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I make a good chunk of the posts on the Ukraine sopuli community to pro-Ukrainian news coverage, you could not have picked a worse lazy accusation to throw clumsily in my direction. Check my post history, and next time think before you type :)

Two years prior to an election, you’re already salivating over anyone that isn’t him. You done even know who that is- but NOT Gavin is clearly your angle here

Right, now is too early and later will be too late I know how this one goes…

Never said I refused to vote, never said the candidate had to be perfect.

What you seem to refuse to understand is that we have far better options than Gavin Newsom both from a policy standpoint and an electability standpoint.

Get out of here with your accusations I have some weird purity test, I am applying basic political competency standards here and Gavin desperately fails them.

Yes me the poster who vomits up article links to pro-Ukrainian news almost every day is a Russian bot.

Lol facepalm

Im not holding out for a perfect candidate, I am holding out for a candidate that isn’t worse than useless as far as the objective of winning is concerned.

Are you not reading my words? How many times do I have to say this?

Gavin will lose, that is that reality, I am trying to be proactive and raise awareness so we can put our energy into candidates and movements that actually have a fighting chance.

The articles I linked specifically point out Gavin’s failures on housing and healthcare, so yeah that is very much a start and nothing else.

I am trying to get us to win by having a candidate that actually has a chance, which Gavin doesn’t because the more everybody learns about him nationally the less people like him, what the hell are you trying to do?

Wow wtf what why that is like shooting yourself in the foot before a track race…?

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/06/governor-newsom-proclaims-ronald-reagan-day/

I have linked to three articles that exhaustively detail how much of a shill Gavin is, so no, all I have is not just insults and slogans. I have evidence and I am sharing it because the idea of Gavin sending us straight to hell with his conception of “moderate” terrifies me.

Fuck Republicans, I am not a Republican. Fuck Trump, Fuck JD, Fuck Trump’s Whole Cabinet. I despise Gavin because he is precisely who Republicans want to run against to make their jobs easier.

Ok? Gavin is a false alternative to them and is dangerous because he only superficially appears to be an alternative.

I think so, or rather I think that the average US voter aligns more with Gavin Newsom’s policies than with the policies of a hypothetical alternative candidate that Salon might prefer.

I know you think that, paradoxically many people do but you are wrong that is my point.

This leads to a second strike against Newsom: California has struggled during his time as governor, which began in 2019. It is one of just seven states that has experienced a net population loss since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, shedding 91,000 residents—more than any state except New York. One of the biggest culprits has been the state’s unaffordability. California has long been one of the most expensive states to live in, a reality that has only grown worse in the last five years.

It’s important to note that Newsom has recently worked to reduce red tape and accelerate the construction of new housing to lower home prices. But rather than taking a cue from another Democrat on the rise, Zohran Mamdani—who, despite his own vulnerabilities, has adopted an almost monomaniacal focus on cost-of-living issues in his New York City mayoral campaign—Newsom hasn’t touted these efforts nearly as much and has instead pivoted to picking fights with national Republicans.

This is a troubling development, especially as Americans have identified inflation as the most important issue facing the country for the last three years, and many voters, including pivotal swing voters, voted for Trump with cost of living at top of mind last year. Come 2028, with Trump out of the picture, how does Newsom plan to respond to critics of his management of the state?

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/democrats-can-do-better-than-gavin

I voted for Kamala, asshat.

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Look at his policies fool, he is a Democrat In Name Only.

Do you think the average US voter alligns with Gavin Newsom’s policies? This isn’t about being progressive it is about Gavin not having popular policy positions nor a track record that would give nervous voters confidence.

Oh no, now all the comments on this thread are going to read out in my internal voice artificially fast and it will make everyone sound smarmy af.

We need people to speak strongly, but not be insane.

We need people to speak to the urgency and existential nature of this moment. Yeah I don’t literally support tar and feathering Gavin. Yes calling for violence is bad, fine I disagree with that but that is a five alarm fire moment so I’m less inclined to clamp down on that phrasing in this context. I am far more scared of the implications of Gavin playing a spoiler in this election.

Ok but this is unhelpful lazy speculation, actually do some research on AOC, if anything Gavin Newsom is a major gamble to US voters with his inability to even rhetorically much less materially fight back against billionaires, which is a bipartisan liability in the next presidential election the size of a large battleship according to polling.

You mean he does fine as the WWE kfabe opponent to Trump who performs the character of a resistance fighter on stage right?