Governor calls Trump ‘Taco’ online, short for ‘Trump always chickens out’, prompted by president’s flip-flop deadlines

Governor calls Trump ‘Taco’ online, short for ‘Trump always chickens out’, prompted by president’s flip-flop deadlines

California governor Gavin Newsom says the state will draw new electoral maps after Donald Trump “missed” a deadline on Tuesday night in an ongoing redistricting battle between Democratic and Republican states.

In a letter sent to Trump on Monday, Newsom said he would prefer to leave the matter of congressional map-making to independent commissions, not partisan legislative bodies and emphasized that he would “happily” stand down if other states abandoned their redistricting effort. But, Newsom said: “California cannot stand idly by as this power grab unfolds.”

Several states have waded into the redistricting wars, where Newsom and other Democratic state leaders had threatened to draw retaliatory maps if Texas were to move ahead with its redistricting scheme.

    • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
      691·
      3 months ago

      He’s got to be getting under Trump’s skin. The worst thing you can do is ridicule a narcissist, as they hate being laughed at.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Unfortunately necessary to talk to the level so trump’s followers understand. It’s like speaking another language

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          3 months ago

          It would be even funnier if they had two different handles that communicated the same data: one in a normal fashion, AND ONE THAT SHOUTS AT YOU AND ASSUMES THE COMPREHENSION LEVEL OF A TODDLER THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -GD

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      3 months ago

      I don’t like this era of troll politics.

      The trolls should have stayed online. And y’all were so fucking stupid to continuously discount online discourse like it wasn’t happening in the real world. Is it clear now? The internet is just a communication medium for the real world. It wasn’t just an alternate reality you could dismiss.

      This is not directed at the person whose post I’m replying to. Just people who were overly dismissive of online communication spaces and the reality of social media.

  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
    916·
    3 months ago

    Okay, but Gavin calling himself handsome, even to mock Trump, makes me a bit ill.

    Edit: I’m guessing the downvoters are not from California and have not been witness to Gavin’s photo shoots to promote things like clearing/busting encampments of unsheltered people while trying to look like he’s in a Gucci ad, ‘Blue Steel’ and all. He’s a disingenuous hack who is making as many bad moves as good ones lately, because he is trying to play to both sides for his 2028 presidential run.