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Newsom is quite good at this.
aug 17, 2025, 12:01 am • 400 11 • view
aug 17, 2025, 1:21 am • 9 2 • view
You’re kidding me this is not real 😭 😂
aug 17, 2025, 10:29 am • 3 0 • view
It can’t be, can it? I mean I know the man is losing his mind, but he didn’t put that out, did he? That doesn’t even mean anything. 🤨
aug 17, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
he and his team are getting better at playing trump at his own game while the likes of chuck the schmuck are still playing the game the GOP stopped playing years ago
aug 17, 2025, 8:22 am • 2 0 • view
He is a natural liar. Nancy taught him political "ethics" at a young age.
aug 17, 2025, 12:23 am • 1 0 • view
What do you think National Democrats' response should be to what Texas Republicans are doing?
aug 17, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
I think He should earn his votes by making our lives better in Ca. Not stacking the deck for congress. Same goes for Texas.
aug 17, 2025, 12:33 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 1:52 am • 3 0 • view
Is he, or does he seem good because he is literally the ONLY Democrat leader who is doing it AT ALL? Jeffries is a squish and Schumer... is Schumer even alive? Has anybody done a wellness check?
aug 17, 2025, 7:42 pm • 4 1 • view
Truth isn’t that difficult to explain it’s who is listening that matters…for those in a cult well….and what the worthless media parrots to the people
aug 17, 2025, 9:51 am • 2 0 • view
Too bad about the whole transphobia and fascism podcast thing.
aug 17, 2025, 12:09 am • 162 2 • view
Yep those parts fucking suck. We’ll address them when democracy is restored. Right now we fight for democracy. And no, I’m not saying to hang up our LGBTQ flags. And forget about our children’s rights or our grandparents rights. Democracy above all else is now our fight. Be aligned.
aug 17, 2025, 12:20 am • 23 1 • view
100%. It's literally "Anti-LGBTQ and don't get to kick the guy out of office, ever" vs. "Anti-LGBTQ but you can vote him out in 4 years"
aug 17, 2025, 1:32 am • 7 0 • view
I think it's dangerous to treat any expectation of change as a hindrance to progress because those two things are completely antithetical. Absolutely we should support any effort to shut down fascism. But we should always be seeking to improve BECAUSE we are better than MAGAts. 1/3
aug 17, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Rock solid points.
aug 17, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
We can, and should, always be doing both. To always strive to be better, even when our opponents strive to be worse. Solidarity is standing with the oppressed. Not telling the oppressed to tolerate a bit more oppression because asking for human decency isn't something worth doing rn. 2/3
aug 17, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
This doesn't mean screaming matches whenever his name is mentioned or flat-out refusing to prevent fascism on a broader scale. But this is a conversation worth having when he still has plenty of time to take that on board for his campaign. It's an integral part of democracy itself.
aug 17, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck that bullshit. Fix it now. Gavin needs to learn that it is not possible, necessary or acceptable to embrace Christofascists and their bigotry in order to restore democracy. No, we’re not throwing trans folks under the bus.🏳️⚧️What’s next? Will he agree gay marriage is “deeply unfair”?
aug 17, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
No. He won’t. Within this fight I believe he will indeed become more accepting and understand no matter his personal views, politically he must adapt & mature.
aug 17, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
“No. He won’t.” Sorry, he won’t what? What do you mean? I thought you meant “he won’t move away from his recent transphobic remarks.” But perhaps I misunderstood you?
aug 17, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Newsom is not extremist. He was Mayor of SF. Get a grip.
aug 17, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
When did I say (or even imply) he was an extremist? Get some reading glasses.
aug 17, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Political “maturity” does not require cynically embracing bigotry you know is wrong. Unless of course you’re GOP.
aug 17, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Grow up, because what you're doing helps the GOP.
aug 17, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Bingo.
aug 17, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Nonsense. I like what Newsom’s doing right now. His current trolling & message works. Good. I just don’t like his recent transphobic stances. It’s bullshit and I don’t promote Christofascist faux culture wars.So he needs to stop. Grow a fucking spine & say no to Christofascist talking points.
aug 17, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool story, but if you don’t support the good he is doing, you will find out just how much worse it is w an actual dictator for life who will round trans folks up off the street.
aug 17, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
What did he do that you are upset about? I honestly do not know the specifics.
aug 17, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Newsom has a broad, sophisticated understanding of LGBTQ issues and made a deliberate, cynical mis-step trying to find common ground with bigots who’ve for years been engaged in a culture war scapegoating trans children and adults. Next time he needs to just punch them in the face (figuratively).
aug 17, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
He is trying to do something important. He may have made a mistake by interacting w those idiots, but he is trying to change minds. Far too many people voted for DJT because of their of Transphobia. I know some. GN is at least trying to get them back. Newsflash: people have different opinions.
aug 17, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
No one will ever completely align. But you can agree on similar issues that we can work together on.
