I hate how stupid my fucking country is.
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"Biden failed. This we can agree on." "but.... But, maybe Newsom!"
I also fucking hate it here.
It's the same people who then say Clinton and Harris only lost because they're women
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The DNC has found their new milquetoast Neoliberal!
Yayyyy
No. He should do what he can to push out and fight against this current regime, but nobody likes him or wants him as a president. Nobody.
You've got to remember that you and I are not the average Democratic primary voter. Clearly there are plenty of Democrats who think this is a good idea.
NOBODY.
...yeah I know just let me have something
I wish I could man but we're in a Steelers Wheel situation where there are .ml clowns to the left of us and Nazis to the right and here we are stuck in the middle of neoliberals.
You should read the article. In the pole referenced Newsom is in 6th place. He got a higher than expected percentage of the poling which the author has blown up here with their deceptive clickbaity headline. Possibly in an effort to make people think that Newsom is the favorite.
Not that I'd be really happy to vote for the actual favorite in the pole which is Kamala Harris. Though I would absolutely vote for her over Newsom any day of the week.
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Fuck this guy. Fuck him. He's a piece of shit that's desperate to be the next president because he's seen how low the bar is.
I'm a Californian, and I know we can do better. Demand better, America.
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This fuckin guy has been moving right for the last several years. This is the same strategy that lost the Democrats the last election, and it will lose them the next one.
I don't think so. A white centrist man beat Trump in 2020. That's all the qualification it takes apparently which is handy because that's all Newsom has to offer but I can see him coming out on top.
At some point you people are going to have to accept the fact that there were extenuating circumstances in 2020. And without those Trump would have been a consecutive two-term president.
If the Democrats shove Newsom down our throats we'll have another GOP president following Trump.
Absolutely. It drives me fucking crazy every time I hear the Democrats lament that they lost because they couldn't get their message through to the people. Fuckers, that's absolutely ass-backwards. We're trying to get our message through to you and time and time again, you pretend not to hear us. Is it any wonder at all?
Biden won in 2020 on a "not Trump" platform. He then proceeded to do fuck-all for working people, and fuck-all to prevent another Trump term. Dems figured they could skate by with the same type of campaign again, and they were wrong.
Since when has that stopped them?
Never, and it won't next time either. They'll keep blaming "purists" for not overlooking genocide or something.
He has always been on the right
You're probably right. I just watched as he wasted no time implementing the Supreme Court ruling that cities could outlaw homelessness. More recently he's been sitting down with far right media personalities.
What's really sad is if trump was targeting homeless instead of immigrants he'd probably sided with Trump 😭
It would be an opportunity for "bipartisanship".
At this point, it's tantamount to a name ID poll.
He's nothing if not a political opportunist. Really hoping a better candidate starts gaining traction though.
We really are in the idiocracy timeline.
Politicians are picked on their staffer’s ai meme game
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Eww no
While I know this is nothing more than name recognition at this point, still just ugh...
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Ughhhhhh
Because every candidate surging in polls 3 years ahead of the election have ever made it close to winning.
It's kinda sad to just hope that there will still be elections, at that point...
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I don't want to lose him, but Gov Ned Lamont from CT is a pretty good governor. Maybe a little bit more towards the center than some would like but he's done a good job with jobs, taxes and covid
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