Gavin Newsom mocks Trump with parody merch store—including $100 signed Bible
"MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS IS THE GREATEST MERCHANDISE EVER MADE. PLEASE ENJOY, AMERICA!"
Obligatory fuck Newsom, but also a signed constitution would've probably been a better statement.
Well, Trump also sold Bibles.
The EU should play his own game and funnel foreign campaign money for none-GOP people through these stores.
Of course we should have done this years ago since at this point we won't have fair elections, but for a brief moment, I was satisfied with my thought.
The EU should play his own game and funnel foreign campaign money for none-GOP people through these stores.
Why? The issue was never one of having too little money. Harris raised far more than Trump and still lost.
Shit if anything maybe taking less foreign bribes and focusing more on their citizens needs might have been a winning strategy.
Somehow, I don’t think the solution to this problem is more corruption
It's become clear republicans have no interest in playing by the rules. I'm long past the point of caring, I just want them to hurt. Corrupt away
Dems don't getit. we don't want someone who acts like Trump, we want someone who is effective in getting what they want passed like Trump.
Supreme Court members impeached starting with alito.
Healthcare for all.
Crash the housing market by imposing taxes on anything beyond a second home
Speak for yourself. I've been saying Dems should be mocking his stupid speech patterns and hyperbolic nonsense since 2016. He is ripe to be mocked, and our greatest failing has been treating his stupidity and absurdity as valid stances worthy of being debated in earnest.
By taking a high road against him we've basically destroyed ourselves and legitimized his positions via the gray fallacy.
Coulda won the election by just going around making fun of him for being dumb enough to think injecting bleach was a solution to COVID.
Also this
The point of Neoliberalism, like any other conservative ideology, is to distract from their lack of useful policy and pocket tax payer money until it collapses.
As a non American, I’m so weirded out by people hyping Newsom’s* lame trolling as the second coming of Christ.
It’s a real dumb country to dominate the world, and despite all the suffering it will involve, I’m glad it’s finally collapsing. All the best to you non-insane people living there though, I’m rooting for you (but not betting on you, yet).
*His Gen Z social media staff
Mockery is an important tool against fascists and other authoritarians. It was even used effectively against Hitler. Their power is entirely projection and something needs to break the glass.
It needs someone who doesn't hate trans people, doesn't platform fascists, and doesn't rip up homeless encampments with his bare hands. Stop acting like this guy is anything less than the scum of the earth, we can do so goddamn much better and dems are completely fucked if they pick him as candidate. Stop making him look like a valid choice
A bad leader today is better than a good leader tomorrow. Dems have had 10 years to figure out an effective strategy and developed leaders to compete against Trump, they've failed. Newsom isn't a good choice but he's the only one whose shown any effective strategy against Trump. Wtf are we supposed to do? Keep waiting while Republicans dismantle the fuel of law, democracy and the entire framework the country function on?
You could always keep doing nothing and hope things change. A lot of people chose this option. It didn’t work this time but who knows….
If we get an election in 2028 and Gavin is the stinker propped up against whatever Trump 2.0 is going to be, we can try not voting again and see if things change.
Cool. So to clarify:
Remember Bernie and his horde of young male Bernie Bros supporters?
Remember Mamdani and his horde of Republican supporters?
Yeah. Dems just need policies that made these candidates popular if they want young male and Republican voters.
Instead, they fight these candidates harder than any Republican.
Maybe if Democrats want votes they should do more of what makes them popular, not what brings popularity to Trump.
Until then, it's no surprise they're struggling with respect because they've done nothing but ignore what works for their constituents in favor of what works for Trump. Eventually there will be no difference in behavior at all, which is basically where we are now.
Imo, the better strategy would simply be for every Dem to abandon the party, and instead register as Republican. Trump reformed the entire GOP in 10 years because they have no rules for who they'll let into the party. Seeing as there's far more registered Democrats in the country than republicans, and the GOP is a lot weaker towards reformation because of Trump, taking them over with progressives and progressive policies would just be putting condidates in place who don't lie to their GOP constituents.
Honestly, if you want progress, Democrats should start a movement to abandon their party and reform the GOP into the organization it used to be. INCLUDING Democrat candidates. You want to take advantage of gerrymandering? Do it as the GOP instead of fighting them.
This is basically what Russia did to the GOP and in its shape, it would not at all be hard to take it back. And once the GOP isn't all foreign agents promoting an media echo chamber working for a dictator, there's no more evil party the Dems have to fight.
Taking on Trump from the outside has literally never worked. And in the last 20 years, the GOP has undone almost 100 years of American and Democratic policy.
So take them over with non insane Americans, and the GOP bullshit ends.
If you fight them as Democrats, they just get stronger, because Democrats just fight with words.
Not that this will ever happen. But it's by far the best option America has for moving forward.
Newsom isn't a good choice but he's the only one whose shown any effective strategy against Trump.
Effective how? Has Gavin kept a single innocent person out of jail, funded a single defunded program, protected a single city from Guard occupation?
What has Gavin created except ChatGPT imitations of Trump tweets and AI image slop? What has Gavin done except promote himself?
Gavin's not effective opposition. He just paid TikTok enough money to promote his meme shit that he looks viral. And his bullshit is going to last just about as long as "Kamala is brat" or Walz calling people "weird" did.