aug 17, 2025, 12:22 am • 8 0 • view
Well this is the big problem right now. People that are not aligning on one single thing are dividing and fracturing off into little groups because they'll never agree with someone that does not agree with them 100%. This is why we're losing, because we have fractured ourselves.
aug 17, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Dividing and conquering. Classic strategy.
aug 17, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
sorry to intrude but what are y'all referring to? What did I miss?
aug 17, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I'll take him over the authoritarian end-times takeover currently being violently perpetrated on my nearest major city.
aug 17, 2025, 2:17 am • 3 0 • view
Right? This is the same guy who's solution to homelessness is death marches where they have to move camp every three days. This dude has declared war on the homeless and yet for some reason gets a pass. I wish Dems would learn that the enemy of you enemy is often times just another enemy.
aug 17, 2025, 12:16 am • 106 3 • view
Well understood. Unfortunately we are left with few options when forced to choose between red and blue. Show right now all that matters is getting the authoritarians out of power. We can start dealing with things we don’t like once the boots are off our necks.
aug 17, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
Not sure how so became show. Woops
aug 17, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
#Troll, Irrelevant.
aug 17, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
Citation on your assertion about his homeless policy. What I have read doesn’t match up.
aug 17, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view
Not the time please. Right now the US, and the world for that matter has a bigger threat...Trump and MAGA. Hold your criticism of Gavin Newsom for now coz he's on a great mission and other Democrats with guts should join him. Period. Nobody is perfect but some things can't be overlooked.
aug 17, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 18, 2025, 3:27 am • 0 0 • view
I’m sorry but you’re not gonna get a perfect Dem nominee. If Newsom represents the best option to beat Republicans in 2028 then you better believe I’m gonna support him. And this is the line of thinking that ALL Dem supporters need to follow.
aug 17, 2025, 4:27 am • 9 1 • view
There are no perfect candidates. Some, like the Orange Buffoon are just worse than others. We have to find and support the best Democrat we can.
aug 17, 2025, 9:17 am • 3 0 • view
Me too
aug 17, 2025, 4:28 am • 2 0 • view
Me too
aug 17, 2025, 4:28 am • 2 0 • view
Agree. But the real battle we have to fight is against the 3rd party tantrum-pers who will use ANY EXCUSE to fuck over the Dem nominee. Their purity test to declare a "conscience vote" ( which allows them to sleep at night despite their choice being the cause of US deaths under fascist rule)
aug 17, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
my governor is not getting a pass. many of us know he's an asshole. do you want him to stop fighting, & inspiring others to fight>? who but a handful are out there loud & effective>? go offer yourself up for the fight we're losing. at least he's out there fighting.!
aug 17, 2025, 3:02 am • 4 1 • view
Purists lost us 2024. Fuck purists. Dems have big house
aug 20, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
How so? The numbers simply don't back that up. 2024 has one of the highest voter turnouts ever. Stop blaming a tiny majority when literally 60% of yt dudes voted. Those who voted for the 🤡 are the problem not the ones who said "can we have no genocide maybe?" DNC wants the GOP, good for fundraising
aug 21, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
Right now you’re the enemy.
aug 17, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Then continue to support MAGA.
aug 17, 2025, 2:51 am • 4 0 • view
To be fair the California government has been pushing hard on the housing problem, much to the chagrin of do-nothing city governments. But that's a really slow "solution to homelessness", so yeah, the death march isn't a great short-term solution.
aug 17, 2025, 12:25 am • 5 0 • view
Triangulation gives a certain caste of liberal a hardon. They -like- the homeless-bashing. Not on its merits, but its optics. They -like- the refusal to be principled, and prefer candidates and leaders who will dump their principles at the slightest political inconvenience. To them, it’s a strength
aug 17, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump. Eye on the ball, friend.
aug 17, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Serious concerns you mention. But we have far more serious threats facing us right now!!! LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE BUDDY!!
aug 17, 2025, 9:46 am • 0 0 • view
And that type of thinking is why the Democrats lost the 2024 election and why we lost the Senate and why we lost the House. People like you think there is an ideal Progressive choice.
aug 17, 2025, 12:31 am • 279 8 • view
Exactly! Democrats are always held to some unattainable standard of perfection, while Republicans aren't. ENOUGH ALREADY! This is why Harris lost and Trump won. STOP REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
aug 17, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 0 • view
blaming random users on twitter for losing an election is so pathetic. I think you're confused so let me explain: you win elections by winning them, not whining about them.
aug 18, 2025, 1:45 am • 1 0 • view
"Thinking that my cult can do better than pushing soulless scumfucks is why we keep losing."
aug 18, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Whether or not there is an ideal choice, you're a moron if you think Newsome is a good choice. Your thinking is why Dems lose. You assume that good enough for you is good enough for anyone else, and treat people warning you of a candidate's obviously fatal flaws early on as disloyalty.
aug 17, 2025, 2:33 pm • 4 0 • view
You lost because the baseline was to stop a genocide.Keep demanding nothing keep getting blue fascists.
