no matter what i will not vote for him
The alternative is the Republican. Nobody else will win.
that’s for the democrats to decide. but i will not vote for him full stop. they have time to change if they wish. but voting for him is a non starter
You aren’t required to vote for him in the primary, but failing to vote for the Democrat in the general is how we got Trump again.
If you don’t want another shitshow of a Republican president, you have to vote for the Democrat.
if my choice is between him and any republican, then bring on the end of democracy. enough with the farce. i will no longer vote to further gild this age.
we have had this discussion before… it was extensive.
Bears repeating. Your methodology is a race to the bottom, encouraging the worst candidate gets elected every time.
Nothing changes if you sit things out except it all gets worse.
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato
This is precisely the kind of messaging a strategic nazi pedophile would spread
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
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.
This is precisely the kind of messaging a strategic nazi pedophile would spread
It is twenty-fucking-twenty-five. Why on earth is this a thing that even exists?
Republicans are rigging elections because they know that if they lose power, they’re going to hang for their crimes.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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?
Eww no
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.
If it’s Newsom or a MAGA I’ll take Newsom
That’s a pretty good point
I’m appreciating Newsom as a foil to Trump, and want him to continue that, but I really wouldn’t want him to be the Democratic nominee. I’d much rather have a Mamdani-esque nominee
Why not? I don’t know much about him except that he isn’t 300 years old like the rest of the Democrats.
He seems to be doing a good job in California?
His willingness to throw trans kids under the bus is one of my problems with him.
Trans kids, homeless people, immigrants. All safely tucked under the bus. But hey, he’s favored by the rich white Democrats of California.
Don’t forget workers after the whole gig workers bill
He’s just another slimy corporatist owned by the ultra wealthy, but throws a bone to the social issues of Democrats. Pretty much the same strategy that modern Democrats have had for the past 40+ years. I will absolutely vote for him in the general or support him in pushing against Trump/Repulicans, but he’s one of my least favorite Democrats now.
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.
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.
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 nepliberals.
It’s kinda sad to just hope that there will still be elections, at that point…
Oh there will be “elections”.
We really are in the idiocracy timeline.
Politicians are picked on their staffer’s ai meme game
The DNC has found their new milquetoast Neoliberal!
Yayyyy
Ew. Patrick Bateman much?
At this point, it’s tantamount to a name ID poll.
Dem party infighting is exactly what the GOP wants. Don’t fall for it.
Why are you talking like this before a primary even happens? Why do you want the Democratic party to lose? What you disparage as “infighting” sane people would call debate.
There’s a toxic impulse among some centrists, the kind of folks that the label “Blue MAGA” applies to. This toxic impulse is to take a very Big Brother or Trumpian approach to politics. Circle the wagons. Support the leadership no matter what. Don’t try to improve the party or make sure the best candidate wins. Don’t focus on holding bad actors accountable. Just vote for dear leader and everything will be fine.
You’re not even waiting til the after the primary to start vomiting “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”
vOTe BluE nOMAtTer wHO
AcKsHuAlLy I’m A lEfTiSt
You would vote for the Nazis because they called themselves socialist
So easy to manipulate.
You’re the one falling for candidate propaganda before they’ve even announced running ;)
Are you kidding? Infighting is the only thing that will lead to a decent candidate. Primary fights are great
My cat’s name is Toast
You mention a cat, but don’t provide a pic? Most irregular
good thing I’m a leftist and not a dem.
Nobody asked
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