that Trump holds grudges. That fascist reject hung out with Charlie Kirk and threw trans people under the bus despite boasting about how much he supports the queers for decades. He tried so hard to join them because he has always been a slimy pickme neofeudalist. If he gets elected, there will not be the reforms needed to prevent fascism from rising again. Hell, he might even usher it in.
Also, how do you think Harris lost to Trump? Do you think the Democrats bear no responsibility for it? That there were no long term trends that led to populism; tends helped along in equal part by both parties? Is it only that the nonvoters ruined perfection? Are there really no tactical missteps that you can remember from 2024? Really!?
Under Newsom, California is the 4th largest GDP on the planet and the Davos losers listened to racist, pedophile, rapist, felon fucknut!?!?
That's pretty good, but it has two extra red stripes in the tent.
I could go for some Red Stripe. Think they'll let me in?
Ayy, my favorite beer 🙌
Bad link, ads for days
Probably the same company that owns the USA network. Watching shows on that network will make you want throw your tv out the window. 6 minute ads per 4.5 minutes of show time. Their ads just keep gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooing. And yes. That's how absurd they are.
Not even close to being a vaguely related company.
Yep just looked it up. Today is not nearly as bad as Network. Network is like a mosquito.
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Yeah and then he ripped them a new one at the event that he did end up speaking at in Davos.
Time for my least favorite game!
"Imagine a Democrat did that to a Republican!"
... Fox News would be running that story for a week, screaming at the public about how they're being discriminated against and how the Democrats hate freedom and free speech. How they hate "you" and your "values" etc etc etc...
This is really funny considering Trump and Newsome seem to agree on quite a few things
Do you think newsom would steal children from parents, shoot mothers, molest children and call for war and tariffs?
Do you think newsom would let a prick like Steve miller pull his Hitler act?
These two people are not the same.
I would one thousand percent prefer Newsom over Trump and I almost guarantee Newsom wouldn’t send his brownshirts into red states to shoot mothers.
I mean a lot of us have been voting blue no matter who for our entire adult lives and things keep ratcheting right into Nazi land
I've been voting that way too. I question it often but haven't changed my mind yet.
I might have an issue with "vote blue no matter who" were it not for the fact that the morons around us are voting by the tens of millions FOR Nazi land!
They had the opportunity to vote for the center-right corporate-friendly administration that will probably not get much progressive stuff done because they have the same billionaire donors.
But no, they voted for the idiotic criminal self-labeled dictator THREE TIMES! They cared more about who could get hurt (LGBT, minority, female, "other") than whether we could actually improve society.
The DNC shares a ton of blame too. I don't mean to leave them out of it. I hope that some young progressive voices can drag the party to the left. It would be great to not be forced into a two party system in the first place of course, but I worry that the only way such a change will happen any time soon is that a lot of people die and then the survivors write new rules.
The democrats just voted to give ICE more money. They always do this and then we ratchet right into Nazi land… I’m getting pretty old and this always happens. I’ve watched it my entire life the democrats don’t ever do anything to stop the evil. They enable it every time
Exactly. Americans need to do something else because there isn’t any voting their way out of this. Keep voting democrat, but know that it wont actually fix anything. It’s not meant to.
The point isn't to keep voting for democrats because they will save us.
The point, given we are forced into a two party system, is more about trying to take over the party most of the time while also voting against the outright nazis in general elections.
Newsome is going to enable the tech billionaires and Israel so basically we will keep marching in lockstep with project 2025 with funny tweets. He has been fighting the one time 5% billionaire tax proposal in California and he vetoes everything that upsets shareholder profit in California.
with funny tweets
Those are from a team of social media savvy folks. He's demonstrated that he doesn't always understand his own tweets.
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If they are homeless or trans, Newsome is happy to arrest or shoot them.
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He just kneeled and licked the boots of fascist Ben Shapiro, the gap is much smaller than you’d think
Yeah talking with a shitty media personality is basically the same as deploying brownshirts and the actual military to American cities
If you can't see how regularly platforming and legitimizing right wing ghouls to your predominantly liberal audience creates the permission structure that allows for the deploying of various breed of thugs to American cities, I don't know what to tell you.
Gavin Newsom is a dangerous man, and should be treated as such.
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Yet without popular reform, which he is constitutionally opposed to, they can't win. Your lesser of two assholes arguments has no answer to the fact that these status quo democrats cannot reliably win. Now with republicans cheating in so many ways, that's especially true.
He had his chance in 2024 and he declined to stand up and take the election.
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