We've got Bill Kristol saying abolish ICE and standing up for trans people, David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto, and Sen. Van Hollen forcing a dictator to give proof of life of a hostage in a death camp. Meanwhile, Dems like Newsom are doing podcasts with fascists. Make it make sense.
i think newsom is getting up close and personal with fash because he needs an ego boost. he knows maga hates him, so he's trying to gain traction among them. moral bankruptcy is rampant among dems.
Newsom gambled and lost. Thank goodness. Here is hoping voters see through Cuomo too.
This would be less surprising for y’all if you believed that even evil white ppl have self preservation and if anti-Blackness and bigotry was a factor in how you evaluate these politicians.
This is showing us who is really anti fascist and who is not regardless of other affiliations. It is also showing us those who prize their comfort and power over standing up against fascism (I'm looking at you, Chuck).
Van Hollen's actions in regards to Mr. Garcia track with his statements and actions regarding other issues of international law.
I'm hesitant to say they're on our side on anything. I will grant that their dissent is useful to our cause though.
Sorry, can't.
If Newsom had any moral compass at all, he would resign for calling Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador a distraction --- *especially* after Van Hollen succeeded in meeting with him.
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Follow the money.
"Centrist" dems (e.g. old school ones like Schumer and Newsom) are simply polite, power-seeking mouthpieces for the same money that runs the GOP. Same company and product, different target marketing.
Democrats are also Fascists
everyone is also a fascist
That's what I'm talking about, schizo
Oh ok, so you’re just admitting it then? Go on you, Fascist At least I don’t have to post that you follow Will Stancil
tankies are so boring
I hope you like the world you live in Because there’s no going back now
fuck me irony is dead
You don’t even know what you’re saying You just parrot responses that you’ve seen other people use when talking to someone smarter than they are
ok ok big guy you're right i give up
Don't even start me on Hickenlooper and Bennet who talk more about "bipartisanship" than having a backbone.
The world is not always sensible.
People with principles who happen to have different world views vs people who are just politicians.
if you ever saw newsom's photo ops of him helping throw away people's personal belongings ("cleaning up homeless encampments"), his role is all this is not a surprise
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Maybe Gavin like spending time with fascists because he agrees with them and want to make the kind of California flavored fascism Jello Biafra tried to warn us about.
@davidhogg.bsky.social is campaigning to replace bad/ineffective/DINO Dems, and we should all support that initiative. Give progressive Dems a chance, and make @governor.ca.gov and the likes become irrelevant. @democrats.org approval rating is abysmal. The party needs a shake down.
liberals colluding with fascists? gasp, completely unprecedented
Some people that voted for Stinky were voting for change. The Dems joining Red Hat won't be missed. Our change is No More Vulture Capitalism BERNIE, AOC and LOTS of others ARE driving the change. The parties have fractured, there's a new game in town and what you see is the birth of something new
Which one intends to run for president?
Just how it always was You never know who is on your side until you're in the thick of it. For perspective both cops and anarchists fought side by side against Franco's fascists during the Spanish civil war.
Never again starts right now. 50 million people in the streets this weekend as a warm-up for 125 million in the streets on July 4. We need to pressure our elected leaders to stand up and impeach this regime.
It's like when you come out, some people you expect to be cool aren't and some you think would react badly don't. People aren't always who you think they are, many aren't who they think they are.
Ooh I think you nailed it
It's like our concept of the world is the ground, and if it moves it kicks up dust and people sometimes end up in different places than they started.
I wonder how much of it is people showing their true colors
I don't think they were consciously hiding anything, its just that that self never had an opportunity to develop. Hemmingway had a good quote about this: “There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
Yeah this is spot on. People act like those abandoning us for fascism always secretly actively wanted to do so, when in reality it's more that even they didn't know they were moral cowards until the leather hit the road
It's a function of our desire to see deliberate, cackling, planned malice when evil is much more commonly lazy and/or driven by fear. We want it to be an elaborate plot because that makes it make sense and fits our worldview, and the truth is uncomfortable
Evergreen
That Hemmingway quote is a banger
Leading indicators vs lagging indicators
"Dems like Newsom"-see? It makes sense.
