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Gavin Newsom turns on the press for asking Trump softball questions (www.independent.co.uk)

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The California governor described White House reporters as ‘sycophants’

California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the media for what he described as overly deferential coverage of Donald Trump, characterizing reporters in Oval Office press briefings as “sycophants.”

The Democratic governor — widely seen as a potential contender for the 2028 presidential race — made the remarks during a Sunday interview with progressive commentator Jack Cocchiarella.

Cocchiarella pressed Newsom on what he framed as “hesitancy” within the White House press corps to scrutinize certain subjects: namely, the 80-year-old president’s health.

“You see these press conferences in the Oval Office,” the governor replied. “You maybe have one or two reasonable reporters. They ask a question; there's no chance for a follow-up. And then it’s seven sycophants from news outlets.”

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago

Lefties you gotta get your person up and ready. Presuming elections still exist and should this guy emerge as the frontrunner you have about 814 days before you have to vote for this guy or continue flushing ourselves down the republican hole.

Every article about him brings the boo-birds. That’s fine, but there’s still no champion for our leftier-than-thou politicos. You just gonna let it ride on Bernie again?

[-] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 38 points 1 month ago

Bernie is officially too old (honestly, he was in 2015)

If Newsome is on the ballot in november I'll vote for him. Of course if Lassie was on the ballot as a democrat in 2028, I'll vote for her.

Don't give a shit. Anything is better than a republican.

[-] shirasho@feddit.online 22 points 1 month ago

That is NOT true. Voting for a Democrat that does nothing is just as bad. Not only would they do nothing to reverse the damage, they have actively taken votes that would have been better used on a politician that actually cares.

A lot of people will blindly vote for the person with a D next to their name. The Democratic party is purposely not putting the best candidates forward. There needs to be more awareness of who the duds are and either vote them out or not vote them in.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 38 points 1 month ago

Primaries are where you decide. After that, you choose the least worst. And sorry, a "Democrat that does nothing" is not just as bad as open fascism.

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[-] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 27 points 1 month ago

And that's how people like Trump become president. Pure and simple.

Sometimes the lesser of two evils is quite a lot less fucking evil.

[-] shirasho@feddit.online 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem as I see it is that you and the other posters here have fallen for the moving goalposts. "Shit is ok - at least it isn't vomit." That is such a poor and defeatist mentality to have. It isn't a bad thing to want more. Don't be OK with "the lesser of two evils". Fight for at least one good candidate. Hold your party accountable for choosing awful candidates that don't have the people's best interests at heart.

I have voted for the lesser of two evils, and I will continue to do so. That won't stop me from asking for better, and it will not change my mind that inaction in a bad situation is no better than doing bad things.

[-] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 11 points 1 month ago

That's what primaries are for.

Like it or not, we live in a two-party system. The electoral college and the congressional rules make it so. We can either make it work, or we can give up.

I'm going to vote for the leftist, most progressive person i can in the primaries. But when that fails, I'm going to vote for the democrat on the ticket because even the worst democrat is better than the best republican at this point.

We can't afford another 4 years of Trump-Light in JD Vance.. Millions of people have already died as a result of Trump getting back in this time... and more people will die, and it will be marginalized people. People of Color, Trans people, immigrants. As in real death.

Not Voting has real consequences.

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[-] prole 10 points 1 month ago

Voting for a Democrat that does nothing is just as bad.

Good luck convincing anyone who has eyes and a brain

[-] edible_funk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Dude lemmy eats this shit up like a fat kid getting after a cupcake.

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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago

Every article about him brings the boo-birds. That’s fine, but there’s still no champion for our leftier-than-thou politicos.

Crazy, It's almost like the DNC is complicit in keeping any viable economically left winged candidates away from any seat of power where they could one day become a decent candidate for president.

I really can't understand why anyone would think Gavin Newsome is a good candidate. Imo the only thing different between the mainstream Democrats and the Republicans is an affectation of wokeness, and Gavin Newsome doesn't even clear that hurdle.

His only talent in life is cheating on his wife and befriending the Gettys. Literally has not had to work for a thing in his life. Daddy bought him a degree at a private school, got a baseball scholarship..... never played a single game. His best friend bought him a winery, and then had Mayor Brown take him under his wing in SF, and then had governor brown do the same exact thing.

Can we not go a little bit farther to the left than the best friend of an oil Barron?

[-] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

I’ll do what I always do watch the Dem establishment shit all over everything while I hold my nose and vote for a shit stain like newsowm. There’s plenty of time for a “lefty” candidate to rise as long as the DNC fucks off to hell.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'll be shocked if AOC runs for president and not against Schumer.

If she doesn't then just vote Michelle Obama in, as there's really nobody else I can think of in a position to run by then. Not a leftist at least in the surface but she'd win in a landslide. Easily. And I'd prefer her over someone like Newsom or Shapiro..

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago

She'll go for Schumers seat. The Democrats need a dude to run against the republican. Shooting yourself in the foot by having a woman run is not worth the risk to the fate of the country. The handicap from the sexist assholes is just too great to overcome.

That's the frank games theory we've proven this decade.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it has been debunked that a woman or person of color is why we lost. Key to note: Anyone who was a true sexist racist piece of shit was already core maga and never, ever going to vote for any Democrat.

People must remember that nobody has polled higher against Trump -- ever -- than Michelle Obama. IF she wants to run (and a big if), she would win. Just need a tad bit more charisma.

(If anyone has any evidence whatsoever beyond speculation or shoddy N=2 statistics, I'm all ears, but I have not found evidence).

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[-] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can already see it. The DNC is going to shove this chucklefuck down our throats. I am tired of eating shit sandwiches. I don't know the answer but he is not it.

