Fell for it again.

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I don't know who else they'd run that isn't as functionally demonic, but I don't see Newsom's current PR push lasting. He's too weird and off-putting for a national stage. He always looks like the opening scene of American Psycho and always sounds like he's giving the same monologue. Pete Buttigieg's policy platform was standard
, but his energy is so negatively abnormal that the public rejected him immediately. When the media gave him outsized promotion in the 2020 primaries, all it did was expose more people to a person they instinctively dislike.
- The problem with Democrats these days is when they get up to the podium in debates and say that "I am going to do what Trump is going to do but a bit watered down and a little bit woke" it doesn't grab anyone.
  
  They're all ideologically terrible, but I think he's uniquely the worst aesthetically. He looks like he's playing the devil in a bad 1990s movie.
- He's Clinton-coded, but unlike ol' Bill he lacks the affable charm that would make anyone in middle America trust him.
- I disagree on the strongest terms. MSM managed to get a corpse nominated in 2020 largely by repeating ad nauseam that he's electable. Then the corpse won basically unopposed due to COVID19 giving Don just enough rope to hang himself.
  
  They ran Biden in 2020 sure, but then people actually saw Joe Biden doing public appearances and it was so detrimental to the party that they spent four years hiding him and gaslighting the public. When they ran him in 2024 without the COVID bump, they knew he was going to lose. They swapped him out for a female clone, faced immense backlash because she would have lost another primary vote (and she was the first to have to drop out in 2020), and lost every swing state because nobody in Ohio likes a polished Californian astroturf person.
  However bad things are in 2028, that's three more years of democrats like Newsom alienating their electorate by being like him. 2020 proved that Old Gavin Newsom won't do a thing about COVID except lie and cheat the public out of relief funds. In 2024 we knew the economy was about to implode and the country was committing a genocide, but Female Gavin Newsom didn't win because everyone knew she was going to be No Rizz Hitler.
  If you want to hedge your bets on history repeating rather than rhyming, base that off 2024 instead of 2020. 2024 is when they tried the same trick twice. 2028 is when they try the same trick three times and I can afford even fewer groceries.
  
  The 2020 primary was more complicated than that.
  Biden was dead in the water until the eve of Super Tuesday. Bernie had a strong lead coming out of the early states despite the best efforts of the media. Then you had Obama coordinate the centrist candidates to drop out and endorse Biden, and the media was happy to treat that as normal and good. And all that might not have been enough, but then Covid hit, Bernie suspended his campaign, and Biden told all his elderly supporters to go out and vote anyway.
  The media is a big factor, but it was not calling the shots in 2020. That was Obama more than any one person, and all the weirdness of the early pandemic was a huge X factor.

1 example: Newson has made roof top solar insanely hard to get in California because he wants utility grade solar. He wants business controlling power, not individuals.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2025/07/rooftop-solar-grid-power-green-permits/

Remember when liberals were creaming when Kamala and co. (rightly) called Republicans weird and it was such an epic own it went viral? And then her party got demolished in the ensuing election? Feels like yesterday.
- Haha, that brief two or three week period after Harris replaced Biden and the media pivoted HARD into hopeful optimism for our girlboss heroine. They suddenly backtracked from their months long defense of Biden's cognitive decline and then admitted he was too mentally frail to survive another presidency but here comes a vibrant new replacement to crush Orange Man! And Dems fell for it hard, with poll numbers showing a resurgence of hope for victory. And then the assassination attempt on Trump derailed everything. I think they still would have lost, but there wouldn't be as dramatic of a shift in sentiment without it.
  
  The trump assassination attempt was before Kamala replaced Biden.

I was taking them more seriously when they were proposing Stephen Colbert

Fell for what? A ploy to capture their support? The average Usian liberal doesn't pay enough attention to not follow where the current's headed. Newsom was practically unbelievable until this farce for the same reason Harris was before the VP pick, they've done a shit job in California of all places.
I'm annoyed by how obvious and heavy-handed it is this time, but if 2020 wasn't obvious enough for Usians, they'll bite again and again and again.
- Hogs in slop

Newsom is quite literally just copying and pasting Trump’s formula with an appeal to liberals. Amazing how people fall for this shit

can't we have something nice?
- Newsom's out there throwing homeless peoples' stuff into dumpsters as a photo op, he's a flesh eating ghoul that wants "harming people" to be part of his branding
- "Can't we have something nice, like homeless concentration camps?"
  
  username checks out

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