-Make a popular statement.
-Tilt head sideways 🤔
-Do a thing with your hands 🙌
-Put the statement into question.
Congratulations, you’ve now learned how to do the Newsome.
Newsom is not a good choice, they tried to recall him with merit, it didn’t fail because he was a good candidate, it failed because half the people trying to recall him were doing it because MAGA and his biggest opponent was a wacko that dragged a bear across the state as a PR stunt. After that recall failed he pushed a bunch of liberal programs and policies he’s been fighting to get a good name.
He is not a good candidate he will do whatever he thinks will garner support, yes that means in some cases he passes things beneficial, but he doesn’t care. You stop being an important enough voting block and he’ll drop those promises like a hot potato.
My problem is he shows a willingness to betray transpeople. I don’t even think we’d get our passports back if h3 was elected
We have a Californian RFKJr.? Or was the bear alive?
it was alive, it was a bear actor he hired. He campaigned across the state with the bear, talking about how manly and strong the was. Alot of people did not appreciate metaphorically dragging the bear across the state.
Yeah, we’ve been kinda disrespectful to bears in general in this state. Heck the one we put on the flag looks terrified.
He’s also extinct…so…there’s that as well
He is not a good candidate he will do whatever he thinks will garner support…
I might just be really jaded, but that’s exactly what I want. A key thing being that they aren’t doing it for the owner class. I want them to look at what the average person is actually asking for and do that. I don’t care if they actually like it.
Edit: to be clear, I don’t like this man. If you can’t tell, the “… that they aren’t doing it for the owner class” part rules him out. An almost perfect candidate, in my opinion, would be one who listens to the people exclusively. This would mean they support progressive policies, and they change with the times. Isn’t that what we want?
A key thing being that they aren’t doing it for the owner class.
Yeah, that’s where it falls apart.
It shouldn’t be illegal to harm politicians who lie for clout.
I have a lot more respect for people who say they support genocide right in my face than lie but then go tell someone else that they support genocide. At least the former I can believe when they say what their personal beliefs are.
Sadly Newsom is most likely going to the democrat presidential candidate this cycle and it’s gonna really suck.
This guy was once married Kimberly Gilfoyle, who was Don Jr’s concubine for a long time, until he got a different ugly concubine, and exiled her to be Ambassador to Greece, where she can’t run her surgically altered mouth in the media.
That’s all I need to know about either of them. He’s a Manchurian MAGA.
The best case and most generous scenario is that he simply doesn’t believe in anything except his own advancement. Why is he a democrat? Because he wanted to be governor of California and he knows that there’s too much competition at the top on the other side. If he acts like that and has beliefs that might actually be even more damning
O I guess he saw how bad his chances are at president and is trying to be a John fetterman
Sure, sure - so who are the Lemmyleft promoting instead?
. . .
It . . . you have to have someone. To, y’know, recieve the votes.
. . . Anyone? There’s a big thing happening in a couple of years. I’m told these things need to be planned out or something.
I’ll assume you’re asking in good faith despite coming across as an obtuse chunk of drywall.
Most of the big bets are waiting for midterms before making a move. It will be a handful of names like Mark Kelly, AOC, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ro Khanna jumps into the ring. It may be more too, but again, midterms are going to basically dictate who gets the power and support.
My bets are on Mark Kelly currently, and leads my personal list alongside AOC. Not perfect candidates, but would be amazing leaders of US policy and tone for the repair-work we need to do.
On the other side, we’re going to get an absolute circus of freakish, stupid right-wing nutjobs and youtube influencers and CEO’s. They’re also waiting for the midterms to get a gauge of how good their chances are.
(I’ve been around a few decades, this is not new, we are going to get a democrat president, who will spend 8 years fixing the economy, then dumbass fucking chud population will finally rage at the woke and liberalism and elect some kind of mecha-Mussolini to start a bunch of wars and start the cycle over again.)