I like the Abolish ICE. Round ‘em up!
The increase in entropy (disorder) is laid out in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
Political theater.
Some people have principles (right or wrong), and some people just pick the team that they think has the most to offer them.
America is waking up, and the virus infecting us is acting out.
The football player David Brooks? Exciting!
Newsom is a bad guy with no actual beliefs Bill Kristol has actually held beliefs - beliefs he has pursued his entire adult life, and which have been entirely betrayed by the GOP, so he left them I may not agree with many of Kristol's beliefs, but he is at least sincere in them Newsom is not
Better late than never. Welcome to the antifascist resistance ***checks notes*** David Brooks and Bill Kristol?!
I mean in the very least it means some of them have principaled reasoning behind their positions that can cause a shift in how they see the world (no matter how much i disagreed with them) and others are just opportunistic weasels
And, apparently, Bret Stephens? Pigs must be flying all over the place tonight.
Bill Kristol, as much as I hate him for cheerleading the Iraq war, has been anti-Trump for a long time.
Yeah… this broke my brain.
Yeah, this is some strange shit...but fuck it. At least it's something.
Here in Canada, Doug Ford has been my *checks notes* moment. Turns out not every crook is a traitor. Who knew.
Beer for a dollar and a million dead yankees
Same! Agreeing with Doug Ford has been hard in my sense of self
I was aghast at how well he grasped his moment with both hands.
IIRC at least one of those was a NeverTrumper, maybe both? But even freaking Michael Medved and Thomas Sowell became one
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We don't hear much from any of them anymore, because Trump was already doing now what he did back then. Medveds decades-long radio show was replaced by freaking Gorka after Trump became president.
The me of 20 years ago would not believe this.
Ditto 🤦🏼♀️💦
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And Autism Speaks!
*sees post tariff price of three double scotches at the airport* “Spirit of Patrick Henry, to me!!”
Some people legitimately believe in America. That's what it is.
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It appears that we are in a time of sifting. Politicians with no principals are getting exposed.
many people we disagree with actually have a moral core. many we agree with actually don’t.
By protesting against this administration
Newsom is a member of the Newsom party. Always has been. He's a much of a Democrat as Tulsi Gabbard was, only claiming it as a matter of political convenience.
No, he's a perfect example of what the democrats are. People like Schumer and Jeffries didn't rise to power by accident.
Democrats view politics as a high school debate club Republicans view politics as the foundation of society
Makes perfect sense, those first three guys are with us in this fight, the last one isn’t
And you know which type they are going to push as party leader and future presidential candidate.
Newsom is history.
Newsom is a politician and thinks his only path to the White House is to be trump-curious
We have Maga among us
A lot of neocons started out as Trotskyists. It’s just that when radicals switch sides, they don’t become less radical. It’s funny because MAGA is right-wing Maoism at this point.
Follow the money?
Very experienced doctor here. It’s gotta be the Marsala sauce. There’s no other explanation. I said to Brooks: “WELCOME LOKI !” 😳😳
Personal moral compass vs. craven political calculation (& not always a correct one). Explains a lot IN THESE TIMES.
This is easy — Gavin is DQ.
Democrats look god awful right now because when your entire ethos is "lesser evil" and your reference is total fascist overthrow, where do you land? Partial fascist overthrow?
And dems like Gretchen Whitmer are doing this 👇 🤔 michiganadvance.com/2025/01/28/w...
Kristol & Brooks are feeling guilty for being complicit and active and in bringing us to where we are today. They drove us to the edge of the cliff, and are now alarmed that Trump & his loon goons are driving us off it.
