The Ballad of Starheal and Tata

people like you are responsible for everything we’re seeing now.

The feeling is mutual, friend.

the ‘greater American public’ have time and time again shown they are not interested in a progressive candidate

Haha aw thanks mate I needed a good laugh today!

The alternative is the Dems adopting a legitimate progressive platform. Liberals will stand on their heads before they support a progressive candidate. Case-in-point Zohran Mamdani.

There’s a clear path for gaining the support of the the greater American public. They kneecapped Bernie in 2016 and they’ll do it again and again until we make it clear we won’t budge. If Newsome runs for president we are virtually guaranteed a Vance presidency in 2028. Mark my words.

So if every state adopts this style of hyper-partisan gerrymandering, why bother having state reps at all?

Remember when Newsome invited alt-right dickheads on his podcast and essentially asked, “how can dems be more like you?” Turns out he listened. Performative twitter trolling and undermining our representative democracy.

Fuck each and every neoliberal, and that goes double for Gruesome Newsome.

Wow, nobody has a response to this. Hilarious.

Please enlighten me: what has Gruesome Newsome accomplished with regards to actual policy and legislation by adopting the same trolling methods of the far right?

He’s just pushing the Overton window further into insanity territory. You realize if everyone adopts gerrymandering it essentially just erodes another aspect of our representative democracy?

Fuck neoliberals. I didn’t vote for Kamala and I’m sure as hell not voting for Gavin “let’s have a chat with Nazis on my podcast” Newsome.

Can I still hate-read it though?

Spinelessness is the chief defining quality of the entire Democratic Party. There are very few individual exceptions and those people need to start a new party. The US needs a real progressive party. The establishment Dems have made it very clear they won’t support a true progressive candidate, so what’s the point of bending the knee to these fuckers any longer?

Hey check out this hotshot over here with a long term memory! No, didn’t you hear she ran a perfect campaign they just couldn’t get enough celebrity endorsements…

Biden already said that the US doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Aaaaand Kamala ran on a pro-fracking platform.

I mean, jfc do you people have the memory of goldfish or were you just not paying attention in the first place? Proud to be one of the 13 million, personally. Have fun voting for Liz Cheney when she runs as a democrat in four years!

Completely agree, but I’ve been seeing so many similar sentiments on Lemmy since the election. Today I saw someone comment, almost word for word, that there was no problem with Kamala’s campaign - the issue was simply that Americans are too stupid. Someone else on a totally different post commented that this election proves the Dems could run Jesus Christ himself and half the country would still reject him. And those are just two examples. This is one of more unhinged meltdowns I’ve ever seen.