aug 18, 2025, 12:58 am • 4 0 • view
yeah, look at those Republicans they welcome anyone no matter what he said or did as long as he’s swinging a white dick
aug 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
This. It is maddening how profoundly tunnel-visioned so many supposedly woke intelligent people are. I utterly give up. Our education system has failed us repeatedly and this utter stupidity is the result.
aug 17, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Our education system has failed us, people are demanding the lowest moral standards possible of my masters, which is stupid for some reason.
aug 18, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
The primary election is in 3 years. There is plenty of time to find a candidate who isn’t already compromising to the far right and who believes in a basic standard of human rights. You already give up? Good, get out of the way, then.
aug 18, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah we just read history and know that abandoning the civil rights of minorities isn’t actually politically expedient. The ONLY way to beat fascism is coalition. Harris lost because she abandoned Arab/left voters in favor of chasing phantom MAGA votes. Newsom will lose too. Primary someone better
aug 17, 2025, 4:28 pm • 3 0 • view
I 100% support Newsom’s efforts here, fighting MAGA. He’s the fighter we need. But he ain’t the president we need. We need someone who unites everyone who isn’t MAGA, not someone who platforms Nazis like Newsom did with Bannon and Kirk in order to chase Nazi votes. Read about Weimar.
aug 17, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 0 • view
And why we lost in 2016 to begin this whole sad and destructive chapter. The purists and single-issue voters never learn. How are those progressive goals faring?
aug 17, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
"I think its bad that Newsom wants to murder homeless people" You, for some reason: "these progressive purists are going too far!"
aug 17, 2025, 4:36 pm • 2 0 • view
For some reason? I was responding to @dj-cj.bsky.social. We lived through 2016 and every iteration since of then of the perfect being the enemy of the good and look where it’s gotten us. I support those vocally fighting fascism, which is currently killing millions worldwide.
aug 17, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Personally I don't think I'm requiring perfection of my representatives if I say that it is bad that they murder homeless people
aug 18, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
☝️ This, this, this and this ☝️ Like the Bernie supporters who stayed home because "Hillary was mean to him". Purity tests lose elections. (and I love Bernie and believe wholeheartedly in his vision for a just, progressive society)
aug 17, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 0 • view
"Purity tests lose elections." You should get your cult to stop purity testing people's loyalty and just have them run someone who isn't a monster that people actually want to vote for
aug 18, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh shut the fuck up. Democrats lost because they fucking suck and don’t achieve shit.
aug 17, 2025, 2:57 am • 6 0 • view
I was on your side until I watched these establishment morons try to promote and rehab Chris Cuomo a fucking sex pest. You blue maga fucks are just as bad as maga.
aug 17, 2025, 2:58 am • 2 0 • view
It really is not
aug 17, 2025, 1:19 am • 7 0 • view
The Democrats lost the 2024 election because Musk rigged the voting machines. Trump said it at a rally. Try again.
aug 17, 2025, 11:00 am • 0 0 • view
You are the reason Dems lost the 2024 election and why you continue to lose elections to republicans. Because you insist on nominating horrific and bigoted candidates and then whine when minorities who are harmed by said candidates don’t come out to vote for them. Do better.
aug 17, 2025, 1:48 am • 15 0 • view
Thats the problem with the MAGA Repubs and the Democratic parties; either side MUST ALWAYS vote for some 1 within their own party. Even if they are the worst thing to vote for
aug 17, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
You're half right. Harris wasn't horrific or bigoted. The whines were about "but Gaza". It's because too many Americans are selfish entitled morons who think if someone once said something they disagree with then they refuse to vote for that person even if they are clearly the wiser choice.
aug 17, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Fucking selfish entitled morons thinking Palestinians aren't subhuman and okay to sacrifice to your genocider.
aug 18, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I voted for Harris, but she lost. It would be truly insane to repeat this failure, by abandoning MORE voters and chasing phantom MAGA defectors. Newsom can’t win without the votes of the people he’s betraying. Coalition is the only way out, not abandoning each demographic in turn. We win together
aug 17, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 0 • view
There is nothing “wise” about voting for Newsom. And there is nothing selfish, entitled or moronic about not wanting to vote for a bigot.
aug 17, 2025, 2:42 pm • 6 0 • view
Right! The left tends to completely cancel anyone with even a single opinion they dont agree. This isnt a zero sum game and Newsom is the only one truly fighting back against Trump.
aug 17, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
Can't a guy brutalize homeless people and agree with nazis about a minority without those hysterical leftists cancelling him?
aug 18, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Your solutions to complex problems are simplistic and always involve taxing the wealthy as the ultimate solution that will solve everything which can't be the catch-all solution. Newsome isn't perfect, he's made mistakes, but he's the only one pushing a viable plan so cut him some slack.
aug 17, 2025, 12:31 am • 237 11 • view
Taxing the rich to pay for housing works a hell of a lot better as a solution to homelessness than subjecting the unhoused to state violence, what in the fuck are you saying?