It makes sense if you realise most career dems are opportunistic spineless trash
cannot believe gavin newsom, the guy who looks like patrick bateman in real life, is an nihilist opportunist hack
Newton has 40 million Canadians laughing at his tourism ads. Sorry, plead all you want, we’re not going to California until Trump has been removed from office, and ICE and its private militias have been disbanded. It is not safe for foreigners to visit any state during this administration.
If Newsom does something (if!) , for instance about the tariff madness, and the others just talk, talk talk, he makes tons more sense. For the record, the normal people outside not terminally online don't give a shit who invites Charlie "Fruitcake" Kirk into which podcast. Simply irrelevant.
However he just filed a lawsuit against Trump today regarding the tariffs.
well see, that’s newsom. he does the right thing mostly. then really stupid stuff. calling him a slick democrat is not wrong. he lost my vote over the podcasts and dissing trans rights but i ack his work on supporting la fire victims and pushing back on t1.0 and t2.0
Agree!!
Newsom just sued to block tariffs and is doing an end-around - negotiating directly with Canada on trade.
Some serve the people, some only serve themselves.🤷♂️
Brooks and Kristol are not running for office. Newsom is falling into the trap of moving to the right. Such a shift alienates the progressive base and helps the Republican opponent by activating and reinforcing the conservative worldview in people’s brains.
Nah. fck gavin. People are disemboweling him verbally. He is done
Newsom = Rubio? No center, just desire for power
Just wanna give a defense of Gretch She’s getting heat for That pic of her, hiding her face She was hoodwinked into that photo op, never intended for that to take place Bad pic that will leave a mark But I hope we don’t kill her for it She is the real deal
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Controlled opposition
Newsom will say anything to be close to power, and has a streak similar to his ex-wife. He received the message that the Democratic brand was dead, and misread the room. The party in name will survive, but I am voting hard in the primary.
Newsom is an opportunist scumbag owned by corporate interests. That’s it.
Corporate Democrats are collaborators. Hope that helps.
Newsom sucks do not support him for pres. He will sell out anyone if he thinks it will get him votes.
Sending more coffee to the writers’ room is NEVER a good idea.
Have you looked at this timeline? Somebody said “screw the coffee” and sent in a wheelbarrow full of coke cut with some unnamed laboratory leftovers and then locked the doors from the outside!
So — and this is embarrassing — long before Kristol said things I agreed with, I wanted him to because I thought I saw a kindness in his eyes that was incredibly perplexing.
I never thought he was cruel though. Maybe a bit too much logic and not enough heart in the past.
I can’t explain it. At all. Like I pretended he was a lib sometimes. Like a blue dog, nothing crazy and I knew he was a neocon like the rest of them. It’s sobering to realize the extent of psychotic one needs to be to reveal a neocon’s code.
they want that red hat cash it starts and stops there cash “dear friends, welp, we’ll give it to you straight, the nazis are back, won’t you give”
To be fair, Newsom is suing the Admin on tariffs. That’s a good thing.
Yea, I hate the things he’s done lately with his bs podcast but since he’s in office still, I’m glad he is at least pursuing a law suit
Unfortunately it’s outweighed by the fact he’s repeatedly demonstrated he supports the fascists and their goals regarding various people living in the US
This is the weirdest timeline. Kristol, Brooks - yes! Newsom - stahp!
Pete Buttigieg posted 'diversity of tactics' lol
That’s fine - let him play around with his dumb podcast; he will never again hold public office. No more of this failing upward.
Grateful they’re showing their true colors NOW as opposed to after we elect/re-elect them. Bye, Felicia!
You look at Republicans and see great unity, and they seem (mostly) to speak with one voice (Trump's). You look at Democrats and see many different approaches and hear different voices. Republicans act in constant fear of retribution. Democrats are free. Embrace internal differences.
Yes!!
Easy. Dr King was right It’s easier to move a Klanner over to racial Justice (and the left) than it is a white liberal The Klanner is already radicalized They just radicalized in the wrong direction White liberals on the other hand care more about maintaining the status Quo and order than freedom
Newson just sued the Trump administration over tariffs on behalf of CA. I didn’t like the podcasts either but he is hitting back at Trump. Good!
