Gavin Newsom took a surprising stand on Israel. His next move was depressingly predictable.

But the high fives from MAGAt would be golden. Edit: to stay on topic, we should make the hat and send it to Newsome [REDACTED] Make America Great Again 2026 Copy their font, stars, and all.

"No guys really it'll work this time I swear just one more neolib the republicans are bad enough that people will totally hold their noses trust me" That's the spirit.

I still think it’s extremely hard to argue that Democrats failed in 2016. Hillary Clinton was a great candidate, she dedicated her entire life to public service, she was more qualified and prepared to lead the country on day 1 than anyone to ever seek the office. The American people failed in 2016, just like we failed again in 2024. I know that’s not a great political message, but too many people keep holding it against Democrats for not being able to fix mistakes they never actually made. Obviously we should have high standards for our leaders, we should demand better from Democratic leaders, but we need the American electorate to be better too.

How did the democrats fail in 2024 exactly?

Oh, Biden should have never “changed his mind” and entertained a second term. The “sleepy old dude” stuff was already sticking to him, and all it took was one debate on NyQuil and suddenly it was true to the public. Biden needed to do what he said he’d do and be a one term president. He had too much baggage to run again, even if he was legitimately doing a pretty good job on everything but the “hold criminals accountable” front. But when he dropped out once we were close enough to the elections that debates were underway, the DNC was forced into a problem with no good solutions. Primary season had already come and gone, that whole thing is WEIRDLY codified, and any spirited debate would have left them even less time to try and get approval to coalesce around their candidate. Was Harris the right choice? Apparently not. But I can understand the calculus there. Don’t know how accurate it is (and strangling themselves with made up rules of order is the Democratic brand at this point) but they said the only way their rules would let them keep the Biden war chest was if someone on that ticket was running. And waltz was a decent VP pick, and honestly did a better job on the campaign trail than Harris. The outcome sucks, but the situation sucked. Biden gave us Trump 2.0. First by appointing an almost criminally centrist person to slow roll the investigation, and finally by deciding to run IN HIS 80s when his age had already been a subject of discussion his entire first term, and however many little micro-betrayals in between. I understand the logic that lead to the decisions, but it’s bone headed logic if it lets one side cheat and binds the other side so tightly to the rules that they can’t even eject the cheater from the game. And look, I’m gonna fight like hell during the primaries to get someone other than Newsom through the process. “Hates Trump” cannot be the only qualification someone has. I don’t think any of the 16 fuckers who will probably turn up to run are campaigning to keep Trump into office. Not unless Jill Stein switches parties. Hates Trump isn’t president material. Going forward, it should be the basic price of admission to any political process. I don’t want anyone who looks at the last year and a half and goes “good governance” to be allowed to pick an appetizer for the table, let alone make decisions for the whole country.

You go with the candidate that gives you the best shot of winning. If you lose a senate seat because of it, that sucks, but it is what it is.

He's polling pretty well and without trump on the ballot, maga is less likely to show up. Dems have been doing well lately with solid red districts.

They take bribes from all the same people. They do the bidding of the same lobbies and corporations. They make backroom deals so no matter who's in charge, donors get everything and the people get nothing. They're not fighting back against the Republicans AT ALL. Idk which "our side" you're referring to. My side is the American people, and if a politician is corrupt and willing to sell out the people, they are the enemy. Period end of story.

"advocating" with an unequivocal statement that you wouldn't vote for newsome unless (insert purity test here). You obviously haven't been paying attention to how bad the Republicans are. I implore you to read up on it.