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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsom hits back at critics:
Exactly! âIf youâve got issues with what Iâm putting out you sure as hell should have concerns with what heâs putting out as president â.
— A Wild Hair (@awildhair.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T22:43:45.458Z
#Pinks #Newsom
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TheProle
(3,586 posts)âIâm sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but heâs the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trumpâ
— Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T02:53:23.803Z
MorbidButterflyTat
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BannonsLiver
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Abstractartist
(311 posts)Whatever funny guy. Out of the hundreds and thousands of democrats serving in this country, just a handful are willing to put it on the line for the most important part of this country, its constituents. Gavin Newsom is one of them, certainly not Schumer, Pelosi, the majority of the senate and house democrats, so I welcome anything we can do to disrupt the bullshit being spread by the republicans and their kind.
popsdenver
(266 posts)Perfectly said Abstract
aocommunalpunch
(4,528 posts)Aint the same as actively shitting on them.
Scrivener7
(56,831 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,311 posts)Our democracy, freedom, country are on the line.
Scrivener7
(56,831 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,311 posts)But we have nothing to lose and at least we will go down swinging.
But yes I agree, I think it is effective so far.
Scrivener7
(56,831 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,311 posts)hard hitting strategy and that is exactly what Newsom is doing.
About time.
And yes we need a few more plans.
We didn't win WWII by wimping out and only having one idea.
ReRe
(11,785 posts)

Hieronymus Phact
(647 posts)You take some established wisdom, make an educated guess, make your pitch and see if it resonates, if not try another. Rinse, repeat, until something sticks. repubs do this all the time, remember when the big scare was critical race theory? I think that didn't play as well, maybe it sounded a little too overtly racist having race explicitly spelled out, but then they switched it out to DEI, it sounds less racist, and can include trans. They seem to have settled on this being the effective angle for them. They decided that by the responses they got, Just like advertising works.
applegrove
(127,628 posts)(pardon the pun) from Trump. He nicked the 'untouchable' Trump repeatedly. That is how to do it then people want to roll up their sleeves and take action daily to fight. It is not blood lust on the part of democrats but a desire for a just country and a leader who can dominate Trump that makes people 'git her done' (for 3.5 years straight). Everyone will have to be mobilized. Like WWII (that wasn't about bloodlust on the part of those fighting Hitler, it was what needed to be done and Churchill dominated and led the way).
Irish_Dem
(73,311 posts)And we are making a very good showing.
Whether we can defeat the evil Putin/Trump/billionaire coalition remains to be seen.
Yes many do not have the stomach for what must be done.
It brings us no pleasure to fight back brutally.
But we have no choice at this point.
And we have to do what must be done to defeat the Putin/Trump nazis.
markodochartaigh
(3,700 posts)must realize that there are various groups supporting the Republicans and different tactics will work for different groups. What works on White Christian Nationalists in Oklahoma may be different from what works on techbro libertarians in Silicon Valley. And the most that we can expect against the Republican voters may be to get them to stay home on election day. And what works on those groups may be different from what engages and educates the nonvoting one third.
And that we should all support all of these tactics.
BonnieJW
(2,992 posts)The main all consuming concern was the Great Depression. He told his advisors to try everything. If something doesn't work, try something else.
That's what we have to do. Nothing like this has ever happened in this country before. We have to keep trying.
Irish_Dem
(73,311 posts)We have to keep trying.
republianmushroom
(21,096 posts)WheelWalker
(9,349 posts)He knows there is nothing to lose. Either fight back hard and fight back now or there is no electoral future for him or anyone.
Blue Owl
(57,085 posts)Hes simply holding up a mirror to King Shitpants and his brigade of idiot mouth breathing MAGAmorons. Its their own fault that these motherfuckers need to look a little closer at themselves and what they are standing for.
chia
(2,629 posts)calimary
(87,497 posts)Random Boomer
(4,352 posts)At this point, I don't think that matters. If he can fight effectively, he has my vote. I'm tired of Democrats losing the communications war.
Godot51
(600 posts)it's OK when he does it, it's not OK when you or anyone else does it.
That's why we worship him.
littlemissmartypants
(29,089 posts)Billsdaughter
(36 posts)on the right DID NOT WORK this time.
Gavin Newsom OUR SAVIOR and his brain Camille THE BOSS Zapata & Co. unlocked LIKE NOBODY ELSE the secret to breaking Trump's ROTTING brain.
THANK YOU FOR ENJOYING THESE MATTERS!!!
bamagal62
(4,092 posts)Its funny as hell.
BidenRocks
(2,035 posts)You're so close!
You almost Have It!
Keep going!
It makes them seem above and beyond oblivious!
applegrove
(127,628 posts)Picaro
(2,169 posts)OLDMDDEM
(2,651 posts)SheltieLover
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Magoo48
(6,583 posts)We are probably better served by resisting in the most creative ways we can come up with rather than criticizing people who are doing just that.