We finally find the "cultural Marxist" the rightwingers keep going on about ... ...and its David Brooks quoting the Communist Manifesto!?
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It’s a sexual harassment scandal a la Elon Musk and/or he’s just fully in the pocket of the broligarchs now.
He has Patrick Bateman energy.
Current operative theory... Gavin Newsome and David Brooks ended up in some sort of Freaky Friday style body swap.
Okay, but firstly you understand that money is the root of _all_ evil, because shit's going to get wild after, like, the fourth installment of my explanation. wait a minute, I'll get the whiteboard.
Newsom just sued Trump over tariffs. Do your research before you post on social media.
Other than the fact that, Neo Conservatism with Irving Kristol has its roots in Trotskyism and leaped into The GOP with Reagan in the mid 80s. Newsom failed to fix the homeless problem in California. Now he wants to run for president.
And ppl saying AOC and Bernie drawing in 35k ppl isn't good enough. That same weekend Trump was cheered by a full UFC arena, so it's absolutely the fight that has to be fought.
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The zeal of the convert There are a ton of moderates out there who have rolled their eyes for years at the idea that Trump is a fascist Then one day their smug normative framework shatters and they realize "holy shit, he IS a fascist!" as it all hits them at once That whiplash creates radicals
I found it surprising that he could find enough equally sadistic and lawless people to fill his administration. I suppose I thought Rubio had a soul and that attorneys kind of liked The Constitution. Silly me.
Rubio, I think, has never forgiven America for not taking him seriously
In which case he will never forgive America.
Newsom is listening to DC based consultants while the others are not
And he told Hollen he was focusing on the wrong things. This is the one thing that loads and loads of Americans agree upon. Due process. Is part of being American.This is what we need to stand up for. We need to help people that need our help because our government is corrupt. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Newsome is a drag on our caucus at the moment oh he’s trying to walk that tight rope with having racists on his podcast , Gov and Maher are trying real hard to rationalize their actions not buying it! They’re normalizing these fuckers by giving them a voice !
Van Hollen is supportive of Palestinian statehood, he’s overall good.
van hollen 2028?!!?
There's a lot between now and then. Let's see if we can get free and fair elections this year and next year first.
I was joking of course; the only way out of fascism is gonna be a revolution bc despite his good intentions, it’s too late and ppl like him too rare in politics to fix things via elections now
Yes he is. He always has been!
Newsom is what the majority of Dems are.
It's what the DNC thinks they should be But I think they are wrong
What other Dems host white power podcasts? @esqueer.net Is the problem Dems or Newsom?
Oh to be a fly on the wall in any of the Dems' strategy meetings
it’s a bit dangerous to be a fly in a room with so many cobwebs
Lotta right of center people grifting in the Dem party.
It does. It's just awful.
My pet theory re: Newsom is that rehabbing a bunch of right wingers is how he buys their oppo
The left is eating the Bill Kristol... they're.. they're eating the David Brooks.
Newsom and our attorney general Bonta just announced yesterday that they are suing Trump for illegally imposing tariffs. They have a really good case.
And Tom Nichols is voting for Democrats. Disorienting AF.
Atp I think we just abandon elected officials like Newsom. Of course still push them to do the right thing. But if they insist on shaking hands with fascists, are okay with throwing minorities under the bus, or think standing up for due process is a distraction, they deserve to be left behind.
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I wish I could. We truly live in the stupidest timeline. Regardless, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but they are a convenience of war. We will settle our differences later. The ally of my enemy will be dealt with.
this is what happens when you have a first past the post system instead of proportional representation. progressives can't go make their own party and realistically expect to achieve anything. so they have to share the party withnthe likes of newsom...
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I would rather he take off the mask now instead of working hard to help him win the primary and discovering he was gonna stab us in the back.
