Why is fucking Newsom, the most neoliberal establishment motherfucker to ever walk the earth, the first Dem to figure out you can take these assholes down by just using their tactics against them?
It’s like if Pelosi just walked down onto the the chamber floor and just started yelling “okay boomer” every time someone tried to talk, while going the fortnight dance.
I don’t know, I think Tim Waltz figured it out and then the Harris campaign shut him down. The whether or not it works or not I’m not sure. Certainly doesn’t look like anything’s been taken down.
TL;DR: calling fascists weird was and is EXTREMELY effective messaging and pivoting away from it was probably one of the top reasons for Trump being able to infest the white house again.
I think Tim Waltz figured it out and then the Harris campaign shut him down
100%. Without a shadow of a doubt. Never underestimate the ability of the DNC to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in order to please the owner donors and/or uphold arbitrary institutional norms.
The whether or not it works or not I’m not sure.
It ABSOLUTELY worked. Harris/Walz were far ahead in the polls while they were still calling weirdos weird and then they nosedived when they switched from that to the 1992 playbook.
The Trump messaging works by convincing people that the fascists are the only normal ones/the in group in a world taken over by abnormal and immoral people of the out groups
Even SUGGESTING that they might be just another out group rather than the only in group weakens the “everything our Dear Leaders say or do is correct because it’s against the weirdos” narrative and more importantly the feeling of belonging and of being on the right side of history that the leaders of the cult has instilled in the followers.
Regular people have no problem being called weird (in fact, a lot of us actively celebrate our weirdness), but a fascist movement simply falls apart without the solid conviction that they’re the only sane and normal ones.
This went a little longer than I intended, so I’ll add a TL;DR at the top lol
Well said!
Just give me a fucking fair primary, please. I’m going to lose my goddamn mind if they ram Newsom through like they did with Clinton and Biden.
It depends on how much contempt they have for electorate. And their propensity to learn anything.
If they won’t learn on their own, they must be taught.
Didn’t learn much from 2016.
I don’t like these odds
So in other words, Newsom IS going to be the nominee unless Hakeem Jeffries somehow becomes presidential material by developing a personality between now and 2028.
LFG!!! Remember how “weird” almost took him out? This mud fight is long overdue. America could be the first country to resolve a civil war fought entirely through memes.
Newsom is going hard right now and I love it.
Probably some kid in the office making the memes and it getting signed off on… Where was this when Biden was in office ?
TBF, biden is 82 years old and has cancer. He should have probably never been running in the first place.
All over his Twitter? Pretty sure there were plenty of Dark Brandon memes, like the “just like we drew it up” tweet after the Super Bowl.
Yeah, he had a gen Z social media coordinator coming up with some pretty good anti-Trump memes for a while. But then they just kinda stopped.
Hakeem Jeffries got offended and started screeching about decorum.
It’s some lib zoomer named Camille Zapata.
he needs a team for this?
Still being focus group tested. Need to make the meme cringe enough to spread, but still push their messaging while avoiding any solid policies.
That halo over Hogan’s head is the biggest mistake I’ve seen from AI so far
Gotta appeal to who this is intended for
Nah, that’s just a floating ring light to make it look professional
Who dat on stage left?
Fucker Carlson
Who dat on stage right?
Kid Rock.
Kid Rock
Lol, stage left is the actual left when we are the viewer. Carlson is stage right.
If it comes to Newsom against Trump in the 2028 general elections, I’m writing in “Fuck America” on my ballot, since there are no current frontrunner candidates in either party who will defend my rights. But wow he made an ai slop meme. That’ll show 'em.
Save us the trouble and just don’t show up if your going to throw.
If Newsom is the candidate, the race will have already been thrown.
They count those as a vote for Trump. :)
Even more reason such a weak candidate can’t be allowed to win the primary. Putting forward such a weak platform and demanding the base hold their noses didn’t work in 2024, so why would it work again? Why leave things up the chance when every vote supposedly counts? 🙃
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I mean its funny, but if he would actually do something, you know, meaningful, that would be cool.
What does “meaningful” mean to you?
he should start by doing what he already proposed doing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386
So, nothing he can personally accomplish is what you would like him to do.
he could probably accomplish a lot of things if he actually wanted to.
