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He’s wrong if he’s supporting Newsom
The smallest balls are still the biggest in a room full of eunuchs... The only thing good about Newsom is his PR team's social media campaigns, and sadly that puts him far ahead of everyone else. Literally nothing else makes him worthy of consideration (or even mention). Dems have gone out of their way to be as inept and complicit as possible, and have purged nearly all authenticity from the party. It's a hollow shell for capital interests wrapped in a pride flag and a costume of 'civility.' It's fucking embarrassing that he's as popular as he is right now, but that's the best you can get from 'liberals' who see Bernie and Mamdani as a threat.
You better start finding a better candidate bro before the lesser evil is nominated then.
You can't complain about what is happening around you unless you give a solution.
AOC
It's so funny how people get all up in arms defending shitbag neolibs as if they have no other option when the democratic socialist are literally right there.
People like the guy you responded to are why we keep losing, fucking crabs in a bucket.
Hear hear! I hope she gets to be the next nominate.
This is the stupidest take, give me one reason why? Am I also not allowed to complain about the rising cancer rates without giving a solution for those? I sure as shit better not hear you complain about AI ever again unless you can tell me how to fix it too. And global warming? Better just shut the fuck up about it until you personally have a plan on how to fix that.
All this phrase is is a cudgel to shut up people you don't want to have to address.
Your downvoters are weirdly quiet, almost like they have nothing substantial to reply with
There's MANY better candidates. Problem is the actual good ones would never dream of aligning themselves with either major party. It's why everything needs to be nuked from orbit.
Yes you can complain and should complain, probably louder. Have fun licking boot, people like you are why we got Trump.
Be the change you want to see, complain all you want but all you are doing is setting yourself and the world around you for more complaining.
(Spoilers for disco elysium) You remind me of that disco elysium communist ending, where all the comrades end up wasting their lives complaining about the bourgeoisie without actually doing anything about it, getting drunk every night each taking turns judging which sickly misery inducing rant was the most powerful.
"Be the change you want to see"
All I've seen you do is shut down conversation with bullshit about how neolibs are our only option.
Is that what you want to see?
People on their highhorse bullshit like this is exactly how we wound up with trump.
Real world is the levellers and the diggers and good ol' Oliver Cromwell.
Everyone complaining. Everyone calling for change. King killed. No one had a plan for after.
Systems will only change if there is an environment conducive of that change.
I would argue Obama knows this. Change is incremental.
I am tired of people with your attitude. Holy shit you’re an insufferable group.
Newsom is a transphobe, hates the homeless, supports Israel, and thinks we need to continue Kirk's great work.
That guy, out of 8 billion, is your champion of freedom and democracy? Because his 19 year old intern mocks Trump on social media?
Edit: Go ahead and keep down voting me. I know what I stand for and support. You putting this half-nazi on a pedestal for the most vapid hollow shit is not the moral superiority you think it is. People look at the US and call us fascist inbreds who should be quarantined precisely because vaguely center right posers like Newsom are supposed to be some paragon of American progressivism. Shit is embarassing.
*Citation needed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/gavin-newsom-breaks-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports-00215436
https://lalgbtcenter.org/vanguard/press-releases/statement-governor-newsom-betrays-queer-and-transgender-californians-with-health-budget-cuts-says-los-angeles-lgbt-center/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/newsom-urges-california-cities-and-counties-to-ban-homeless-encampments
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/10/07/governor-newsom-statement-marking-one-year-since-hamas-attack-on-israel/
Nowhere near as hard as you think it is
you rn
Except that sources are good things cause otherwise people can just say whatever shit they want.
Not when it's a deflection from a dogshit argument
No one reads your silly children’s cartoons and memes. Go away.
You're just mad that it represents your unhappy ass.
It's pitiful to try to use sources as a deflection because you made a dogshit point
Enjoy more trump then
The answer isn’t Newsom or Trump. I’d take Warren, despite her age. I’d take AOC.
If newsom wins the primary then you take newsom in the general.
I don't want him to win the primary either but I'm not stupid.
Remember when Biden and the Democrats reversed Trump’s damage by keeping his border restrictions and asylum crackdowns "for now, just until the system’s ready"? upholding several of his fossil fuel leases because "our hands are tied"? dragging their feet on reinstating clean water and emissions rules because the EPA needed more studies? maintaining bloated Pentagon budgets and arms sales while calling it "responsible leadership"? doing nothing to undo Trump’s tax cuts for corporations, but telling working people that the economy is "booming"? forgetting about the Stream Protection Rule, union rights, and the public option once the election was over? and still treating whistleblowers, immigrants, and Palestine like they’re political inconveniences?
The adults will be back in the room with Newsom.
Newsom’s stance against human rights is concerning. Newsom’s sophomoric trolling against Trump is not Presidential. If his campaign did it? Sure. But this is coming from him. I don’t want a man child in office. Newsom is captive to corporations. That’s not what I want for my President.
That last line was sarcastic btw, I completely agree with you. Newsom is a fascist and the DNC doesn't support progressive candidates. America needs a revolution, yesterday.
I’m sorry, but Newsom gives me the same ick as Trump. I would consider third party if Newsom is nominated. That’s how much I don’t want him to be president, and I voted for both Biden and Harris.