Welcome I'm Tommy veitor... sounds so stupid
Kristol has been moving in this direction for a while. Brooks is just opportunistic. I’ll gladly take it because we need it but he knows which way the wind is blowing.
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Nah, Brooks has always been a lil unpredictable with how he applies his principles Remember when he advocated for gay marriage because he thought Republicans emphasized marriage as the foundation of the family unit?
I actually think Brooks wasn't entirely off-base about that. There is such a thing as queer-inclusive conservatism that stresses monogamous couples in general as the foundations of families. It's not obvious because we don't think of this position as conservative, but it definitely can be.
The other issue is that “his principle” are hot garbage.
Totally! Brooks is such a wiener.
David Brooks has said a lot of very stupid things, but I can't really remember him saying evil things.
Vichy fuckers gonna Vichy, I guess.
He (Newsom) has jumped the shark. So has Whitmer with her oval office photo.A real Dukakis-in-the-tank moment.
Brooks and Kristol have had 40+ years of working with, associating with, helping, and at times encouraging this strain of fascism in their party, all the while thinking they could control it. They know the danger in a way that normal dems don't.
We must get rid of the DINOs in the party
Can't make sense of any of it, but abolishing ICE, TSA, Patriot Act, and breaking apart DHS ain't bad ideas.
Ok I want documentation of the first two
Sorry -Californian
Once people realized that this is a genuine regime, their real roles clicked into place.
Some people understand the assignment. Some don't. In times of trouble, we see who rises to the fight and who flees from it.
I half expected a couple, at least a couple, libertarians to be outspoken about this. I know I know expecting good from right wingers but, statistically someone should be expected to be sincere. A lot walked out when the mises caucas took over the LP. But I haven't heard from any of them.
I used to be one, kinda. Drifted left and down over time. Maybe my memory is fuzzy but they all seemed real then. I get it, they got infiltrated. And that was long enough ago for the shit to take hold. But it still surprises me.
Liberals were always complicit?
I hope Newsom promises GOP hesitants protection from Trump’s threats.
Crazy pills in the water. What else?
Gavin Newsom’s first move of the 2028 campaign was to talk to Charlie Kirk and throw trans people under the bus. He’s not an option any longer nationally, might as well tune him out.
That’s for sure. I loved how he stood up to Trump during the LA fires 🔥 🔥. But after having Kirk on I’ve written him off.
The problem is middle Americans are comfortable with that approach. They're the same people who focused on cost of living issues, not democracy. They didn't understand the assignment, and still don't.
Then maybe there should be literally any genuine attempt at all to shift the discourse to the real issues, instead of platforming monsters like Charlie Kirk. How do you expect the average person to NOT be comfortable with it when BOTH major parties don't shut the fuck up about it?
We don't agree on the "real issues." What do you the the top three are?
The Antichrist is here....
Democrats have never been on our side
I have always thought of Dems as more reasonable Death Star commanders, who realized a fully functional Death Star should allow females and gays as Storm Troopers, and well paid support staff, because it made for a more fully functional operation. But any US president is a Death Star commander.
Garcia looks like he's just lived decades. Fucking awful
Sure does, but he's alive. His wife and kids can now breathe a little easier. There's still a shred of hope they'll get him back. That said we need to get all of the men sent there unlawfully back here. But this isn't nothing. As long as Kilmar is sucking air the truth can be known.
Newsom is the Dems still under the delusion that reaching across the aisle will save them. Van Hollen has at least thought about who he wants to be at the end of all things and has acted accordingly. Don't know much about his record but he tried to do right by a constituent, mad respect for that.
[ezra klein voice] perhaps there a bit of nuance here we’re missing.
I am also a very different person than I was in 2004. Bill Kristol has my back, I'll take him.
Newsom was quoted describing Kilmar's illegal deportation a "distraction" from the real issue: holding Trump accountable for the effect of his tariffs on the markets. I'm autistic and even I know how to read the room better than that.
I’m not gonna lie…. Autistic people are typically better at reading the room than NT’s.