aug 17, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Homelessness is not a simple solution. Many choose to live outside of the system due to mental health issues and/or drug addiction. I cut slack here..
aug 17, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the always and forever argument about half-loaves and blue no matter who. You feel brave and stern parroting it. A grown up. The issue has never been purity. I am absolutely ok if Newsom’s views don’t align fully or even mostly with mine.
aug 17, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
What I’m not ok with, is political hacks. People who abandon politically inconvenient positions and then later repudiate them. People who prevaricate about their beliefs in order to keep votes. And the reason I’m not ok with it, is not morality or purity. It’s because voters despise inauthenticity
aug 17, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Time and again we elect leaders who we -know- are pretending to believe something they don’t in order to shore up political support. And that kind of politics works well on the small stage, sure. But in the big leagues it has failed, time and time again. Voters smell it, and are disgusted by it
aug 17, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree with this! He’s made some poor choices, but I’ll forgive him if he can save America.
aug 17, 2025, 12:43 am • 162 6 • view
And at least his name isn’t on every page of the Epstein Files.
aug 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
How nice of you to forgive him on behalf of trans people and homeless people that he's harmed.
aug 17, 2025, 12:50 pm • 8 0 • view
C’on now. Not what I meant. Clearly.
aug 17, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
He's not made poor choices, he's literally full on pro AI deregulation which includes companies like Palantir that have explicit missions to hurt humans using AI.
aug 17, 2025, 1:38 am • 9 0 • view
No one one person can save this country.
aug 17, 2025, 9:42 am • 2 0 • view
No, but damn we need a leader
aug 17, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
Then be a leader.
aug 17, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
What! Of the Dems ?
aug 17, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
He hasn't said that only he can save America, that was lügentrump. He's said we have to do this together. But one person can stir up and ignite the fire in us to fight back. That's #MyGovernorNewsom Demon trump fanned the ember hatred & racism in some to full flame to win.
aug 17, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
I didn't say or infer that he (Newsom) said it.
aug 17, 2025, 10:26 am • 1 0 • view
This right here. It takes community, literally from the ground up just like Bernie said, starting it locally and working your way up all through each state. We are so complacent that we only dream of one *perfect* person to pick up the banner and do all of the fucking work for us.
aug 17, 2025, 7:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Right. And the "one perfect person" is always a lie.
aug 18, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
Save us? From ourselves. This is because we didnt execute enough confederates and then we let their granddaughters build statues to them. America has always had this problem. Newsom won't fix a damn thing.
aug 17, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Nicely put.
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 am • 33 1 • view
"I'll forgive the harms he's done to other people so long as my comfort will be preserved"
aug 18, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
If?
aug 17, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not your rights he’ll trample on so you don’t care. You don’t give a shit about trans rights. That’s why you’re willing to give him slack. You guys didn’t care about Palestinian lives either. This is why you lose.
aug 17, 2025, 2:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Typical arrogant centrist white dude take. “Your solutions are simplistic,” he says, as he pushes a simplistic solution himself: vote for any Dem running against Trump. That already happened with Biden, who was a huge failure and cared more about aiding genocide than aiding people in the US.
aug 17, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
“Cut him some slack” is a statement reserved for people who don’t go after trans people, who don’t forcibly displace those living in extreme poverty, who don’t kick people off Medí-Cal, who don’t kill universal healthcare while having a supermajority in the legislature. Newsome is a fucking tool.
aug 17, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree we have to follow Newsome for now as he’s the only motherfucker doing anything. Even though he has a shitty past, even at the beginning of this presidency in those stupid podcasts.
aug 17, 2025, 4:39 am • 1 0 • view
JB Pritzker is right fucking there dude.
aug 17, 2025, 5:10 am • 1 0 • view
What's the problem with taxing the wealthy again?
aug 17, 2025, 1:18 am • 6 0 • view
I don't see any problem with it at all. We should be doing it. They should be taxed as fairly as we are. They should have all of their loopholes closed. And yeah they're the same loopholes that I take advantage of when I can. Close them. But it is not a single solution that will fix our problems.
aug 17, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It will fix most of them. Wages and housing are next.
aug 17, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
How are basic human rights for trans people a “complex problem”? And how is declaring war on homeless people a “viable plan”?
aug 17, 2025, 1:50 am • 15 1 • view
🎯💯
aug 17, 2025, 1:28 am • 0 0 • view
Nope.
aug 18, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
No, the reason the democrats keep losing is because corporate shills keep pushing policies that are unpopular with the American people. The American people rejected them. I am sick and tired of seeing people blame the progressives when they hold zero power and have fielded no presidential candidates
aug 17, 2025, 12:08 pm • 9 1 • view
The people you are defending lost in 2016, they lost in 2024, and if it weren’t for covid, they would have lost in 2020. They hold all of the power in the party, which means that they bear all of the responsibility for failure. Not the handful of progressive representatives.
aug 17, 2025, 12:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Your candidates keeps losing, and you keep blaming progressives. The American people don’t like them. They didn’t like hillary, they didn’t like biden, they didn’t like biden, and frankly, they don’t like gavin newsom. Biden only won because people rejected trump due to covid failures.
