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If Newsom wins he picks the DNC chair and he'll pick someone solidly in the oligarchs pocket.
Don't forget he started 2025 off by having Kirk and Bannon on his podcast and sucking them off about how smart they are and how they're right on "social issues" like if LGBTQ people should be allowed to exist in society...
It's fucking dissapointing that people keep eating out of his hand for social media posts an intern is posting.
It's satisfying to see someone give Trump a taste of his own medicine.
I know Newsome isn't on my side but I can still enjoy watching him give Trump a black eye.
It would be so satisfying to see...
Gavin (successfully) tear down Trump...
Hype himself up for a presidential run...
And get primaried by someone who actually gives a shit about the working class.
Stop it I'm in public and its embarrassing to get this aroussd looking at my phone.
And get primaried by someone who actually gives a shit about the working class.
He 100% will, and if say it's a safe bet he pulls a Cuomo and goes independent.
He already tried to pivot to maga once, "attacking" trump is the back.plan, but he'll gladly work with trump after losing the Dem primary like RFK did and Cuomo is now.
I would only support Gavin Newsom's candidacy if he became homeless for a few years and demonstrated personal growth and a capacity for empathy from the experience.
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I'm exaggerating, but it'd take a lot for me to become convinced he is a suitable candidate in our dire situation.
Best he can do is Starting from Zero and becoming a millionaire in a year to show you anyone can do it (as long as they have a clean bill of health and a college education and connections from their time in office and...)
"See!? It's easy, the American Dream™ is alive and well!"
As I recall, the one guy that tried to do that used personal connections he had made before "giving up all his wealth", and he still couldn't make it a year because it was affecting his health or something.
Who else is running?
Gavin Newsom is free to earn my vote? I don't see how your question is relevant - the election is years out.
"If those people wanted food to eat they should have earned it, otherwise it's not my problem"
That makes about as much sense as shifting the conversation into terms of some politician having to "earn your vote" and otherwise it's not your problem what happens.
If Gavin Newsom is running against Hitler, it's kind of important to vote for Newsom, whether or not he has "earned your vote."
If you want to know the non-toxic way of executing this approach, Ralph Nader has written an excellent book about how to put pressure on people in power and what he believes is the way forward out of the horror we find in our current political system (even predating the current horror). Basically, you pressure them to adopt specific policies by forming up into a bloc with other voters and refusing to vote unless some specific policy change you want to see happens. The advantages this has over staying home and saying "they haven't earned it" include:
There are a lot of other things in addition obviously, but if you're going to "protest vote," that is the way I would recommend to do it.
I’d settle for him not being a major shareholder for the power utility that he’s supposed to be protecting his citizens from. In completely unrelated news, we pay the highest energy prices on planet earth. What a coincidence.
These 20s sure do be roaring
Looks like the 1930s in the US ...
Please stop doing the DNC's work for them by amplifying Gavin Newsom. We need real change in this country, not a return to the status quo.
Thank the gods someone realizes this.
Newsom is a solid status quo maintainer with 2 or 3 senior edgelord staff.
We need to win an election. 2026 is not going to be a blue wave. 2028 IDK even what's going to happen but if we aren't running a serious candidate, it's over. There is no time for "let's find someone that passes every single group's tests." This is time for "getting our shit together."
Bill Clinton said it right, Republicans fall in line, Democrats fall in love. Y'all need to stop thinking this a budding romance. It's not. It's the business of recapturing middle America's vote to have enough of a party to DO things like educate voters, which is not happening at all right now, which can then turn into the social change we want. Trying to get out the door with ideologically out-of-touch positions, like letting homeless people encamp anywhere they want, makes middle America turn away from us. It sets us up for failure, and then NO ONE helps the homeless.
Can we not be promoting this guy?
This is a distraction from better candidates.
Canwe please promote a better candidate?
Well, we could promote AOC.
Except centrists are saying women can't win. Because they're willing to hold back all women to prevent AOC in particular from running.
Gavin Newsom is not the answer to Donald Trump. He's a lackey to big corporations.
AOC on the other hand
Kinda weird to host a themed party to not dress up? Like... generate an asthetic to behold for yourself, but then not actually participate... kinda spoils the effect for others. But not you, I guess.
Maybe the theme was actually 1920’s gangsters which means his costume is spot on.
The system won't be the tiniest bit less corrupt with newsom at the wheel.
I'm not a Newsom fan but this is just an absurd thing to say. It would be a feat for anyone to be as corrupt as Trump. If you wrote a book with a villain as openly corrupt as Trump, it would be panned as unrealistic.
Really?
Really? Not the tiniest bit?
Well, you’re wrong. But let’s start fighting now because whatever he is, he’s getting traction and The Savior of The Left is once again nowhere to be found. We’ll have three full years of “He sucks” b/w “Oh you want more fascism then?” And then we’ll get more fascism because the left is utterly incapable of uniting.
If AOC jumps in, though, dissent will not be brooked. Because you fuckers are so goddamned insufferable she’ll be “supporting genocide” and “transphobic” before the ink is dry on her campaign document. And that will not stand, man.
Absolutely insane that America has been taught to demand all the worst parts of certain communist ideology without any possible benefit under the guise of protectionism just so a bunch of white me can don't have to confront the fact they have no personality or empathy and money doesn't fill that hole
Goddamn costume ball while the Titanic sinks.
Are men supposed to be wearing caps indoors, or seated at the table? I thought you were supposed to take your hat off.
Not when you're rich enough that no-one can talk back and you have a bald spot you're shamed of.
I’m surprised this man has time to tweet given all the time he dedicates to personally destroying the possessions of the most vulnerable people in his state.
How is this a meme?
It's as much a meme as 99% of the other "Text with a political message" posts there are on here.
Gatsby turned out all right in the end, but I don't think the same will be said of Mr. Orange.
