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Moving to the right in preparation for a POTUS run. It never works and just plays right into the Ruling Party's hands.
Liberals gonna Lib.
This is just in, Newsom confirms that he is indeed a bigoted piece of shit.
Owner class pulling the strings… per usual.
Oops! The mask slipped off!!
I still don't understand why people idolized Reagen. The guy was not good
Especially since when he was governor, he ordered the army into Berkeley to corral the protesting Boomers, but then when those same Boomers got older and richer, they didn't want to pay taxes so they embraced him. These same "enlightened educated hippies" have descendants who now make up the tech bros controlling the country and embracing fascism.
In his last years, he was as demented as Trump, and he killed millions with purposeful inaction on AIDS, much like Trump with COVID.
Don't forget Nancy... she was a real gem, too.
I would argue, he was bad, even.
Well, Reagan was another smooth-talking weasel with a slicked-back quiff. Game recognize game.
The post says: The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
He’s a fellow rich person. If he would’ve praised Reagan’s economic policy it would’ve at least made sense. But out of all the things to choose… his “humanity” is the 1 you want to praise? Seriously?
If he would’ve praised Reagan’s economic policy it would’ve at least made sense.
Running up the deficit and leaving it to the Dems to clean up?
My guess is it's half same old attempts/mistakes of trying to give a bridge to a way off the MAGA ship. There are A LOT of voters who believe Reagan did good things for the economy, and his economic policy directly conflicts with MAGA's pro tariff policies.
It's not likely to help many Republicans see things as wrong, and is very likely to make possible voters who would vote for a good Democrat candidate to question them.
Newsom isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive virtues and certainly would continue to benefit from trickle-down policies.
It’s not hard to imagine that he actually likes Reagan’s policies here, never mind that his corporate donors gave him his marching orders.
Which policies has he enacted in CA which mirror or support trickle down? All I ever hear is how he's not progressive enough, but when I look at his record I see a LOT of progressive action. Much like how he's "anti trans" for not signing 1 bill, he signed numerous others that year protecting queer people, and now he's being attacked for being too pro-trans.
It's pretty funny watching the left split and splinter this far out, because of all the purity testing. No one will ever be progressive enough, pure enough. And if somehow they were perfect enough to appease the left wing, there'd be 0 chance of getting red votes.
The next Dem who gets elected will do so using some centrist attitudes including towards social issues which we're losing on badly. Might be time to get wise to that.
It's like the old saying - do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Should we wait for the perfect candidate, or should we, IDK, maybe try to win the next election?
His first podcast guest was Charlie Kirk, and he agreed with him about trans people. He is anti trans. Just because he isn't advocating for us to be rounded up and put in camps like the Republicans, doesn't mean he supports trans people.
Ronald Reagan was a cuckold.
His first wife used to drag him to parties, mock him in front of other men, and then go home with those men.
As she once said at one of these parties, "if you asked Ronnie to tell you the time, he would tell you how they build watches."
Is that rely true? I cant tell