Good luck but most people are voting for whomever can beat Trump. We don’t have the luxury of a perfect candidate for every single person.
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go f(uck) yourself
aug 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
@govpritzker.illinois.gov is right there.
aug 27, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
You should listen to all the people saying that Newsom is not a candidate who can beat trump. Maybe even the things you’re replying to indicate that he’s not a good candidate
aug 27, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
I can’t even see Newsom winning the primary. I don’t think even he can see it, that’s why he’s been desperately trying to raise his national profile. Too bad he’s making himself such an easy target for his opponents, “He’s friends with Steve Bannon” will play great on the debate stage.
aug 27, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you looked at Trump's recent polling? It's horrible, and it's not going to improve. *ANY* Democrat can beat Trump. It's ridiculous to claim that Newsom (or anyone else) is the only person who can beat him, especially 38 months out.
aug 27, 2025, 3:22 pm • 16 0 • view
Newsom’s approval rating in California is 27%, one of the highest numbers he’s pulled in years, I’d be shocked if he can even win the nomination let alone beat Trump.
aug 27, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 0 • view
For that matter, why are so many of us just assuming that the Democratic nominee in the 2028 election will be facing off against Trump? Even if he somehow gets around the "constitutionally ineligible for a third term" thing he's an old man in declining health who might not even be ALIVE by 2028!
aug 27, 2025, 4:01 pm • 2 0 • view
We're not asking for perfect, we're asking for the bare fucking minimum.
aug 27, 2025, 5:08 pm • 5 0 • view
Newsom can't beat Trump
aug 27, 2025, 3:38 pm • 4 0 • view
"Good luck, but most of us are too stupid to learn from our previous failures and we're gonna make the same mistakes once again
aug 27, 2025, 3:28 pm • 10 0 • view
I'd bet that not many people even knew Barack Obama was the junior senator from Illinois in August, 2005. We won't have a real front-runner for the primaries for 16 more months.
aug 27, 2025, 5:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Literally… if we get another Obama style politician/campaign/movement they will hit our radars February 2027 lol
aug 27, 2025, 5:18 pm • 3 0 • view
he will lose
aug 27, 2025, 4:55 pm • 4 0 • view
U are parroting the bullshit that people are demanding "perfect" when what we're really asking for is "won't compromise on basic human rights in order to win an election." The real delusion is ppl insisting that if we just vote for the milquetoast centrist Dem 1 more time, everything will change.
aug 27, 2025, 3:26 pm • 15 1 • view
Trans people don't have the luxury of voting for someone who placates transphobes on his podcast. bsky.app/profile/illc...
aug 27, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
MOTHER FUCKER. This is not about a "perfect canidate" but one who meets the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM that us dirty queers need of "not being a bigot" that you cishet shitstains are so willing to sell us down the river for
aug 27, 2025, 3:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Honestly its shitheads like you that garruentees that if we ever "return to normal" we queers will never trust cishet pos libs ever again
aug 27, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
protecting everyone’s basic, fundamental human rights should be the baseline, the absolute minimum. stop framing it as some pie-in-the-sky perfection ideal. it should be the one non-negotiable thing. there can’t be one community we sacrifice as undeserving of those protections. it’s pretty simple.
aug 27, 2025, 4:20 pm • 14 3 • view
If tons of people are telling you they'd never vote for him, maybe the "can beat Trump" label doesn't apply then.
aug 27, 2025, 3:29 pm • 15 0 • view
Vote for Pritzker or Walz.
aug 27, 2025, 3:30 pm • 11 0 • view
What year do you think it is right now?
aug 27, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
This statement rests on two huge assumptions: 1) That Trump will run in 2028 despite being Constitutionally ineligible to do so, not to mention his advanced age and visibly declining health 2) That Newsom is the only viable candidate the Democrats find in the next 3 years despite his many flaws
aug 27, 2025, 3:51 pm • 41 2 • view
So far I have not heard Gavin newsom say that he is going to run for president in 2028 Maybe I'm just not in the loop. Beyond that, trans adults in the US only make up .8% of the population. I don't think the trans vote means that much, though I am very sympathetic to their cause.