I encourage you to actually get politically informed so you can you know, vote intelligently. Assuming you’re in the US.
AOC.
Go ahead. Let me know that the genocide wing is suddenly racist and sexist as soon as it’s suggested that a progressive woman of color might run.
PSL
it’s psl
go organize with the psl
instead of sitting on your ass lecturing others they should be doing something help out the psl
a better candidate isn’t going to materialise out of nowhere you actually have to do something with the psl
We don’t even know who’s running yet. Implying people aren’t allowed to criticize shitty hypocritical politicians because they might, at some future date, announce they’re running for president is completely ridiculous.
Since when is
you must already have a candidate
A reason to say a terrible politician is terrible?
Since that’s all it has ever been. Biden’s terrible, Harris is terrible, Schumer and Jeffries are beyond terrible - yeah, great, got it. What’s the plan then?
All I ever get are non-sequitur rants about seizing the means of production and incorrect assertions about the elections process from people who have never lived in the US. That is - by itself, with nothing ever else appearing - less than worthless.
pull Al Franken out of retirement. This Newsom bullshit ain’t it.
Also good!
Since that’s all it has ever been. Biden’s terrible, Harris is terrible, Schumer and Jeffries are beyond terrible - yeah, great, got it. What’s the plan then?
Wild how often it’s the case of dems in power being terrible.
Also so does that mean we can’t say trump/putin/bibi is terrible without specifying an alternative?
Wild how often it’s the case of dems in power being terrible.
I see some love for AOC (but also insta-damnation if dog forbid she hews incorrectly), Mamdani got a lot of love (for a city mayor) at least until he made the fatal error of crossing a SocDem, and Bernie gets love. But that’s it. 99.8% of Democrats are the worst, most evil fascists under the sun according to their support base. If you believe that.
Is it any wonder they look to the center for support when it gets close to election time?
Also so does that mean we can’t say trump/putin/bibi is terrible without specifying an alternative?
For the first 100 slams, no those are free. After that you have to have something else besides a big bag of bitching. But only for trump, unless you’re voting in the israeli or russian election.
Which, sometimes I wonder if some of the commenters are.
Is it any wonder they look to the center for support when it gets close to election time
Yeah cause they don’t want to actually provide anything the people want.
And unsurprisingly again avoiding the point to continue to just punch left
Yeah cause they don’t want to actually provide anything the people want.
What like national healthcare? A Green New Deal? Yeah The People din’t want that shit they want to murder children, right?
And unsurprisingly again avoiding the point to continue to just punch left
What point? Democratic candidates are depraved existential horrors roaming the land devouring women and children alive for sport? Sure lemme google some things i’ll get back to you.
The so-called left can’t even be relied upon to vote against literal paramilitary gangs roaming the streets murdering mothers and nurses. That’s who you want them to spend all their political capital chasing? Well, good luck. But just so you know they’re not going to vote anyway. Purity tests are real and they are unwinnable.
Purity tests
This always means “I have no standards and I expect you to abandon yours.”
What like national healthcare? A Green New Deal? Yeah The People din’t want that shit they want to murder children, right?
Weird how neither parties run on that
The so-called left can’t even be relied upon to vote against literal paramilitary gangs roaming the streets murdering mothers and nurses. That’s who you want them to spend all their political capital chasing? Well, good luck. But just so you know they’re not going to vote anyway. Purity tests are real and they are unwinnable.
Wow, amazing how you’re only point is blaming the voters.
left can’t even be relied upon to vote against literal paramilitary gangs roaming the streets murdering mothers and nurses
Again, both parties were okay with that. There wasn’t one who would stop it
Mamdani fell out of favor?
For a few minutes, yeah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/nyregion/mamdani-dsa-socialist-mayor.html
Paywalled article
Of the people who’ve expressed interest in a 2028 run, I’d take Buttigieg or Kelly over Newson any day. Of the speculated candidates, AOC over all 3. Pritzker over Newson, too.
