Man… people STILL haven’t learned from the find out stage of staying home instead of voting?
America is fucked.
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This is so lame if this is what the democratic party has their hopes on. Yeah, the dude that had dinner parties at high end restaurants during COVID is our only hope. Another dork. I want to live in the alternate timeline where Bernie won 2016.
I would vote for him in an instant if it means this hell would be over.
Id vote for cocaine bear is this nightmare would end.
I'd vote for a bear on cocaine in any elected position whenever I possibly could. Out of principal. If a bear on cocaine made its way onto a ballot you know he or she would be a great leader.
I also am in favour of cocaine bear
Plus a cocaine bear would definitely not be blowing up drug smugglers!
Nice, but I'll take the one where the Supreme Court didn't hand Bush the win in 2000
If Wilson hadn't won in 1912, Teddy would have been president in 1915. In hindsight that would have been better for everyone except the Czar. Russia wouldn't have lost, bolshevists wouldn't have taken over. Lenin probably never manages to rise to power, so neither does Hitler.
Beforehand, I would have thought that was the most consequential elections fuck up. However, Trump bullshit seems much more dangerous. Not to trivialize it, but it's much more annoying too. I have to give a shit about Jimmy Kimmel now? Wtf.
“Shockingly, I have just learned, that Gavin Newscum, the Governor of California, is in final stages of approval to build Low Income Housing in Pacific Palisades. How unfair is that to the people that have suffered so much!” Trump began in a post on his social media platform.
Trumps lies are making Newsom sound like a cool politician. Sadly he is just another piece of shit that simply happens to have humor.
Trumps lies are making Newsom sound like a cool politician. Sadly he is just another piece of shit that simply happens to have humor.
At this point, I'll take anything to get rid of Trump. The enemies of my enemies... We can deal with Newsom later, when the Trump regime is dispensed with.
Same, I will take a neo liberal over this shitstain of a man baby we are dealing with.
I would rather have a better candidate. Someone who appeals to a broad coalition of progressives, lefties, liberals and general non-nazis, and now is the time to look for that person. We're 3 years from the Presidential election - it's way too early to anoint Newsom or pretend that he's the only alternative to Trump's 3rd term.
We can deal with Newsom later, when the Trump regime is dispensed with.
Ah, but you won't, will you.
Yeah better let the Nazi destroy everything instead then huh
Do everything you can to get a better candidate than newsom in the primary, absolutely. But when it's the general election, and if he's the candidate, not voting against the Nazi makes you just another Nazi.
Yeah remember all the people that pushed Biden left and totally didn't spend 4 years yelling at leftists that criticized him cause he kept going right?
Yup I'm really hoping the DNC isn't going to set him up as the next presidential candidate.
Ever since the whole violating covid rules he set thing his name leaves a sour taste.
He’s a poster boy for establishment, so I hope not.
But I’m betting the DNC will campaign on “~~Trump~~ MAGA bad.” Again. Only with a twist.
Surely you guys have had enough of this MAGA crap, so let’s “get back to normal”, to get rid of MAGA and its destruction, you must vote for Daddy Establishment. And, it’s Newsom.
He wins. DNC takes the legislature and the Senate. And abortion is legalized. But nothing else happens.
Alternatively, JD Vance becomes Putin and we have no real elections going forward. (Melania was holding Trump’s hand on that England trip…high odds he’s not doing well.)
Hey, it's me cool guy Gavin Newsom. Trump has a weird penis, and is actually bad at managing money. Ha ha. Ha ha. What? It kills when I hang out with my rich friends eating over priced sushi. The Cheeto doesn't get jokes. Ha ha. Still nothing? Well you poors still need me to be the next president.
This is HILARIOUS! I can TOTALLY Look Past his Want of Exterminating Trans and Gay and Poor people in the Primaries if he KEEPS up with these Bangers!
Yeah that's not hyperbolic at all. Congrats, you're the reason support for trans issues is waning. Newsom wants to exterminate Trans/Gay/Poors? Citation needed.
Don't forget to purity check today! If you didn't purity check, how can you be sure that only pure of heart and wholesome on all sides people will help you fight fascism. You don't want unclean allies, don't you?
It's a purity check to not be amped about a guy that actively does the exact behavior that's decried when the right is the perpetrator?
Being a hypocrite is enlightened centrism now?
Nah man, I'll take any and all allies, but Newsom absolutely isn't that. Anybody willing to throw trans folks to the wolves for political gain is a shitstain.
How 'unclean' are you willing to tolerate?
Blue MAGA would tolerate Hitler if he ran as a Dem.
They would support trump exactly as he is right now if he were a dem. And still accuse leftists our purity tests are trying to get the other guy elected.
No, sorry the Democratic candidates have to at least be fuckable. Trump is probably the most unfuckable person on the planet.
They do have some standards.
And yet I'll see them accusing everyone else of treating politics like a sports team.
If I search for "maga house", "maga car", "maga outfit", etc, I will get a very specific set of images. Pages after pages of them.
Can you please demonstrate equivalents of what this "blue maga" looks like for those searches?
Just replace Trump with Kamala or whoever the next Dem nominee will be. I've seen houses set up the same way and clothing merch with all the nonsense. They act exactly like MAGA. You can't criticize their chosen God cause then you're seen as the enemy and they will fight like hell to protect their precious neolib from criticism.
I've seen houses set up the same way and clothing merch with all the nonsense
Really? I haven't. Not once.
Should be easy to share a picture demonstrating that then, right?
Something like:
Edit: The last time I asked this question, I was shown a tshirt, a hat, and a banner about Gavin Newsom poking fun at Trump, as three separate photos. The T-shirt wasn't even on a person.
If its so common, surely there must be some pictures.
Their car:
Their costume:
Their every day wear:
Their car:
Thats all removable.
Edit: To be clear, I mean that doesnt even survive rain. Its soap. And tape. Not a sticker, not a paint job, and not even a single flagpole!
Closer! But not remotely near what maga territory looks like.
Their costume
A hat and a T-shirt... Still seems a little bit like just regular stuff you see at a rally or convention...
Their every day wear:
Ah, t-shirts again. Not a vest with 80 patched on it that say Kamala, no coverage in ridiculous flags...hell, no Kamala tattoos in sight!
Sorry, none of that is remotely close yet. I appreciate the effort though!
Oh so you're wanting
Stickers
and flagpoles?
Much more like it!
Still not anywhere near that maga territory though, gotta get all that on one car, plus some paint jobs for permanence and that flag pole needs to be permanently mounted to be remotely close to... Even 2016 maga.
But a much better attempt than I have seen before! Well done.
The same guy that just said 'The best way to honor Charlie’s memory is to continue his work?'
It's a big club, and you ain't in it
I seriously don't understand how the dems think that trying to appease fascist by saying shit like this is going to get fascist to magically vote for them....they don't vote for you because you're a dem not because you're not repub enough.
The same guy [who] just said 'The best way to honor Charlie’s memory is to continue his work?'
you really need to read and comprehend what Gov Newsom was saying, there. It could really change your viewpoint on this.
I comprehend perfectly what newsom is talking about. He wants someone that believes that black women do not have the processing power to hold out a job and that they've taken a job from a white man. He wants someone that is going to preach that if they see a black pilot they're going to wonder if he is qualified and not a dei hire. He wants someone to continue the legacy of if their 10-year-old daughter gets raped to force them to have that child. He wants someone to follow in his footsteps to continue moving the Overton window further to the right so Democrats can keep marching further to the right with Republicans.
Is he ever gonna do anything besides being the weird old guy trying to seem cool with the kids?
I am sure he will get some witty writers to convince you he can. The real answer is no
