Gavin Newsom is useful right now, very useful, but let me be clear: he should NEVER be President, as he remains an "enlightened centrist" on certain social issues. This is America we're talking about, y'all should be lifting each other up without it being at the expense of a marginalized community.
And so, beggars can't be choosers is that the deal? I don't like the guy either, but if he's the only port in the storm I'm docking there.
This is the adult way to look at it. Vote whoever in the primary. But commit 100% to vote Dem - whoever it is - in the general.
Exactly... If one can ward off a Civil War, Civil Unrest, Revolution... This is one major way to do that. Ask any surviving WWII era German or Italian
As each day passes and that mad man and his cabal remain in power, I sadly see one or more of those dark futures becoming more of a certainty than a warning...
Man...this is killing me all over again. I still have PTSD from living through the fallout of WWII. I am OK with that, it's the reality us doing it all again that kills me.
Time is a flat circle it seems, and rather than learning from history we're becoming exceedingly more efficient at repeating it 😩
It is true. The worst of human impulses rising to the top again.
Look, if the circus presents to you the only options of either a ringmaster under strict choreography or a clown who has promised to kill us all, I would pick the ringmaster. Sitting out and pouting did not work in '16 or '24.
He's a republican. When his aunt by marriage, Pelosi forced Biden out. The billionaires wanted Newsom. They didn't want Kamala Harris and didn't help her because if she got in Newsom, he wouldn't be able to.
Don't be a fucking idiot.
He's against universal health care, single payer. He's just now thinking about the homeless problem, political stunt.
He's republican = Reagan democrat I will say not maga
Absolutely
He's useful right now and the woman that he hired to write those tweets hopefully will have a job in the next campaign for President of anyone but Newsom.
Let me be clear: the only people saying Gavin is going to run for president are leftists. Normal Dems aren’t talking about this. This is nonstop analysis and litigation of a strawman candidate. And it is boring AF.
Okay.
Illinois (Pritzker) is more nationally electable than California anyway
Preach. I like him.
I’m more concerned about the midterms and if they’re even going to happen. In the meantime maga trolls pretending to be trans are the new code pink traitors trying to tear the coalition apart
Yes. There is a lot of this going on here. I don’t see it anywhere else. But if Newsom is trending here, the code pink folks are why.
Pretty sure transphobic Newsom supporters like yourself are closer ideologically to MAGA than any trans person. What a disgusting thing to say.
We are fast approaching a post-truth world, and MAGA accelerationists are pushing down on that gas pedal. I didn't know about the fake trans accounts but, shit, I'd 100 percent believe it. Scoundrels, the lot of them. MAGA is a fucking pestilence.
Oh they’re scoundrels all right. If you don’t agree with them 💯 they’ll stab you in the back and stomp on your head. Who cares if they trample Title 9? Women are disposable.
You're literally campaigning to take our rights away, and you decide to say you've been stabbed in the back bc a bunch of people don't like your shitty meme candidate?
Well. He’d never win. No CA liberal is ever getting 270.
If anyone has a shot in hell at beating whatever the hell is in there now it might be Gavin Newsom who is not perfect none of them are but he’s getting under their leather skin…I love that 😁
Honestly, I just want my democracy back!!! We can quibble after that!!
'28 is not only 3 years away but still unconfirmed to be even happening. Call out his transphobia and attacks on the homeless et al., but don't bin him entirely while he's fighting for democracy (even if it is his shallow vanity project). We must encourage more high-ranking Dems to fight like him.
Sorry we're beyond a purity test. We're facing a fascist dictatorship. I like Pritzker myself but I'll take any Dem with guts.
Uh huh.