There yo go. See people, it’s not that hard
You’ll forget this and repeat your bullshit about the left not having a candidate the next time anyone expresses any dissatisfaction whatsoever with one of your preferred genocidal candidates.
Because the primaries haven’t started is why people usually say this is an acceptable time to criticize newsom.
He is spending all his time trying to meet people who think he’s the devil halfway. He’s so delusional, idk if we’d get anything from Newsom but MAGA-light anti trans bullshit, anti homeless bullshit. He doesn’t know or care about the democrat voters or their needs at all.
Other governers have been floated. Idk if we need Newsom at all in any future presidential election.
And fair enough, but what - besides shitting on existing candidates - is there? Now that we’re nearly midway to the next presidential election?
So far in the, now years, that I’ve been asking, there’s nothing. Nothing but more shitting on existing candidates and outrage that I should ask who should get support.
That seems . . . not viable as a strategy to gain access to offices.
Agitating for better policies is not “nothing” no matter how much you’re bothered by it.
edit: I’m also fascinated by this commentary because for a year+ leftists and progressives were told not to criticize Biden because it was “too close to an election”, and now we’re being told by the same people that not to criticize any potential candidate at any time, or else we’re hurting the democrats’ chances in 2 and a half years.
It’s like libs have learned absolutely nothing from blithely accepting a milquetoast, unpopular moderate shitbag as their candidate and getting their asses handed to them for it.
What part of “Newsom is worse than Hitler” is “agitating for better policies”?
I’m specifically saying you should advocate for the candidate you want NOW instead of only and forever shitting on candidates other people pick. But you can’t even do that.
Because you’re using “libs” I’m assuming you’re not American? Or just have a real affinity for the republican nazi party?
Or are you actually an anarchist and therefore opposed to elections?
Who said Newsom is worse than Hitler?
“Newsom is worse than Hitler”
Lmao, yea I’m not touching that one
candidates other people pick
Should I take this to mean that you’ve selected Newsom before he or anybody else has actually announced? Who has ‘picked’ a candidate at this point?
What I don’t see in this comment is an actual defense of Newsom by any sort of merit, which is about as expected. People criticizing Newsom (or any other presumptive candidate at this point) for his policy positions are sending signals that there’s a hole in the presumptive candidate pool that someone can fill. If someone were to actually announce their candidacy, they’d have a pretty clear lane to pick that Newsom has left open (but actually maybe not, since he himself can’t seem to pick a lane on just about any issue, and is instead just swerving back and forth across the entire field). I think AOC would be a decent pick to fill that lane, even if I have my apprehensions, but she hasn’t announced yet either.
Because you’re using “libs” I’m assuming you’re not American?
Are you new here?
Should I take this to mean that you’ve selected Newsom before he or anybody else has actually announced?
Oh no, I don’t know anything about him other than his trump trolling. I just see people already losing their minds at the thought that he could be the nominee.
I think AOC would be a decent pick to fill that lane, even if I have my apprehensions, but she hasn’t announced yet either.
I’d love to see an AOC candidacy. But given America’s obvious problem with voting for women I dunno how it would play out. I guess it depends if we all survive that far.
Are you new here?
Yeah yeah just fell off the turnip truck. Back home liberal means progressive and leftist is between sophmore and junior in college. As it has done for literally generations. Other countries, though, use it differently.
- doesn’t know who Newsom is other than his meming
- claims to like AOC but worries she cant win because she’s a woman
- complains that everyone else is just being cynically picky for taking issue with candidates actual policy positions
- claims the title of liberal for “”““progressives””“”
🫡
Idk. We’ll see if his midterm gambit pays off and if he has any other anti gerrymandering proposals.
He’s bad on affordability. He’s bad on social issues. He’s bad on economic issues. The only thing going on is he seems to understand twitter and gerrymandering.
The only thing going on is
hehis pr staff seems to understand twitter and gerrymandering.