Mamdani has shown us an effective strategy, too. Stand for the people. Actually run on the fucking left. Don't just talk shit about Trump - actually oppose his policies. And convince working class Americans you really do stand with them, so they don't turn to right wing populist scumbags out of sheer desperation to be heard.
But that's not going to happen. Because the dirty Democrat secret is that the DNC leadership agrees with most of Trump's positions. They just want to implement them more politely.
Every time proper left wing policy is offered to Americans, you vote it down. Progressive policy does not fly in the US.
Your country has abandoned you GI, why donate your time and effort to a nation that only takes? Defect GI, migrate to a nation that appreciates your labour. Come to Australia! We have nationalised health care, some of the highest wages in the world, the best electoral system in the world, and Melbourne constantly ranking as one the best cities in the world.
Guys keep on shitting on Gavin. I didn't think we have enough screeching at each other for mid terms or even the next president.
We need to make sure everyone passes our purity test. Better trump than a moderate Democrat!
Purity tests will be the end of Democracy.
While citizens skip voting, vote third party, and prop up weak candidates the authoritarian in chief will spend his final days on a throne Robert Baratheon style. Hopefully he’s gored by a pig sooner rather than later.
I appreciate newsom I just dont trust him, hes got a weird energy. Probably wouldnt be the worst/best president though, who knows.
Let's see how much of a lateral move it is from a rapist felon for them.
I'm just trying to not have military invasions of states.
Gavin is a piece of shit. This is not a purity test, we just don't want a piece of shit pitted against trump for the fourth election in a row. Stop dickriding a man who personally rips up homeless encampments, we can do so fucking much better and showing him support now, when there's not even a fucking election, just proves your don't give anything close to a flying fuck about homeless people or trans people and think platforming fascists is totally ok
That'll teach the fascists! - Libs everywhere
Ridiculing them is an effective tool yes, just not the only thing that needs to happen
"Let's not fight back and just let the fascists do whatever they want" -useful idiots everywhere
It’s better to do nothing at all! - far left socialists everywhere.
And yet somehow are the same people that shout "Get organised" the loudest
If you buy this shit you’re a fucking tool
that'll show him!
Leave it to Lemmy to hate everything and everyone while doing jackshit themselves.
Edit: I take it back, you do jack shit, you downvote people who call you out on it. Bunch of complainers. Go be the change you want to see in the world or shut up. Now’s the time for it.
Very well put! Thank you. More people need to understand how the concept of nuance works and how to apply it to the reality they live in.
They voted (and didn’t vote) based entirely on their wishful thinking of a perfect world in which everything they hate is solved by one person.
And they still didn’t learn from it.
Newsom is a neoliberal snake that is doing a “hey fellow kids” approach to Trump. Mocking Trump by imitating him is just getting him made fun of in right wing spaces. I doubt it will do much besides get some centrist billionaire apologizing Dems a micro dopamine hit on social media. I say all this, but if he is the 2028 nominee, then so be it and I will vote for him because purity tests are not helping anyone.
You guys complain that democrats don’t step up to trump, the moment one does, you tear him down. No wonder the American left is fucked, you guys are so toxic now that nobody is good enough to be an ally. There’s no such thing as a step forward anymore. You guys would rather have trump and play the victim. You’re all fucked and you deserve it
He isn't going to address anything that actually draws people to Trump. America needs radical change, which Newsom is not advocating for. Newsome is popular with rich donors to the DNC. He is NOT popular with people across the country. He's going to run the same campaign Clinton, Biden, and Harris all ran, will get absolutely pummeled, and then all of you will go right back to blaming leftists.
I don’t necessarily disagree with your final point. As an American, I’m of the opinion that we are currently getting exactly what we asked for, damning as that fact might be about the American people. Regardless, though, the reason we complain about people like Newsom is because he is cut from the very same neoliberal (read: conservative anywhere other than the US) cloth that ratcheted us to this position in the first place. There’s a nonzero risk that with him as the rising star, he could be yet another uninspiring Democratic candidate who fails to galvanize the American people into actually showing up for once in our fucking lives, and I worry that even if we somehow pull ourselves out of this spiral, we may end up back here again in a decade or two
Make no mistake, I understand necessity perfectly well, and, presidentially, I would happily cling to Newsom like a drowning man at the moment if I had the chance, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be criticized as a figurehead of the left, because he’s not really representative of the left, nor is he necessarily even on the left in the first place. Still, there’s really no time to purity test right now, and purity testing something like this is, to me, absurd. I’d happily take a “turncoat” Republican (so long as it’s one of the less morally bankrupt of the lot, at least) as an ally in this fight, so why the hell not Newsom?
I am glad he is doing the actual sort of thing democrats should have been doing for the couple decades and realizing the political moment and utilizing political power to try and redistrict. But I'm not going to fawn over a different flavor of fascist because of his twitter clap backs and merch store.
This isn't a purity test, newsome is just a massive piece of shit and he shouldn't be getting all the praise he's getting just for owning drumpf epic style. We're not toxic bc we don't want a president who rips up homeless camps, you're toxic bc you're already insisting that we fall in like and show him our unconditional support. You will lose the election if he's your candidate, and you will deserve it
Bingo!
Lol
REAL MERCH for TRUE CONSUMERS. I cannot believe that GAVIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
I have always been partial to the red "Made You Look (black lives matter)" hats myself.
Toss some of those bad boys on there!!!
Oh I love that!