How democrats will lose 2028 - run this guy
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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"Favorite".
Only because media keeps calling him that.
Liberals listen the fuck up. You cannot nominate this man. You will lose. If you choose to do this you are choosing to lose. You can't blame the voters you're choosing to lose.
This. Democrats with Newsom might win the election, but four years of Biden brought us Trump 2.0. Four years of Newsom will bring forth anti-Democrat sentiment so strong that it will sweep every demographic Dems have ever been branded as "pandering to".
Gavin Newsom is the kind of politician who spurs the political apathy and resentment that Trump and the Republican Party feed on. Gavin Newsom is the type of Democrat that brought us to the hell of 2025 and beyond.
Presume there will be a Democrat primary. Register for it. Participate in it. No votes for Gruesome Newsom.
At least the Nazi's say they hate you. This slimy fuck will do whatever his consultants say. The only good thing he's ever done was let his social media team be slightly angry with fascists... That shouldn't be the bar, it should be the floor.
What? The man that sucked Charlie Kirk's dick (in person, mind you) in his first podcast episode? Shocked, shocked I say!
Not technically.
Denying an obvious genocide is support for that genocide.
So it's no surprise to see who's demanding fealty in this thread.
These are the same dogs that will blanket shame people for being against Kamala's stance on Gaza. They are not to be trusted.
If newsom ends up being the presidential candidate I will end up voting 3rd party. I no longer care
But people on lemmy will say it's your fault for enabling fascism. :(((
We're already here and I'm gonna be real with you, I don't think newsom is going to dismantle facisism, just use it for his own gain. He's too much like trump.
That's the neoliberals who say that as they proudly stop progressive policies at every avenue and coddle with fascists if too many are elected.
Welp, that’s it. Not voting for Newsom for any reason.
Yeah, but you never were tho.
Whereas he just clinched your support by denying genocide.
These people have no legs to stand on. They say we are taking the moral high ground against what is for the greater good, but I think they need a good look in a mirror.
The UN and every single human rights org: "Israel is committing genocide"
Democrats: "No it's not genocide but I understand why lefties have their feefee's hurt. Is everyone statisfied with my both sides answer?"
God damnit do not run this guy, he is a snake
DNC will ram-rod him through. Then we can call him Gavage Newsom.
Two assholes in a pod
I already wasn't gonna vote for him cause of his stance on homelessness. Don't care if he gets the nomination. Never believed in the "blue no matter who" BS that just props up awful people on the vague notion of "lesser evilism".
If youve gotten to the point of blue no matter what you don't really have a democracy anymore. You have an autocracy with vaguely democratic features.
Vote your conscience in the primary, harm reduction in the general
A centrist cant win, especially in these times. Running a centrist is suicide. You all saw the dem voter base dissolving in the last election. Is that what you want again?
I won't vote for a centrist in the primary but I also won't abstain or vote third party in the general.
You're 100% right. Ignore the bots who want to sabotage Democrats. Yes Newsom isn't perfect but he's 100 times better than Trump. A Democrat like AOC would be maybe 500 times better than Trump. But no matter what after the primary is over I will do everything in my power to advocate for the Democrat presidential candidate and all Democrats on the ballot.
Newsome is sabotaging democrats stop blame shifting
If you nominate someone like Newsom, you will lose the election. It's that simple
Centrists have demonstrated that they're just fine with losing to fascists so long as they don't have to say no to netanyahu.
It's crazy to see how many people seem to still not grasp this.
Instead, they completely lie and say we actually want people like Newsom and aren't just willing to vote for him in the general to stop the literal fascism that has infected the country. After everything that's happening, and they still cannot grasp this. How fucking stupid can you be?
They will sit out again, and then whine and whine while we lose what's left of our Republic.
Stop pretending the primaries are honest.
A rich politician toeing the line?
I'm only shocked because this shit is still considered news. Democrats aren't "leaning" center or right. They are so far from progressive they don't even know what it looks like anymore.
Edit: i really hate auto correct
But remember if you're left of them, you're both an insignificant voting block if they win and the cause for them losing.
WTF Gavin. Yeah, no "technically" it may not be an actual genocide, as Gazans still exist, but my dude, Israel is certainly doing a bang up job of acting like they really want to go all the way and do it.
Fucking hell, this splitting of political hairs and pandering to the morally bankrupt people in AIPAC is disgusting..
Genocide does not require the complete elimination of the targeted people. It also doesn't even involve killing.
A UN Commission has already found that they have and the International Court of Justice has found that the accusation is plausible (the case is still ongoing). Only 10 countries have actively rejected the claim. Newsome isn't technically correct, he's just doing pro-Israel spin.
..he's just doing pro-Israel spin..
Yup. Spin like a fucking top.
Nauseating.
::barf::
Technically an effectively it is a genocide. You should read the real definition of genocide
There are a lot of blue fascists on lemmy that think the same.
Vote in the primaries
How many of the "I will vote third party is he's the candidate" losers in here won't vote in their primary and then whine about who the candidate is?
That clip deserves to become a meme, if it isn't one already.
He's like a bot that got stuck in some sort of loop.
It's insane that his team had complete control over this footage and still thought it was a good idea to air. I'm thankful that they didn't have the better judgment to prevent this episode from seeing the light of day. Maybe the pod should have some actual leftists on so Newsom can stumble and equivocate his way into a good take for once.
That's the kind of rhetoric to insure he wont go to the Whitehouse
He said he don't know the defintion of genocide but still claim that it is not genocode
Gavin Newsom says Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza
Now hold on, maybe he's ramping up to say Israel is currently committing a genocide in Gaza. And no, I'm not going to watch the video to check.
I didnt bake a cake. Its still in the oven, I'm baking a cake. The distinction is small but important.