Gavin Israel First Newsom
Define normal pissant. I’m sure my Inland Imperial cultural norms would rub a shitstain like Newsome in all the wrong ways, least of all my absolute contempt for authority.
If he’s trying to say we should stop falling into the framing given to us by the unhinged right that talks way more about trans than trans probably do (Donvict just drops random phrases into his rambling monologues now: “transgender for everybody” and “men in women’s sports”), he’s not wrong about that.
I heard a far more nuanced take on this kind of thing on Pod Save America, by the way.
Divide-the-left effort going hard here.
You can tell because they have no alternative, only offering demotivation/departicipation
Not like they’re putting a gun to Gavin’s head and forcing him to repeatedly be a transphobic shithead (like, he has been this way for years in multiple interviews with multiple outlets now)
If we don’t want the left getting demotivated we should get leaders who don’t attack us all the time
Well, that approach got you Trump and Stephen Miller. How’s that going?
I mean we get these dick heads because of how even ranked choice voting works.
It doesn’t matter if 1/3 of lefties vote for a true leftie, if we don’t beat the Dems, then our votes go Dem…unless your not putting any rank vote on a Dem. Witch (it hurts to say it) is irresponsible
Democratic voters to Newsom: Fuck off.
Democrat voters if he wins the primary: most important election of our lifetime, we need to elect him so the other guy that’s exactly like him doesn’t get elected
I deeply hope it won’t happen, but if it’s him or the Nazis, then…
If he’s the candidate, I’m sitting the election out. Look, my community is under an attempted genocide right now. And as we’ve seen from the Starmer government in the UK, a nominally liberal government can be just as bad for trans rights as any Republican government. When Newsom says “be more culturally normal,” that is a dogwhistle for “take away the human rights of trans people.”
If the party isn’t willing to fight for my civil rights, sorry, I don’t owe you shit. You chose to do nothing after they first came for me, so I will laugh when they come for you.
Yep, this is how we keep shifting right. I don’t care how much it smells, when it comes down to the actual election, hold your nose and vote to shift left.
This mentality was super effective in 2024 at stopping the worst president of our lives from gaining power.
Again, I don’t care. You vote to throw me and my people on the pyre, you can all go to Hell as far as I’m concerned. We can all burn together.
Honestly, at this point I don’t blame you. If this is the dogsh*t the Dems consider a reasonable compromise then the Union has fallen.
Surprise they’re all Nazis.
WE ALREADY HAVE NAZIS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT. HAVING NAZI-LITE WITH NEWSOM SHALL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
If its him or the Nazi, the Nazis have won.
That’s rich coming from a dude who wants to see corporations control our identities, we use less resources but AI data centers and the Epstein class can leave the faucet running all while claiming he cares about the middle class.
Shit he might just win…
Well now I’m just gonna be weird EVEN HARDER.
I’ll never vote for a democrat again it Newsom gets the nomination, for any office, of any power. There needs to be consequences for a party that’s supposed to be an opposition party. And before you loser “vote blue no matter who” people run your jaws: I will never vote for a republican either and never have. Stand for something for once in your miserable lives instead of proving that you would support trump/vance if their party affiliation was Democrat.
Yes, JD Vance will be better.
You’d vote for him if he was a democrat. You stand for NOTHING.
Show me where Newsom endorsed something like Unhumans.
It’s one thing not to be all that wild about Newsom’s rather middling take on trans (specifically, transwomen in women’s sports, IIRC), but it’s quite another to act like there is no difference here.
People aren’t just randomly Democrats or Republicans - each group’s “fleet” is headed toward different general destinations. Which is why “i recognize significant differences between parties and the moral alignment of each” is a reasonable thing to stand for, and which can lead your choice.
Also, like you know me, what a laugh.
In general, most voters have no backbone to vote their conscience. They’re only willing to vote for who other people have told them is electable.
Like Eugene Debs said, “I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don’t want, and get it.”
