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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.
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.
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?
Lmao, yea I'm not touching that one
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.
Are you new here?
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’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.
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.
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I can read. So. Good one.
Has that not occurred to you? Here. You should probably realize that other people are involved in deciding your country's future. Take your time.
Cynically picky? Ha! What bullshit.
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You might be able to read but you've certainly missed the irony.