aug 17, 2025, 12:14 pm • 5 0 • view
An obvious failure Trump has been at many levels. Economically _and socially. He doesn't give a damn who he kills off. COVID and cuts to healthcare!
aug 17, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
They didn't like Hillary because the GOP spent 30 years dragging her through the mud.. She was stained from the get-go. I've seen more people like Biden than like anybody, even people that didn't like Obama liked Biden.
aug 17, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The data begs to differ. He had to pull out specifically because of how badly he was polling after what can only be described as the worst debate performance in American history. Nobody was energized to vote for Biden. Not even the democrats, who should have been locked in at that point.
aug 18, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
That's where I'm at with him. No, he's FAR from perfect. But he's so much better than what we have NOW...
aug 17, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesn't have a viable plan other than "make me president or else"
aug 18, 2025, 2:32 am • 2 0 • view
Tax rich is a fair economic solution. Not a ALL fairness solution. You can have a racist white president that taxes rich. Of course nothing is perfect. Tldr of your idea is: devil president is better than a devil lord. USA kinda suck huh.🤣 dont even a 'kind' candidate.
aug 17, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Simplistic or not, taxing the wealthy would do much, housing and energy costs getting addressed would also do much.
aug 17, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
There is an ideal choice that doesn't include someone that simps for tech bros, doesn't believe in the rights of some citizens, and has failed black people in his state, consistently, giving Newsom any credit is saying you're absolutely OKAY with people being discriminated against too. Stop playing.
aug 17, 2025, 1:37 am • 10 0 • view
Who exactly? No one else seems to actually stand up to trump.
aug 17, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
Preferably not a guy getting paid by the same tech bros.
aug 17, 2025, 2:06 am • 5 0 • view
Literally anyone else that is more aligned with working class people and not specifically aligned with silicon valley.
aug 17, 2025, 2:07 am • 5 0 • view
Who though? I dont see anyone else standing up to trump in remotely the same fashion. Biden was backed by the establishment but was infinitely better than Trump.
aug 17, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
THE SAME SUPER VILLAINS ARE BEHIND BOTH OF THOSE PEOPLE'S SUCCESS WHAT IS NOT REGISTERING
aug 17, 2025, 4:22 am • 2 0 • view
This isn't rocket science, he's literally back by some of the same would-be oligarchs.
aug 17, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
There are so many people protesting every day, standing up to Trump, all organized by thousands across the country and you can only think of one white man with a slick haircut and a paid-for smile? One who spent the better part of this year pandering to the man you say he’s “standing up” to now?
aug 17, 2025, 8:13 am • 1 0 • view
Well, The floor is wide open, Newsom is the only one legitimately standing up and fighting back. The entire democrat party has been sitting on their hands. If there was someone, anyone else really doing remotely the same thing I'd be happy to support them but for now its Gawsom or no one.
aug 17, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
What a shit situation for our country to be in, you say legitimately standing up and fighting back and yet he's allowing one of the very threats to democracy in ( it is the AI tech bros / favoritism in the elite class). you say that other Dems aren't doing anything, that's just not true either.
aug 17, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Plenty of progressive Dems are being overlooked, I don't have to do the work for you, and GN is the corporate/establishment pick of the 'sit-on-hands' crowd, up to you how you want to process and parse that info, but he's not 'the one' he isn't Neo, and he is questionable and not beyond reproach.
aug 17, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I've stumbled into a weird part of BlueSky apparently. This leftists caused Trump narrative is philosophically confused. Not white men? Not blue corporate politics? It was leftists. Are they sure about that? Leftists what, voted Trump more than Kamala or something? God.
aug 17, 2025, 2:49 am • 2 0 • view
Democracy is on the line. Purity isn't a luxury. Newsom gets the heat but most Democrats, including governors, are nowhere to be seen as Trump tries to seize autocratic powers!
aug 17, 2025, 1:09 am • 2 0 • view
Exciting candidates win elections. Mediocre incumbents lose them. Newsom is a great attack dog, but mediocre on policy and results. He won't fix enough, he won't improve enough, and idiots will try out the fascists again after he serves four years.
aug 18, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
There’s a big difference between an ideal progressive choice and a choice who is even a slight bit progressive. Someone who won’t compromise on civil rights to win an election. We aren’t striving for ideal, but we expect basic principles.
aug 17, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
Mistakes were made for sure. But living in the past isn’t the way.
aug 17, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
Give me a break. We need someone who is pushing back on Trump in a loud way or else we are lost. Who else is there? Buttigieg? I doubt it the guy Clooney likes? Absolutely not. Harris? Please god no. AOC? maybe if she joins with a Newsome. But let's not get bogged down Right now ITS BIGGER THAN THAT
aug 17, 2025, 5:35 am • 1 1 • view
I guess it depends on which enemy is worse
aug 17, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you saying any RepubliCONS are a better choice if Newsom wins the Democratic primary?
