Maga repubs really, really, really don't get it. Millions of us are laughing at their hypocrisy while they melt like snowflakes.
The phrasing seems like a stretch. Everyone involved is cis, nobody was pointedly refusing to use preferred pronouns. Misgendering implies there was something transphobic happening (not that that wouldn't also be kind of on brand for Newsom). Just more vaguely queerphobic mysoginist BS from Newsom, pretty on brand, he's a POS, what else is new.
gavin newsom continues to be homophobic right wing trash.
and I'm pretty sure it's theater to make him more likeable for a future bid for the presidency - the more Gavin Newsom can alienate the unlikeable and perceived weirdo elements of the Democrats, the more he probably thinks he has a chance of picking up conservative voters in addition to the moderate Dems who would still vote for him, I wouldn't be surprised if this were an electoral strategy ...
I'm sure you're right. I'm also certain it's an asinine, braindead strategy that'll never work.
The really funny part is that they keep trying it and it keeps not working, but clearly the problem is that they didn’t do it hard enough the last 3 elections.
Democrats always trying to pick up a center that doesn't exist
Why the things he's saying now it seems they're going directly for right-wing voters. But right-wing voters already have a party that serves their flavor of bigotry just fine, and they have strong brand loyalty. These corporate Democrats have no clue, but probably some consultant told them this would work.
the center may be more transphobic than you think, he isn't using right wing dog or wolf whistles like Elon and Trump, he's mostly taking an anti-trans stance which might be somewhat popular and might be one of those dividing issues that keep otherwise "centrists" from voting for a Democrat (though mostly what polling indicates is voters don't care about the trans issue, because the GOP is flaming a moral panic about it, that is what remains salient for Dems of what the "other side" cares about).
If it didn’t exist, they’d never get votes.
The problem is that it’s rapidly shrinking in part because of their strategies and in part because they don’t call out the other party on their shit more often.
yes, I was being hyperbolic - Clinton successfully ate the Republicans' lunch by being a better conservative than them, so it seems like a consistent strategy. Democrats are more interested in appealing narrowly to reliable voters, rather than trying to appeal to people who refuse to vote, haven't ever voted, or other disenfranchised non-voters, which is a mistake because the number of people eligible to vote, but who don't reliably vote, make up a very large portion (so much that they make up the largest block of voters, larger than Dem or GOP voters in most elections - a reason electoral abstentionism seems like an unlikely strategy, since a majority already abstain with no significant impact to the government's sense of legitimacy).
Partly this is an issue of Dems being elitist, they are not into populist politics and prioritizing the lower classes in their rhetoric, and part of this is just basic electoral strategy and the kind of established, expert-approved approach to winning elections.
Replied to the wrong comment, d'oh >_<
Bye bye, democratic party! I’d rather die than willingly vote for people who dehumanize my trans brother, sisters, and themsters.
Looks like you're in need of a reality check.
For the foreseeable future, and likely for the remainder of your life, you will have one of two parties in control of the American federal government. Democrats or Republicans. No 3rd party is even remotely viable. Not even close. And no 3rd party is even trying to be.
Now, less than a year ago America found out what happens if you don't vote or vote 3rd party. The answer is fascism. Fascism happens. Because the fascists are crossing their fingers and hoping you stay home or blow your vote on a 3rd party.
So you can take these facts and use them to make intelligent decisions in the future, or you can keep posting emotional, unhelpful comments like the one you just posted. I'm crossing my fingers you make the intelligent decision.
Guys there's no solution but to vote DNC. Vote blue no matter who. It doesn't matter if they cheat in the primaries or run a cop for president or cherry pick LGBT rights or refuse to make any concessions to the left at all, the only option is the one the democratic establishment runs. You can't run for office or win office, you don't have the choice to run third party, you can't do anything but keep playing their game.
If the DNC wants to win an election, Mamdani is showing them exactly how to do it. It's too late to make the "but fascism will happen" fascism is already happening and the DNC is spineless, cowardly, and performatively powerless. The threat doesn't work any more.
I mean it's a pretty simple question.
Would you rather have Dems in power right now or Republicans? There is no other option that's going to happen in reality.
Reminder that none of this insane crazy bullshit was happening before January.
Not really my fault the DNC couldn't run a candidate that could beat DJT.
Why not? Keep telling yourself that and it's true.
So you won't vote? Or vote third party?
If people say “yes I’ll still vote for them if they run an openly homophobic person.” Then the party has no reason not to.
Regardless of what people’s actual decisions is on voting day; It is imperative to say one wouldn’t vote for them over these issues. It needs to be made clear that “not being as bad” is a losing strategy.
Insisting that people must commit to voting for them, regardless of their platform, and calling them an idiot if they say no, is basically giving the party tacit support to drop protecting minorities from their platform.
Do you give the democrats tacit support to do that?
A significant aspect of being an adult is damage control.
This all boils down to a very simple question.
Would you rather have Democrats in control or Republicans?
There is no third option, no matter how hard people fantasize about it. There is no reality where we all hold hands and make a 3rd party viable out of nowhere. No 3rd party is even trying to be viable. In 2024 the 3rd party candidate with the most votes got a whopping half of a single percent of the total votes cast. That is rock solid proof that no 3rd party is even remotely viable.
So.
Democrats or Republicans?
Because from my point of view, out of those options, the answer is unbelievably obvious.
Critasism must be leveled at both, and the only criticism that means anything to a party that matters is “I will not vote for them” regardless of the truthfulness of that statement. The only influence we have over the government is who we vote for.
To say you would vote for one party no matter what means you have no influence over their platform and tacitly accept everything they do, meaning you have basically given up any influence over the government in the same way as if you never voted at all. Demanding that others do that is insisting that people not use the one influence they have over the government.
It's likely a targeted LGBTQ+ campaign to withdraw votes and support for Democrats would result from an openly anti-gay, anti-trans candidate, yes. This is mostly to throw our weight around and convince them that they need our support if they want to win elections.
Newsom’s campaign X account @GovPressOffice commented on Presler’s video, writing, “thank you, Nancy Mace.” The reply received over 12,000 likes by Tuesday evening.
But while numerous X commenters seemed to support the reply, Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren commented, “You’re kidding me right? Your state and your bulls**t Governor rant and rave on a daily basis about protecting gay people, and you’re really going to use your official press office account to troll a gay conservative and call him a woman?”
GovPressOffice responded to Lahren’s comment by replying, “you sound woke,” The Daily Dot reported. Right-wingers have increasingly used “woke” as a pejorative for socially progressive viewpoints that emphasize the respectful inclusion of marginalized people, including non-white and LGBTQ+ groups.
Gavin Newsom is a bandwagon-jumping "anti-woke", homophobic and transphobic right-winger. He's not what the USA needs in a Democratic Party presidential candidate.
I don’t care for the “mocking Trump by copying him” strategy. Brainless supporters can have their family members die or be deported and will still vote for him.
It’s just adding to the noise. I’ll be happy to be proven wrong regardless.
yeah it just seems cringey as fuck to me. It more contributes to my theory that Gavin has seen that the old liberal playbook is failing, and has decided to copy the fascist's. Shit like this is not helping his case.
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