People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.
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OK. We need more than one. And Newsom has a certain panache
aug 25, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I love how he manages to maintain an air of Midwestern Uncle through the whole thing
aug 26, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 25, 2025, 9:54 pm • 8 0 • view
Yes Pritzker is a great governor and a true patriot. He has drawn a line against fascism.Newsom as well. Let’s not run them just yet for president. They’re working together on this. Let this happen. We need everyone.
aug 25, 2025, 10:15 pm • 6 0 • view
Okay, fair, I won't run anyone for President yet, but I will tell everyone within hearing that Newsom's being awful to trans people right now, and that's a general reason to dislike him with no speculation as to when that dislike might be expressible at a ballot box.
aug 26, 2025, 4:17 am • 2 0 • view
I support Newsom's social media team; I want them running training sessions and weekly strategy calls with every Dem. governor's team. I want Newsom himself to shut up about trans people, stop digging himself into bad policy positions, and stop appearing on right-wing podcasts.
aug 26, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
It's all hands on deck. Enough with the disunity.
aug 25, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Sometimes hands fall overboard and that’s where Gav belongs. Floating in the wake of progress.
aug 26, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
So maybe Newsom should show unity with trans folks instead of throwing us under the bus?
aug 25, 2025, 11:06 pm • 14 0 • view
Absolutely he should.
aug 25, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Was anyone saying "he's the best we can do"? The most charitable I've seen amounts to "if we gotta, we gotta"
aug 26, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
I deeply, deeply hope we can avoid a Newsom-as-a-candidate future. Pritzker's just so much BETTER. He's better for the trans community, he's better for labor unions, and as an added bonus, he doesn't give me the ick.
aug 26, 2025, 12:33 am • 4 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 10:56 am • 1 0 • view
The other thing to keep in mind about Pritzker: he is gov of IL. IL is *notorious* for having governors leave office and go to prison for corruption. He's been gov for 7 years and, granted, I am no longer in an IL media market, but I've heard *nothing* abt the pay-to-play stuff typical of IL.
aug 25, 2025, 10:48 pm • 11 0 • view
In other words, he's looks like he has a strong record for being *clean* coming out of a place that has really dirty politics. That can be really powerful up against a regime as openly corrupt as the Trump regime.
aug 25, 2025, 11:27 pm • 7 0 • view
The closest thing to criminality I've seen from him is the toilet thing.
aug 25, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup, that's all I could find. And (a) that is so incredibly minor, (b) before he took office, and (c) SEVEN years ago. This wouldn't have even made the list for Blagojevich's corruption.
aug 26, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
Pritzker is the real deal.
aug 25, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Newsom is flash and he's helping in the moment, Pritzker is steel and doing a helluva lot of really good work. Leader work. I'll take a fighter from Chicago any day. The man would make a really good President.
aug 25, 2025, 11:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Newsom isn't not standing up for trans people. He's joining in with Trump and MAGA kicking trans people.
aug 25, 2025, 10:08 pm • 25 0 • view
Maybe if he kicks just this one more trans person the fascist voters will finally join behind him? Or maybe just one more after that. No? Another? Maybe a homeless person now.
aug 26, 2025, 4:59 am • 4 0 • view
YES, dammit. Get Pritzker in that fight, do it early!
aug 25, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
"but like why can't we get a candidate who posts like a boomer and hates trans people like a boomer"
aug 25, 2025, 11:10 pm • 9 0 • view
And yet he's a billionaire! I am willing to set that aside for now, though.
aug 25, 2025, 9:56 pm • 10 0 • view
Yeah, but he's fat and Newsom is a Hollywood above-average. (which is incredibly handsome for a politician) Most people can barely pay attention to things beyond looks and vibe when in the middle of a Presidential campaign, let alone more than three years out.
aug 26, 2025, 4:25 am • 0 0 • view
I would 100% vote for Pritzker over Newsom. Newsom is trolling Trump on the internet, which is useful and fun. Pritzker is replacing the shuttered federal LGBT hotline with a state hotline for queer people in his state. He's doing something.
aug 25, 2025, 9:56 pm • 27 0 • view
Why the need to pit Dems against Dems? They are all doing the work against Trump. Amplify their messages. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/16/f...
aug 25, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
“Why must we pit one Democrat doing good things against another Democrat who smiles as he destroys the lives of incredibly vulnerable people and accepts money to actively support fascist bigots?”