aug 17, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
He's saying there are good reasons to hope Newsom doesn't win the primary. You don't have to start compromising your values yet, it's not time for "vote blue no matter who". It's not too late to strive for better.
aug 17, 2025, 12:31 am • 3 0 • view
WTF???? YES. IT IS TOOOOO LATE!!!
aug 17, 2025, 9:42 am • 1 0 • view
I agree but when we do choose we all have to be behind that candidate 100%
aug 20, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
What do you think we should do to help the homeless? I’ve thought about it and I can’t figure out the perfect plan.
aug 17, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Too bad that was a fact finding mission for him, funny how that has disappeared.
aug 17, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
When somebody steps up to fight the greatest enemy of the free world, you support them. We can fight about the other issues later. Failing to do so simply ensures the greater evil will prevail. It is that simple.
aug 17, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Pumped someone else remembers that. We’re down bad, forgetting true colors. Sure, he’s doing good now, but never forget he cleared homeless camps before Trump. He’s an opportunist chasing the presidency. Meanwhile, Beto O’Rourke is the solution we keep ignoring. youtu.be/7RYfnf0LG_o?... .
aug 17, 2025, 5:05 am • 1 0 • view
Watching this purity death spiral is hilarious! Other historical movements have experienced purity spirals but this one is terrific! Please keep that purity spiral in full swing!
aug 17, 2025, 9:11 am • 1 0 • view
It’s not a purity death spiral to point out Newsom is full of shit. I like this New Newsom, but recognize he’s a poll cat who would sell out any values he had if he saw a political advantage in it.
aug 17, 2025, 9:42 am • 2 0 • view
This is BS. He is a mod Dem who is heavily influenced by corporate money. He doesn’t flip flop, he likes his $ and his donors. I hate that about him, but he is also the ONLY mfer stepping up!
aug 17, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep that purity spiral going down the drain!
aug 17, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Truly not a purist, but Newsom is clearly a set of focused grouped beliefs and a haircut. He’s the John Edwards of our time. I think most people see that.
aug 17, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet, nobody else has had the guts to stand up to one of the world’s most notorious criminals who has brainwashed our population. He normalized hate, bigotry & misogyny. Literally nobody else is stepping up. Nobody.
aug 18, 2025, 5:10 am • 0 0 • view
Newsom serves the world's most notorious criminal organization, the World Economic Forum. WEF controls Main Stream Media and its propaganda machine. Trump does NOT control MSM and lacks sufficient media reach for effective brainwashing. Those claiming Trump brainwashed the public are projecting.
aug 18, 2025, 7:26 am • 0 0 • view
This is 100% incorrect. Seek help.
aug 18, 2025, 9:11 am • 1 0 • view
I won't share my honest opinion of Newsom as it would get my account shutdown. Suffice it to say that he's a member in good standing who serves the World Economic Forum, a notorious terrorist organization.
aug 17, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a lovely purity death spiral. Keep up the good work.
aug 17, 2025, 9:47 am • 2 0 • view
If he's transphobic, why did he take Chino School District to court for trying to out trans kids to their parents? Then signed a law against it?
aug 17, 2025, 4:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Too bad you don’t look at his legislative record to see where he truly stands.
aug 17, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Admittedly, I missed the anti-trans & anti-homeless things. But he WAS mayor of San Francisco, one of the most LGBTQ cities in the world & full of homeless people. So he’s not uninformed. (Unlike those chickenshit members of Congress too afraid to step outside their offices cause, big scary city.)
aug 17, 2025, 1:23 am • 9 1 • view
Yes he’s informed and knew exactly what he was doing. Which makes it worse and makes me trust him less. He knows better. His little stunt didn’t give him the momentum he was after, but did a lot of harm to trans and and LGBTQ people. He needs to backtrack fully from his transphobic comments.🏳️⚧️
aug 17, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
do you know what he did with Chino School District when they tried to out trans students to their parents?
aug 17, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes 🙌🏽 it’s wonderful what he did - banned CAschool districts from notifying parents of their child's gender identification change. Right on! So why legitimise attitudes & efforts to keep those same children from playing sports in school? It doesn’t make sense. 🤷🏽♀️
aug 17, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree he is not without issues. Totally disgusted by these stands but he has governed CA well during trying times. Right now he has the charisma to unite Americans against a dictator. Support the resistance first. US must keep CA or collapse.
aug 17, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t be single issue voters right now. It’s not the time.
aug 17, 2025, 6:52 am • 6 0 • view
Calling on politicians to rethink or reconsider their political positions on issues is an integral part of democracy. Criticism of an issue on its own is not "single issue voting". No one said not to vote for this reason, or that people should abstain entirely. Criticism is not opposition.
aug 17, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Whatever. Quit bitching.
aug 17, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
You should probably try to educate yourself a little bit. That’s not exactly what it was but you do you.
aug 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
Nope. Newsom is good people.
aug 17, 2025, 5:44 am • 3 0 • view
Nope, but bad people can incidentally do good things sometimes.
