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How do Democrats get their mojo back? Definitely not by doing what California Governor Gavin Newsom done did! Which was to bring racist, antisemitic, oppressed-by-sign-language, short-pants wearing human Adobe pinch tool Charlie Kirk onto the first episode of his new podcast, and lap up Kirk’s advice to hop on the hateful, idiotic “banning transgender girls and women from sports” train with no pushback. And THEN inviting old three-shirts Steve Bannon on for a klatch about “populism” on his show, too, where they chatted it up in comrade-to-comrade tones, and Newsom politely did not push back as Bannon insisted Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Watch if you like groaning JESUS CHRIST WHY ARE YOU SO CHATTY WITH THAT CRIMINAL at your screen. [link]

Unshockingly, a follow-up poll after Newsom’s Charlie Kirk interview found that people really did not respond well to the supplication, and it sank Newsom’s favorability by a whopping 10 points. Surprise, surprise, the Republicans who already hated him him still hate him; Democrats were disgusted, and respondents from both parties wondered why he was podcasting at all instead of, like, doing his job as governor, a job he’s still supposed to be working at for another year until term limits kick him out.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

This fucking tool is gonna switch to Republican, isn’t he?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

All I saw was one short clip of Bannon smugly calling the honorable and decent Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas." Newsome could have pushed back, called it racist, and refused to allow it, but instead of having the proper moral response, he laughed. LAUGHED! What if Bannon had used the N-word? Would Newsome have laughed then?

I used to support the idea of him running for president, but with that revolting show of appeasement, he lost my vote.

I have been wondering why Dems aren't just surrendering, many seem to be openly supporting Republican treason. The only conclusion I can come to is that they have surrendered our country to the MAGA Nazis, and are now terrified of retaliation.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

He is prepping for his conservative debut, isn't he.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's term limited, so he can't run in the 2026 gubernatorial election. I guess he thinks the next step is the presidency so he's taking the buddy up to the conservatives strategy that worked so well for Harris...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the info!

[–] floofloof 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We're just discovering how many politicians are unprincipled enough to think, "Fascism's where it's at? OK, I'll be a fascist then."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

anybody who was watching already knew.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

He’s trying to make himself the designated opposition figure the GOP approves of

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I feel like Trump turned him when they met during the wildfire thing.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Newsom even slobbered to Kirk that his own 13-year-old son is one of his fans, and admired Kirk for that, instead of chewing out his lying ass for pied-pipering his son’s brain with hateful rhetoric encouraging children to be bullies. “We’re getting clobbered,” Newsom said at one point, and “you’ve figured something out.”

Gavin Newsom, you are doing a shit job of fathering. Has Newsom never given his son a man-to-man about to hategasming scammers like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon? I would not publicly admit to that level of parenting failure for a million bucks. Has Newsom been bitten by the right-wing brain slug himself?

And it was Newsom’s show. Why did he let Kirk do the framing? Kirk didn’t even wait a day before getting back on his song-and-dance blaming Newsom for “ruining” California, and right wingers mocked Newsom’s weird hand-flapping.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Privileged white boys love people who tell them they can do whatever they want, and that they’re the real winners.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Moderates" never get that...

R voters aren't voting for Republicans fiscal policy, they hate that almost as much as D voters hate neoliberal fiscal policy.

"Moderates" are now trying to meet them on social issues, but that literally erased the only difference between the parties now.

They just can't do the fiscal policies that are popular with the majority of voters, because then they don't get the ~~bribes~~ donations that the Clinton's made legal.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Pulling a Tulsi Gabbard

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is SO STRANGE to me! You mean that a DEMOCRAT that ALL REPUBLICANS WOULD LIKE TO PUNCH Still don't like him after he threw his ENTIRE BASE under the Bus? That's INSANE! I think he needs to go FURTHER RIGHT if he hopes to pick up the Republican AND Democrat Vote!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I'm gonna need a bigger bowl to catch all the sarcasm dripping off this comment. Lol