aug 26, 2025, 4:48 am • 1 0 • view
You can applaud the crap Newsom is doing to Trump AND point out that he’s a piece of shit who will throw any sufficiently powerless group under the bus if it increases his visibility by .01%.
aug 26, 2025, 4:52 am • 2 0 • view
Because one is going directly against this
aug 25, 2025, 10:53 pm • 7 0 • view
Because Newsom is platforming transphobes and agreeing with them that trans youth shouldn't be allowed to transition until *their mid twenties*.
aug 25, 2025, 10:59 pm • 25 0 • view
"Why the need to pit Dems against Dems?" That is LITERALLY what a primary IS, that is the entire fucking point of this part of the election cycle, we are on the Dem vs Dem step, comparing them to find the best Dem is one of the HIGHEST priorities right now, make them fucking prove their worth.
aug 27, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
Because Newsom has a history of being all talk, no walk. We weren’t born yesterday
aug 25, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Prizker/Beshear ? 👀
aug 25, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I am very impressed with his response. I don’t know anything about him. I’m quite frankly never heard of him before today, but I like his attitude he stood up to dumb dumb Donald. #DementiaDonald
aug 27, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
That man. Gov. Pritzker is calling it out. He's on it. No skin off Newsome, either. We need more Governors to step up enmasse. Show of solidarity. #TEAMWORK
aug 26, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
Pritzker's may have delivered the speech of the century. I hope Governors, both D and R will continue to speak out again our dictator and his NAZI trope.
aug 26, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
Are any R Governors speaking out against trump? I haven't heard any.
aug 26, 2025, 11:54 am • 0 0 • view
Not yet. But we need them to speak out and not capitulate.
aug 26, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view
We Do. R's will not.
aug 26, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
to be fair, california's best effort at anything the past thirty years has been little different to texas' approaching and exceeding alabama, at times blue state by reputation, red state by rulers
aug 26, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
This is the right message too: we are watching you & taking notes. You will be held accountable.
aug 25, 2025, 10:54 pm • 6 0 • view
Absolutely. Trolling Donny might be fun, but it doesn’t actually do anything beyond exposing hypocrisy (which we already knew). We don’t need another clown. We need someone who will fight for us.
aug 25, 2025, 11:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Ridicule actually can be an effective tool against fascists, as it punctures their aura of invincibility and lessens the fear of them.
aug 27, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
True, but ridicule shouldn’t be the only thing a potential leader can offer.
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
It can be an effective tool, but you are correct that of course it shouldn't be the ONLY tool. And so far the resistance from Dem leadership has been pathetic.
aug 27, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Did anyone say Newsom is the best we can do?
aug 26, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
I am in California, and perhaps this is a coastal thing, but no one I know likes Newsome.
aug 26, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
My suspicion is that most of the big Newsom energy the past few weeks has been more conservative Dems in red states who assume that because he’s the governor of CA he must be whatever their wishlist vision of liberal/progressive is.
aug 26, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 25, 2025, 11:37 pm • 6 1 • view
Listen, Newsom has a place, but he's doing "Haha I made a hat that makes fun of you" while Pritzker is at the mic going "There is no corner of the Earth where you will be able to escape my wrath." We have options.
aug 25, 2025, 9:41 pm • 282 42 • view
What do you mean the trans-misic fascist who loves to publicly violate homeless people's belongings "has a place"? How? Where?
aug 26, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
And just, selfishly as a fellow Big Dude, I feel like Pritzker's got that Grown Man Strength and could snap Newsom like a twig.
aug 25, 2025, 9:43 pm • 76 0 • view
He wouldn’t need to. He could break Newsom with a knowing “I’m very disappointed.”
aug 25, 2025, 9:50 pm • 27 0 • view
"Sit down!" boomed Pritzker, giving Newsome a jab in the chest with a thick finger. The jab had the effect of knocking Newsome into the chair behind him, where he assumed a resigned posture and sulked silently.
aug 25, 2025, 10:17 pm • 11 0 • view
All I’m saying is that a savvy meme maker is already putting Pritzker’s face over Mr Sakamoto
aug 25, 2025, 11:17 pm • 6 0 • view
And imagine it like all old-timey, you know?
aug 25, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Like when Batman just glares at some mook who drops his gun and takes off.
aug 25, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s fierce! There’s a reason his nick is “The Great Khan of the Prairie”
aug 25, 2025, 11:03 pm • 2 0 • view