aug 17, 2025, 5:52 am • 2 0 • view
"This guy ONLY agrees with me 90% of the time... He's a fucking fascist!" The purists will nitpick Newsom to death long before trmph ever gets gets hands on him.
aug 17, 2025, 2:12 am • 12 0 • view
As Bill Clinton once said, “Democrats want to fall in love. Republicans just fall in line.” Well, it’s high time that Democrats fall in line.
aug 17, 2025, 4:35 am • 6 0 • view
Why tf should democrats behave like republicans? Non-cons tend to be smarter and more discerning, and therefore have higher standards and more diversity among them. That's exactly what makes Ds better than Rs. Why would we throw that away instead of just working to improve that diversity?
aug 17, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for telling me that you don’t understand Clinton’s post. You also obviously don’t understand the assignment. If Dems want to win again then they need to start behaving like Republicans when it comes to supporting their candidates on the ballots.
aug 17, 2025, 2:35 pm • 7 0 • view
We don’t need a goddamn hero, we need tools. Gavin is a fucking tool, and in this particular instance he’s useful. Stop looking for heroes; we have literal Gestapo on the street.
aug 17, 2025, 12:34 am • 36 3 • view
Exactly, Need someone to show the Democrats and Progressives how to stand up to Trump!
aug 17, 2025, 12:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Not looking for a hero, I’m looking for a non-bigot. It’s not hard. Don’t embrace Christofascists and their bigotry in the name of restoring democracy, ffs.🤦🏽♀️ No, we’re not throwing trans folks under the bus.🏳️⚧️What’s next? Will he agree gay marriage is “deeply unfair”? He needs to fix his bad take.
aug 17, 2025, 11:56 am • 2 0 • view
I’m not saying I like the guy, I’m just saying let him cook when Orange is on the grill. Frankly, I’d cheer on high cholesterol or a strong gust of wind if it helps topple this regime
aug 17, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
😂 Yep, let him cook. I agree.🫡 And also, he absolutely needs to step away - sooner, not later - from his appallingly stupid, cynical, short-sighted decision to embrace anti-trans bigotry for…clout. Or whatever tf he thought he was doing. He knows better.
aug 17, 2025, 12:53 pm • 2 0 • view
We need the girls, the gays, the theys, but also the hick libs and the pissed off farmers and every kind of New Yorker and Illinois and Minnesota and religious people who say “no ICE at worship services.” We are all America; we aren’t perfect but we know how to be pissed off. Let it happen
aug 17, 2025, 12:43 am • 19 3 • view
Good take. I'm sold. If he wants to burn us all, we should all come for him. We can go back to slap-fighting when we can do it over his rotting corpse.
aug 17, 2025, 1:53 am • 6 1 • view
and the being on the side of tech bros and dangerous technology being used and not regulated thing, you know like Palantir,OpenAI, and other 'friendly' ai systems
aug 17, 2025, 1:35 am • 3 0 • view
Look he screaming The Emperor isn't wearing any clothes. And your attacking him. Shit he getting underneath the skin of the Orange shit bag. Roll with it. Hate him later.
aug 17, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
I don’t hate Newsom. And I like his trolling. But he needs to quit it with the transphobia. Period. And NOW. 🤷🏽♀️
aug 17, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
What did he do recently?
aug 17, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Fri, July 18, 2025 🙄 www.yahoo.com/news/gavin-n...
aug 17, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Why the fuck does recently matter? "If someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" maya angelo
aug 17, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I was literally asking for what he said. I wasn’t aware of what it was that upset people. I honestly didn’t hear it.
aug 17, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
He's said trans women aren't women
aug 17, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
He's said they shouldn't be using womans rooms. Badicly he agrees with the right on trans folks
aug 17, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Hate to tell you this but there are much greater pressing issues in this Country right now than Trans rights.. The Constitution The Press and basic civil rights are under attack daily. People are losing their Healthcare, our judicial system is collapsing, people can't afford their meds. Inflation.
aug 17, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I do hate him. Like I hate all transphobes and bi phobes and homophobes
aug 17, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah. Great. But he's the only one throwing punches. You may hate him.And that's your right. Haven't seen single Liberal Democrat throw down on Trump and call him Out to his face. I guess you think more sternly writen letters to the President will work.
aug 17, 2025, 2:02 am • 10 0 • view
Gov Newsom isn't anti-LGBQT! He has merely spoken out against allowing trans-women to compete in women's sports. That's a position that's supported by 2/3s of Americans. Ideological purity re fringe issues isn't going to help Dems win elections. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
aug 17, 2025, 10:43 am • 4 1 • view
He took a transphobic stance, then double-down on it. Based on your stance, both voting rights for Blacks and gay marriage were merely “fringe issues” to be ignored & sorted out “later”. That Pew study also showed that 55% of Dems do NOT agree with discriminating against trans athletes.