aug 28, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
oh, so you sympathize but won't do shit to help the 2.7+ million of us facing genocide. You'll wring your hands and say, "It's a shame no one stopped this" after we're corpses. fuck you
aug 29, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for being sympathetic to our plight, I guess…
aug 28, 2025, 12:10 pm • 10 0 • view
I'm not trying to belittle the situation I'm just being a realist. we have to defeat this fascism as expeditiously as possible. There's no such thing as a perfect candidate. No matter what there's going to be some groups that will not be happy with the candidate chosen. I have a trans son. I worry.
aug 28, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
If Democrats win elections while saying trans people should lose the rights they currently have, and shouldn't gain any further rights, then trans people will lose their rights for at least a generation. Look at how fast that's happening in the UK now that being anti-trans is mainstream politics
aug 28, 2025, 10:46 pm • 6 0 • view
I understand that and as I stated before I have a trans son that I worry about a lot. But for analogy imagine that you're drowning and the only way you could be saved is by someone grabbing you by the genitals. It's going to be painful and maybe even damaging long-term but you will survive and heal.
aug 29, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude, stop dancing around it and say you’re willing to sacrifice your kid’s life to potentially save a lot of other folks. That’s a position many people will be sympathetic to, as long as you don’t expect the people *being* sacrificed to agree.
aug 29, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I have literally no clue what in the hell you are referring to. You think that because I like what Gavin newsome is doing that I'm willing to sacrifice my son's life? You must be the dumbest fuck on this platform.
aug 29, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re talking about saving people, even if it’s uncomfortable, and we’re trying to tell you that these policies WON’T save trans people, they will doom them. You’re advocating for politicians whose policies could LITERALLY kill your kid, and have killed people like them.
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
So maybe you’re not willing to sacrifice your trans kid, but you want other parents to be willing to sacrifice their trans kids. That’s selfish and cruel.
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
A world in which your kid can’t get healthcare, or use a public restroom, or be around children, is literally where the UK is getting to right now in under a center-left government. Many people just can’t survive under those restrictions. And trans kids, like your kids once was, are dying.
aug 29, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I think you should spend less time talking to trans leftists online and more time educating yourself and (more importantly) your son. If you’d like a list of books/authors I’d recommend I’d be happy to dm you.
aug 29, 2025, 12:15 pm • 6 0 • view
Also, if you can name a candidate that you think would be perfect next Presidential run give me their name and I promise you I will be able to come up with at least five things that prove that person to be ill fitted for the job. There are no perfect candidates and everyone wants their agenda met.
aug 29, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think a perfect political candidate exists, I very much believe in electing policies not people but that being said, the inverse is not true. There are disqualifying factors, Newsom has hit a bunch of them.
aug 29, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure I'd welcome a list I already have a few books but if there are others you think would be beneficial I would certainly be open suggestion. This whole thing is new to me as I only discovered his secret life a couple of years ago and he doesn't live at home so it was easily kept from the family.
aug 29, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I will check these resources out however would I caution you to be open-minded as well. I'm 55 years old and have been involved in politics in one way or another since 1988. If you think people are constantly attacking you and the entire world is out to get you generally leads to a victim complex.
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I pity your son for his father is willing to watch millions of people like him die because you don't want to bother finding a candidate that isn't willing to sacrifice a minority group for political gains that never materialize.
aug 29, 2025, 6:27 pm • 6 0 • view
With your vitriolic attitude it's not surprising people want to put you in a concentration camp. And never did I say that I wasn't willing to look for another candidate. Perhaps reading comprehension isn't one of your skills. So fuck you back. With that attitude nobody's going to want to help you
aug 29, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
"it's not surprising people want to put you in a concentration camp" This is really the kind of thing that, once you type it out, you should re-read and see if maybe it makes you sound like a pyschopath.