We have our moments too. But I’m talking about the hyper empathy.
idk, I really have trouble with understanding context and nonverbal communication. If the vibes are obvious or someone has spelled them out for me, then my hyper empathy kicks in. That's just my 'tism, so I buy others like you could be pretty sensitive to the vibes.
Oh, I agree like it’s not black-and-white. That’s what I was trying to say.
He and Kimberly Guilfoyle truly deserved one another...
Power corrupts? Absolute power corrupts absolutely?
I saw Newsom discuss this on Bill Maher's show. It seems his basic strategy is to use common sense to bridge the gap. I'm not sure it will work, though. Most of those people he's trying to reach have very little common sense.
"Common sense" is just a thought-terminating dog whistle for enabling the propagation of fascist values.
"Fascist values?" Newsom? He's about as "fascist" as Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
His being a fascist or not has little relevance on the effect of what he's trying to do. The man is trying to sanitize anti-trans positions, trying to convince people that the fascist reactionaries have a fair point (they don't) so he can ride to power as some sort of peacemaker.
OR is he speaking the other side's language to win an office where he can effect real change? I think it's called, "Politics?"
Plain language and plain concepts are two different things, as are intent and result.
Correct. But intent and result can be hard to define early in a process. I grew up in CA and followed Newsom's career for half my life. I don't believe he's one of those "what's in it for me politicians." Within CA politics, he has always tried to do what's right for CA and its voters.
Centrists are bad. They have no principles. They’re essentially con artists. Liberals and conservatives (in theory) have principles. Fascists don’t.
Not true! Centrists some times see that balancing important needs, values is difficult, but necessary. Example: balancing fiscal responsibility while supporting a hardy social safety net.
Lmao, and yet despite your claim that centrists see/understand that, they repeatedly chose to go all in with the fascists to achieve neither. Almost like you’re just lying to defend the con artists known as centrists
What centrists are supporting fascists? Name one.
Klobuchar, and every Dem that decide to confirm any every fascist they could rather than NOT doing that, for example. “But they couldn’t have prevented the conformation” I don’t give a shit. Doesn’t give them the green light to support fascists.
All the Democrats who are refusing to be obstructionist but instead allowing through all the shit in the name of "bipartisanship".
I thought most have changed tactics by now. I mostly follow my Democratic Rep Raskin and Senators Van Hollen and Alsobrooks and they have been fighting, although Alsobrooks is still a little green. ACO, Bernie, Warren, Murphy, Crockett and Stansbury have been fighting.
John Fetterman and Gavin Newsom, for example.
Ok, Fetterman, for sure. I agree there. Newsom is trying to see if he can get elected 2028 … not saying I like his approach. I tend to like righteous sincerity, rather than the slick political animal approach. But my preferences don’t often win, sadly … so?
Newsom is doing podcasts with fascists.
Yeah, I think he is trying to get some political clout with their followers from them … it’s weird.
That's a typical centrist Barnum statement. If they held those views as principles, they would be up in arms against what Trump is doing and protesting loudly.
I think it's funny and telling how the people who say things like this are always focused on the social safety net and not military spending
Gavin Newsome is the slick corporate psycho who learnt just enough virtue signalling to get by.
People have different values. Values can change. Or Values stay the same and the situations change. Or situations can change values. Kristol - He's Jewish 'First they came for..." Brooks - Wants stability. Hollen - Caring for his citizen. Newsom - wants power, needs right wing votes.
Newsome will always bow to power. The others are slightly more independent thinkers, but they will stab you in the back. I applaud Brooks, Holland, and Kristol for these positions, but a broken clock is right twice a day. Why do they still support slaughtering children?
Bill and Dave obviously believed in "something" at some point while Newsom believed in nothing at no point.
Yeah If your starting point of view is "America is a great nation and should lead." than everything Trump is doing right now would be anathema to you. It's a weird moment because "America can be better" Is something both socialists and traditional conservatives should be able to agree on right now.
