Democratic voters to Newsom: Fuck off.
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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.
Yeah, they sure seem like they're just going to keep doing that though. So all of us sober and sane voters who know how critical this election is going to be should just make sure we don't let Newsom become the candidate, right?
Ideally, the sober and sane voters will vote in the primary against him so there is a good candidate during the general to vote for. Regardless, Newsome is better than anything the Republicans will push through primaries, so if that's the less bad option, then that's the unfortunate reality of a FPtP election system. I think we're all hoping that the primaries give a good option, not a less bad option, but people have to show up.
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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.
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.
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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?
Watching a few of his answers and the smarmy face he maintains throughout them makes me wonder why anyone in the know thinks this guy has a chance in the primary.
The DNC expects voters to just fall in line, just like they did with Harris... oh wait.
Harris is a great example because she had a lot of institutional support and big money backing in 2020 and flamed out. With alternatives available, he's toast.
He just can't compete on emotional appeal with people like AOC or Buttigieg (I don't trust him, but he can speak well). And some of the other governors could point to political achievements, but his governing highlights have been stopping Democrats from creating law to help people and thinking his own rules didn't apply to him during the pandemic.
For many reasons, unfortunately Buttigieg is a better candidate than Newsom. That's kind of sad.
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He has a chance if there are enough rich people backing him.
Harris had a lot of the exact same rich people backing her in 2020. Some politicians just don't have "it" no matter how much money is behind them.
And, coincidentally, Harris never won a primary
Counterexample: Biden's victory in South Carolina combined with most of his primary opponents dropping out and endorsing him all at once carried him to victory, aided by rich person backing. Newsom can use a similar strategy to win the 2028 nomination.
This just shows that money can boost a candidate but not make them happen if they don't have the ability. Biden was the default, the refuge after all their other candidates weren't demonstrating an ability to go the distance. If money alone was enough, they would have just stayed with Harris.
Newsom doesn't have the history to be that default option. Why choose him when Buttigieg is out there, no longer just a mayor, or Beshear is telling his red state success story, or Kelly is out there as a purple state astronaut? Plenty of moderates to choose from with better stories and better personalities.
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If by "it" you mean running to the right and supporting an incredibly unpopular genocide then sure.
She had the wealthy backing her in 2020 because they assumed that the public was going to support a DNC token.
If it's a competition of getting rich people then you're guaranteed to loose.
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.
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I think Newsom is the one who could take notes on what’s culturally normal.
Well now I’m just gonna be weird EVEN HARDER.
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
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.
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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
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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.
Ok, so if we want to win we should do the opposite thing then.
You mean be more like Kamala.....
Gavin Israel First Newsom
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