aug 17, 2025, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Newsom performed the very first gay marriage in the US. and stood up to Chino Schools for trans kids, this isn't true
aug 17, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Hi Maud. I am aware of his strong LGBTQ record, including standing up for trans kids. It’s very admirable. So why did he stop standing up for them recently, and throw trans athletes under the bus? When you said “this isn’t true?”, to what are you referring? www.yahoo.com/news/gavin-n...
aug 17, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
because he does what he thinks is popular imo
aug 17, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe so. We both know he knows right from wrong, and that’s the leadership I want to see from him. Not that rightwing bigotry.
aug 17, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't love him, just saying he's not really against trans kids. He's too much for big business
aug 17, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh FFS. But Kamala would have won had she just gone on Joe Rogan, Adin Ross and Theo Von, right? The hypocrisy. Credit to Newsom for reaching out to the alpha-male-loneliness-epidemic-manosphere. He’s the only Dem trying and fighting fire with fire.
aug 17, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Damn it’s good to see him fired up.
aug 17, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 0 • view
When you have next to no one in the political opposition shouting out against Trump, even one voice is good... but yes, Newsom speaks well and can get a point over. What he's saying needs to be said and said often.
aug 17, 2025, 8:19 am • 3 0 • view
Newsom all the Way !!
aug 17, 2025, 6:22 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re a very smart politician
aug 17, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, it's refreshing to hear complete sentences.
aug 17, 2025, 12:40 am • 3 0 • view
Contributed. Now this is some action I can support.
aug 17, 2025, 2:15 am • 2 0 • view
HOLY FUCK! Are you related to Sacha Cohen Baron? No? That’s fucked up. WE SUPPORT CALIFORNIA! Fuck the Donald!
aug 17, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 1 • view
This was great work.
aug 17, 2025, 2:24 am • 8 0 • view
putin is trumps idle and is trying to emulate him.
aug 17, 2025, 1:31 am • 3 0 • view
He doesn’t post on @bsky.social I can understand @gavinnewsom.bsky.social It’s not the best app feels too unproductive being not set up very professionally, to do the job properly—sadly most are back at Twitter. It’s all about optical engineering. Hope changers being made @bsk.social to simplify!
aug 17, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s on Substack substack.com/@gavinnewsom...
aug 17, 2025, 8:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I don’t care who is on X/Shitter. I will never go back to that bot infested hellscape.
aug 17, 2025, 9:17 pm • 7 1 • view
💯📌
aug 18, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Newsom seems to be the one voice speaking truth in the wilderness. He needs some company.
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 am • 32 5 • view
His press releases in the style of 47 are getting under Fox News' skin, Yay!
aug 17, 2025, 2:24 am • 15 0 • view
And now Tomi "Fox likes bottle blondes" Lahren is complaining about.
aug 17, 2025, 10:28 am • 3 0 • view
Newsroom’s💙🌊💙🌊
aug 17, 2025, 1:41 am • 4 1 • view
What's to question??!!? Yes! All blue states should redraw now! As for his dumb pod- if he runs in a primary, that's where we push Nobody remember Biden and Harris debate?? They both grew and became THE BEST TEAM EVER
aug 17, 2025, 3:20 am • 16 2 • view
💯 Unfortunately the Women’s League of Voters, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and several Republicans are opposed to the idea.
aug 17, 2025, 5:47 am • 2 0 • view
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s housekeeper, mistress, & babymama Through much of her pregnancy and for the eight years that Mr. Schwarzenegger served as California Governor, the woman continued to work in the Schwarzenegger's Brentwood home www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43083...
aug 17, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe Arnie will just sit this one out. We used to call him the governator.
aug 17, 2025, 9:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Report: America’s Worst Governors www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
aug 17, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 1 • view
💯 I asked Gov Matt Meyer if DE was going to stand in solidarity w CA. Sadly, the reply was no. From listening to what NY Gov Kathy Hochul has been saying, it's doubtful NY is all in, too. Blue states not standing together in this endeavour is a missed opportunity for the Dem Party to save the US.
aug 17, 2025, 8:49 am • 7 1 • view
Hochul seemed in for redraw if needed initially- it too would need a special election to allow redraw but still. Very disappointing. NJ sucks too. Maybe JB can redistrict in Illinois.
aug 17, 2025, 9:44 am • 2 0 • view
In all fairness to NY, their Constitution is more difficult and will take longer to ratify. They have begun the process but it won’t be completed by 2026 (due to rules) but could be ratified before the 2028 elections
aug 18, 2025, 1:14 pm • 4 0 • view
I've listened to Gov Hochul talk in support of redistricting NY by changing the NY Constitution & that NY stands w the Texas Dems who broke quorum.But then I saw her being interviewed about this, & her response was that if TX would just "quit it" then things can "go back to normal." *cue eye roll🙄
aug 18, 2025, 1:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Hate break it to you but redistricting in California is controlled by an independent body. Newsom is just making noise trying to rally support for his Presidential aspirations. Having lived in CA for 50 years, his promises are just hot air. I’m not trying to be argumentative just reality based.
aug 17, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view