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It's so obvious the democratic party lied about Biden to get through the nomination phase and used the fact that the money already donated for the campaign was specifically to Biden or Harris and would not have easily been given over to any other new candidate. You do have to wonder, especially after how Trump was greeted by them, just what actually happened here. The fact is that the truth about Bidens condition should have been known, he should have decided not to run, and the Democratic party should've had a real primary for real candidates and new ideas. Tim Walz was as bad of a VP pick as Tim Kaine. The white guy as VP to shore up the right wing vote is a total myth. Biden was kind of the first one, then Tim Kaine, then Tim Walz. It just doesn't work. Neither will Newsoms podcast attempt at finding common ground which he hopes will translate into moderate votes. Democrats really have no clue just how bad things are about to get...
It was known, and lots of us were shouting from the rooftops about it, But Democrats and liberals did everything they could to shut us up, accuse us of being Russian bots, accuse us of helping to get Trump elected, when it was liberals that got Trump elected by ignoring the people that saw every single sign
It didn't help that the New York Times and other media outlets were all in on talking shit about Biden, and that undermined their credibility on the age issue. It was only after Biden's disastrous showing at his debate with Trump that the average voter had any credible evidence of his decline.
I wouldn't be surprised if Newsom pulls a Tulsi Gabbard and switches sides. He had Charlie Kirk (of TPUSA) on his podcast where he "completely aligned" with him on trans rights (i.e. eradicating us), then had Steve Bannon on. That's a bit much even for the Liz Cheney flank of the DNC.
I suspect Newsom doesn't see any future for his party, and is bailing out instead.
That's EXACTLY what I'm expecting, when he stood up to Trump I thought he'd be alright, but the dude has basically been courting the Far Right and going all in on being as transphobic as possible.
He'll run the sadly profitable "I was on the Left peacefully drinking Kombucha and eating Avocado Toast like the next pink pussyhat wearing hippie, but then they went too far when they tried to tell me the Holocaust actually happened! They've gone completely nuts!" grift.
I’ve been wondering if there’s a gas leak at Newsom’s house. The hell happened to him?
In my experience, the higher up you go in both parties, you tend to sort of arrive at the same places with the same people... and most importantly, the same donors and the same money machine. That's the great thing about the U.S. dollar really, corruption and selling Govt from Citizens United to today sort of drives the bipartisan nature of it because it all greases the wheels of the two party political machine.
I've listened to several episodes of his podcast... I'll probably continue listening but in the first episode Newsom basically kept saying he only got into college because his scores were low and he played baseball. Then he kept backing down to Charlie Kirk, Bannon, etc, while constantly saying he doesn't know what to do and kept asking them for ideas. In the first episode, there was a moment where he said Jesus Fucking Christ or something to Charlie Kirk, which called him out on it. It's like, the very voters he's trying to go after will hear that and stop at the first episode. He will gain no allies on the right as he abandons the party he is supposed to believe in, along with the core values he is supposed to defend. He thinks having a podcast with right wing guests where he gets sort of transactional on the issues. Like, do you think giving up the trans in sports debate is going to win you anything when their entire side would like to see gay marriage go away entirely? While you claim to still even support that? Do these people even think any of this through?
If Newsoms approach is the best the Democrats have to offer, then it might be game over for a very long time...
Newsom is an amazing combination of a spineless coward and a heartless monster that if he's the Democratic Candidate, it might be the first year I don't vote. I will NEVER willingly put a transphobe in the White House.
And every time you point this shit out, people will stick their fingers in their ears and say:
the law literally says they don't have to lmao, go take that up with the DNC or something.
Yeah, everyone keeps bringing this up like it's some kind of dunk, but the DNC can basically run things as they please. Don't like it? Start another party. The party's procedure goes back a few decades by now. People act like when Biden dropped out they did this crazy double secret turbo maneuver but the fact is the DNC can put forth whomever they want.
literally, it's how this works, go bitch at the DNC or get legislators to do something about it lmao.
the argument for this one is that the super pac was biden/harris, not any other random person, so it's questionable whether they would've been able to use super pac funding at all especially at such short notice, given the technicalities of super pac funding. The majority of DNC funding, sure, but super pacs are most of the money in elections these days.
Gavin's going to run more Diet Republican than any Democrat ever before and that's going to make even my "Blue, no matter who!" ass not vote for him. I'm already thinking about staying home in '28 because Trump can't win a third time and Gavin's a transphobe.