[-] Faithless@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Who cares. First get the nazi out and repair your democracy.

What democrat wins is a luxury problem you don’t have room for. Trump won not only by cheating but also by manipulating “leftists” to not vote.

Getting honest candidates is a luxury.

First repair your democracy- reisntate free press, regulate propaganda channels like X and fox , fix party financing, demand transparancy,….

Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.

[-] tmyakal@infosec.pub 28 points 1 month ago

Biden campaigned as the dragonslayer who was going to get the Nazis out and force Trump out of politics. He spent four years tripping over his own dick and letting Trump get away with everything.

Party Democrats aren't going to "repair (our) democracy." They don't want to, because doing so would jeopardize their personal economic interests.

Trump didn't trick leftists into not voting. Democrats showed that they were unable or unwilling to do anything. Harris ran the same campaign as Biden: "I'm the only one who can defeat Trump." There can't be two Only Ones!

And before you say it, I held my nose and voted for Harris. Plenty of people did. But you can't fault people for disengaging when the Democratic Party doesn't deliver on literally their only campaign promise. Not universal healthcare. Not the minimum wage. Not housing. Just "Trump bad" and "this is democracy's last chance" twice in a row.

[-] catothestoic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Voting for the lesser of two evils, over and over again, is how we got here, so nah. Do it right or let it burn.

[-] Faithless@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

No it’s not. It’s the opposite

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Agreed. Stop the bleeding first, then triage based on wounds and prognosis.

Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.

I'm fully prepared to not live long enough to see that repaired. Not that it's hopeless, but it really will take a lifetime.

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[-] Catoblepas 51 points 1 month ago

Reminder that Newsom is a snake and can go fuck himself

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 16 points 1 month ago

That's the dirty ouroboros

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Future President Gavin Newsom is a snake and can go fuck himself

Fixed it for you

[-] Catoblepas 15 points 1 month ago

He doesn’t have to be president when the primary hasn’t even happened.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But he's the Next One Up, he's already got the nomination. The primary is a formality.

The last time the DNC let a grassroots candidate take over and ruin the plans for the Next One Up, we got 8 years of a young, transformative President. They're not gonna let that happen again under their watch!

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

Uh you really didn't. Obama was pretty much business as usual save for the affordable care act and some good foreign policy decisions.

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[-] prole 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wish Obama was 1/10th as "transformational" as people like you (or conversely, Fox News) claim he was.

Dude didn't even support gay marriage until Biden kind of forced his hand on it.

Still, sadly, the best president of my lifetime. So that's just how low the bar is.

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[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This piece of giant shit fucked up California so much. He's to blame for all the fires, he stopped funding fire departments to do controlled burns and left it to the "consumers".

Also, so many whistleblowers came out from his fundraising foundation that he and his wife were embezzling funds during the Biden administration, Biden's doj launched an investigation still going on today.

He also used prison populations to fight fires as slave labor with no chance of becoming a fire fighter upon release because of their criminal records.

He regularly makes sure to cover for his habitually drunk driving asshole of an uncle, including VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER. And plays the stock market just like his corrupt cunt aunt.

He gave billionaires WATER RIGHTS to waste on growing fucking almonds that DIRECTLY CAUSED droughts in the central valley.

This fucking swamp taint needs to have his personal winery dumped with the round up he approved to dump on forests, killing any life and draining into municipal water infrastructure. He's directly causing more cancer and health issues for regular people

Newsom is JUST AS MUCH OF A FASCIST AS TRUMP.

HE SUCKS BILLIONAIRE COCK EVERYDAY, THAT'S WHY CALIFORNIA HAS THE MOST BILLIONAIRES IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY NOW.

HE FUCKING DESTROYED MY HOME STATE

[-] J_N_F@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Fuck Newsome, for sure.

To say he's just as fascist as Trump is crazy though

[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

No it's not. The dude is just as fucking corrupt and only has an eye for fascist crapitalism, he doesn't do good things at all for the people of California and has screwed up his tenure on purpose to his own benefit and the state governments. Exploiting your constituents is fucking fascist. He may not be a rapist/pedophile and in that regard and that regard only, might he a better man than the orange one.

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[-] DevDave@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago

Please for the love of god don't let this fuckhead be the Democrat Party presidential candidate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-law-online-age-checks-00606115 - Google, Meta, and OpenAI "supported" this. Does anyone really think their motive is to "protect the children"?

Age checks is a/the path to a national login system.

[-] FukOui@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Blue maga

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[-] homes@piefed.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We all knew this is coming. Gavin Newsom isn’t the lefty we thought he was, or the lefty he was pretending to be. He’s a corporate shitLib, and we can’t let him be president. Not now, not ever!

Maybe AOC isn’t all we hoped she would be (and she got me drunk at some Union Square adjacent Mexican bar when I was an undergrad, so I actually trust her), but for fucks sake, if she runs for president, I’m gonna vote for her, and I hope all of you do too!

I’d much rather she be the first woman president than that Hillary bitch. Yes, fuck Trump, but that’s already happened. AOC for the win. She made me the best margaritas I’ve ever had

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[-] tigermountain@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To say I'm extremely disappointed that the mainstream media seems to have failed us is an understatement. We have a president and senior members of his administration who are unbound by principals, morals or ethics and barely constrained by law but the media struggles to convey its dangers.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

the mainstream media is run mostly by oligarchs. Of course they're going to fail the average voter.

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[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Of course every WH press member is asking softball questions. Any reporter that isn't licking Donnie's asshole has been booted from press conferences.

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[-] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 month ago

namely, the 80-year-old president’s health

Isn't that a softball? His poor health is a good thing for everyone, not a bad thing.

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