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Katie Couric confronts Gavin Newsom on his shifting views on transgender youth (www.advocate.com)
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[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

How much ~~sawdust~~ transphobia can you put in ~~rice crispies~~ a politician before people ~~notice~~ care enough to complain?

Also did he just do the "I have a black friend" thing with his godson? Because it kind of seems like he just did almost exactly that.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 56 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For everyone arguing it’s a niche issue, there’s plenty of non-LGBTQIA people who also care about trans rights. And the fascists are going to keep flogging the issue so the only way to deal with it is to address it head on. The fact that this is a question about Newsom makes this a problem.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The idea of Gavin Newsom running as a spoiler legitimately terrifies me.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 20 points 12 hours ago

He is the chosen representative of the part of the party that would rather have Trump than someone like Bernie.

[–] JayTreeman@fedia.io 68 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I wish they'd wake up and stop pushing this guy. They need to be pushing a Bernie style left of center. Otherwise it's going to swing so far left there's going to be carpenters working to build mideval structures outside their homes.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Actual Bernie would have been dope.

Trump: Rants for an hour over fucking windmills and how he can't flush his KFC shits.

Bernie: Walks to the podium, shouts out some reasonable policy, then shuffles off.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 2 hours ago

One of those people need to actually run.

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 33 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

We have a right wing party and an ultra far right wing party, neither of them will ever allow a left wing progressive into power.

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, this unfortunately. Truth nuke

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We got close to having Bernie twice.

If just a few scumbags had less influence, he would've won.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago

Pushing this guy is how they stay in power. They don't give a fuck if they win or lose. Democratic consultants had their best year in 2024 pushing two right wing slop candidates.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 13 hours ago

If I did not vote for him it would not be because of this statement. Heck im one who thinks maybe we just need to stop having sports seperated by sex and just have the league levels and you participate in the highes league you can get into.

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 3 points 11 hours ago

It's difficult to gauge leftist support for LGBT when everyone who opposes it is silenced.

[–] null@lemmy.org 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I want to not dislike they guy and I'll still vote for him over whatever fascist the Republicans nominte, but damn. It would be great if he actually was the person his social media team makes him out to be.

He'll get the nomination either way because he's the corporate pick.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Feel free to dislike him, as I do, but I'll vote for him if he's the nominee as well, because "not fascist" is how low the fucking bar is now.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

Establishment Dems are also fascists. They weren't even willing to curb this admin's war powers in Iran.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Wrong .1% issue to care about. Literally there are pedos running the whitehouse committing so many crimes

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 60 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Newsom isn't a democratic nominee running against Trump. He's a Democrat who wants to be chosen over other Democrats to be the 2028 nominee.

Calling out any apparent backsliding or bigotry is relevant, be it transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, sexism, or racism.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 33 points 16 hours ago

It’s not backsliding if he’s always been a bigot.

And frankly, the way he deals with homelessness is bad enough for me to vociferously oppose him.

We need solutions that fix people’s problems, not feeds the prison slave labor industry.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 15 hours ago

If he can't be trusted to help .1% amount of the population, how can he be trusted to help .6%, or 26%?