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[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

no matter what i will not vote for him

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 54 minutes ago

This is precisely the kind of messaging a strategic nazi pedophile would spread

[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 50 minutes ago

This is precisely the kind of messaging a strategic nazi pedophile would spread

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He has always been on the right

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

What's really sad is if trump was targeting homeless instead of immigrants he'd probably sided with Trump 😭

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

It would be an opportunity for "bipartisanship".

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Since when has that stopped them?

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Never, and it won't next time either. They'll keep blaming "purists" for not overlooking genocide or something.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 7 points 14 hours ago

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?

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I hate how stupid my fucking country is.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Biden failed. This we can agree on." "but.... But, maybe Newsom!"

I also fucking hate it here.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

It's the same people who then say Clinton and Harris only lost because they're women

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 points 21 hours ago
[–] zd9@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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.

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 49 minutes ago

If it's Newsom or a MAGA I'll take Newsom

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

The DNC has found their new milquetoast Neoliberal!

Yayyyy

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

It is twenty-fucking-twenty-five. Why on earth is this a thing that even exists?

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago

At this point, it's tantamount to a name ID poll.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

He's nothing if not a political opportunist. Really hoping a better candidate starts gaining traction though.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Republicans are rigging elections because they know that if they lose power, they're going to hang for their crimes.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We really are in the idiocracy timeline.

Politicians are picked on their staffer’s ai meme game

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