aug 30, 2025, 3:59 pm • 13 1 • view
You previously framed your reluctance to do more than "sympathize" with "I don't think the trans vote is worth much" as though our rights and existence were dependent on population size. You also seem to find it justified that people want us dead for being rude, so pardon me for being uncharitable.
aug 29, 2025, 7:33 pm • 5 0 • view
We've been nice and cordial in our fight for health care, equity, and basic human rights for years so please, oh magnificent one, excuse those of us who saw it gain us nothing so we switched rhetorical tactics.
aug 29, 2025, 7:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you disagree that the trans vote is it's less than 900,000 total for the country? Do you think that any politician would consider that a "game changing" demographic? What I said is factual not defamatory or demeaning.
aug 29, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Again, you are framing whether or not we deserve basic human rights on population size, of which there are approximately 2.7+ million of us in the US. I find it as disgusting as saying, "babies can't vote, so we'll let 3 million die instead of literally doing anything."
aug 29, 2025, 7:52 pm • 5 0 • view
“The trans vote” being based on the trans population is you implying that only trans people will vote in favor of protecting their own rights. The actual voting population is much larger than that bc some people actually care about and vote in favor of protecting others
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 pm • 6 0 • view
Jesus, buddy. Calm down. Have a snickers.
aug 30, 2025, 4:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I think people who are mean to me online still deserve their human rights, actually
aug 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 13 1 • view
Gavin Newsom thinks your son shouldn’t get healthcare til he’s 25 and he has gleefully told two RW podcast hosts as such. We need to actively discourage people from supporting Gavin Newsom and not give them even an inch on this shit.
aug 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 4 0 • view
To me it's much more nuanced than that. Gavin newsom can want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first. I would obviously prefer someone else and they're probably will be someone else but in the meantime he's taking the wind out of trump's sales and I dig it.
aug 28, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 1 • view
Trans rights are human rights. A politician who would sacrifice trans people the second he believes it will give him a momentary political advantage will sacrifice you too. As for Gavin running in 2028, his POTUS ambitions have been clear since his Mayoral days to those who have been watching him.
aug 28, 2025, 1:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Although his ambitions are clear that does not mean that he will be the nominee. I remember some of the shitty things that he's done and if there were a better choice I would definitely take it but right now he has got trump on the ropes and I am all for that
aug 28, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
All the more reason we have absolutely no obligation to rally around him as if he was the only alternative to Trumpism. We owe it to ourselves and others to keep the DNC honest enough to ensure we don't get a shitty nominee.
aug 28, 2025, 8:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Good luck with that. I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican if you are elected into a political office eventually you going to be corrupted. In fact the only ones haven't been are the exception that proves the rule.
aug 28, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Calling out bad behavior, corruption and prejudice where we see it and demanding better is the only way things improve. Ever.
aug 28, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I can't argue with that but I would just add that it's a long road until the next presidential election and right now lots of people are loving Gavin newsom but in a year they might not. I'm aware of his shitty past and I would vote for a different candidate if there is one that is up to the task.
aug 28, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
What do you mean "we?" You should do something about your head lice
aug 27, 2025, 3:14 pm • 7 0 • view
"we" cis het shit lib men who put no effort about thier politics who assume voting harris and biden makes them a noble cis het who really (doesn't) care about the minorities
aug 27, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
“We” meaning him and the rest of his center-right cohort who’re into the idea of fascism but don’t like how crudely Trump goes about it.
aug 27, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view
sucks for your lack of moral clarity but i’m built different (i have the ability to think about things critically)
aug 27, 2025, 3:37 pm • 17 0 • view
ok, but if he sucks, why do you think he’s the one to beat trump? unless you also suck?
aug 27, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The 22nd Amendment or health problems will beat trump. Why on earth are you complying in advance? If the 22nd doesn’t matter, then why do you think we’ll have an election?
aug 27, 2025, 3:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Not you though. You're trying hard to get someone who is incapable of beating Trump Is that because you are trying to win Elon musk's approval?
aug 27, 2025, 3:28 pm • 12 0 • view