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The same guy who had Charlie Kirk on his podcast a little while ago to kiss his ass? Hell no. He’s better than Trump, but a wet pile of dog shit is better than Trump.
Who would you like to see win the Democratic primary?
Mamdani lol, or Colbert
Or AoC
Or even Walz, at least he knew to call a spade a spade and a weirdo a weirdo (until his own party muzzled him).
If we get Newsom it’ll just be more of the same hooray-for-rich-donors-to-hell-with-the-rest-of-you let’s-head-over-and-court-the-far-right bullshit the Democrats have been doing for decades and I’m fucking sick of it. We need a president and congress that sits for the people, not just the people that bribe them.
An AOC/Walz or Walz/AOC ticket would do great as long as the party lets them
Great answers.
You’re the first person to actually answer with something besides ‘anyone else is better then him.’
The big issue isn’t just the Republicans, really; it’s how the Democrat leadership shuts down anyone who isn’t pro-Israel and pro-rich-donor. They’re so old-boys-club that they’re totally out of touch with voters.
And so people see one Nazi-party and one reach-across-the-isle cooperate-with-the-Nazi-party and just… walk away.
I mean, Schumer’s said flat out his only job is making sure the Democrats support Israel. And all the rest of the leadership talks about is how they don’t seem to be getting support… so they should quit supporting trans rights and stuff, and go court republicans.
It’s fucking infuriating. And Newsom is just cut from that same insipid cloth.
What’s infuriating is that people see the two parties and think they can be remotely the same.
I blame the education system and maybe lead in the water lines.
I mean, they’re not, if you actually pay attention to politics. One group are actual racist shithead Nazis, for one thing.
But the other group are apologists for the Nazis, as long as the nazi’s donors give them money too, anyhow. Because they’re rich and white, so who cares about consequences right?
The issue is that looks close enough that people who don’t pay attention to politics (and let’s be real, that’s most people) just… don’t care. We see it, but the news makes sure they don’t, and even in the case of Faux News feeds them an alternate reality narrative.
Democrats are, taken as a party, inadequately good. They do not resist the pressures and incentives around them to pursue the light.
Republicans are, taken as a party, evil. They collect donor money, but they would happily do the oppression of minorities for free. A number of them seem plausibly likely to pay for the privilege, actually.