To paraphrase Spider Jerusalem: The only thing Newspm believes is that he should be ruling us.
Same as Eric Adams... just said whatever he thought would win the office he wanted.
To be fair, Adams clearly does believe in some things, like crystals, curses and witchcraft.
I'm expecting to be his waiter in my next life since he keeps inexplicably mentioning THAT. 😂
Don’t elect some one like that… it goes badly wrong. Love from the UK
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I think Bill really believed all that spreading democracy neocon stuff and is now realizing that most of his old neocon buddies were more in it for the bloodshed than the principle.
some people think neoliberal empire is just business as usual and try not to think about the contradictions & harm, and others reflect its evil values at their core. Newsom the latter. sociopaths shaped this system
pls someone list those fascist guests
super easy to look up. charlie kirk and steve bannon
Big tent
Buttigieg and Newsom are trying to set themselves up for corporate Democrat centrist Presidential runs, and it isn't going to work. They're going to kneecap AOC if she even runs, and they're going to lose. I might not even vote for them next time. I might just vote straight ticket Socialist instead.
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In a true and severe crisis such as the one we are in it is not unusual for people to be unable to stay the course for what is right. All kinds of stupid behaviors emerge such as spaceship stunts and dangerous podcasts. He is deflecting his cowardice by trying to look useful. I never trusted him.
Sure: with very few exceptions the republicans and democrats are the same sociopath, the same rapist, the same criminal, the same racist. The dems lie about their vice, the republicans wallow in it like pigs in shit.
Gavin destroyed whatever chance he had for my support with his fake little interviews with those little Nazi twats. Have no interest in listening to what they have to say, or for that matter, not anymore .
It's a realignment between people who are in it for the money and fame and those who actually care about other people.
I had honestly thought I could support Newsom if he ran for prez. He has now blown that chance for many of us
It's almost as if ideology and courage are two different things
Newsome has calculated that he can’t beat AOC on the left, or Harris in the center, so he’s gone fascist adjacent.
"fascist adjacent": that about sums it up. "Quisling" works, too.
Easy. Liberal institutionalism can see what's happening because it's Constitutionalist. Any kind of populism just sees it as "expected chaos" if not actively "creative destruction".
And environmentalists, present company included, are protesting electric cars. 😵💫
Supports the “not blue vs red but action vs compromise” theory
people show who they really are in times of crisis billy kristol was a good person when you polish his rough exterior, i s'pose, while newsom was a turd clothed in silk
Newsom and the state is suing tRump for his illegal tariffs. So there is that.
Yeah, but he’s making Harris‘s mistake I think. Cozying up to the fash don’t make the fash sympathetic to progressives. It just makes them feel validated for being fash. “See, even these liberals eventually have to agree we’re right!”
Bill Kristol standing up for trans people? Abolish ICE? David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto?? … yeah, okay, a W is a W. I mean, my brain hurts now, but fuck it. I guess I agree with Bill Kristol. … wow that’s so weird to type.
I’ve been agreeing w/ Bill Kristol for a while now. You probably have too, but you may not have been following his evolution closely enough to realize it.
In that case I'm not agreeing with him, he's agreeing with me.
That formulation is DING!
I haven’t followed him at all for a long time, honestly; but I’m very happy to hear that he’s been evolving into someone with better takes. That’s fantastic news.
It's the ones STILL giving an inch to Republicans. We can only assume anyone still caving is simply on their side now.
Newsome has always been a Wall Street Dem. Lip service to social causes while cozying to the rich.
We're finding out who people really are
I think Kristol and Brooks want to get out in front of when events boil over and they don't want to get washed away in the red terror. Newsome is happy to collaborate
After three combat deployments, I can tell you some of the best garrison troops fall apart when deployed and many of the troublemakers and “misfits” rise to the occasion. Until you’re in that environment, you can’t predict how people will perform. Crisis reveals us. Useful to know.
Wait David Brooks is going… what?
