No Congress abdicated its duty and so did the Supreme Court. If they were doing their jobs Sit like this wouldn’t happen.

So good

Jerry Brown was an awesome governor fiscally, and I don’t remember anything weird on social issues front. I really wished he was younger in 2020.

The tea party was my wakeup call, before that I was a Republican because I was Christian, my dad was Republican and I didn’t pay too much attention. The more attention I paid the further left I became. The tea party was so obviously dumb and racist it forced me to evaluate my political beliefs.

I started talking mine on the weekend too and I sleep a lot better now. Ignore that this comment was at 2:42 am I just had a new kid and fear the wrath of my post-partum wife for not helping enough at night.

Even if Newsome skews transphobic he will be infinitely better than any Republican on the issue. We can beat up Newsome all we want now but if he “wins” the nominee acting like he’s the devil incarnate is a really dumb position to take. I would prefer a ton of other people over him but he won’t be pushing insane policies like the right is.

In the grand scheme of things I don’t think Jon Stewart wouldn’t be that different from Gavin Newsome as president. I’d prefer Stewart 100x more than Newsome, just on a personality level, but the direction of the office would be pretty much the same. Newsome is a slimeball but he’s not the worst Dem option on the progressiveness & electable matrix. I’m pretty sure Stewert isn’t to far from Newsome on the spectrum overall. I’d much rather have AOC personally. I think she’s far to the left of either Jon and Newsome.

It was probably his press people

I shaved my head clean, I’m pretty luckly I’ve got a great head shape for a bicked head. Unfortunately I did it just to see and I have a really full head of hair at 42. I’ll never get to share my beautiful bald head with the world.

The 2nd one isn’t bad if it wasn’t trump and he hadn’t said all the creepy things about her or raped other little girls and women.

Dungeon crawl classic, start with 3-5 level 0 chars each and hope the best rolled character survives the initial onslaught. Using magic is dangerous, a miscast spell could leave you disfigured or worse. Thick boy rule book.

Why isn’t he getting in trouble for hiring undocumented workers.

Yeah no shit but I’d rather vote for slow progress than deal with the rapid decline of social and economic freedom under Republican rule. Railing against Democrats like Newsome especially after primaries happen is fucking foolish.

I’m not abandoning my convictions, I’ll vote for the Democrat I think most aligns with my beliefs in the primary which I’m hoping is AOC. If my candidate doesn’t win I will vote for the person I think is better to run the country(just a wild guess but it won’t be the Republican candidate). The green party/Jil Stein doesn’t interest me at all.

If Gavin Newsome is the Democratic candidate, he will be the only viable voting choice. I’d only be abandoning my convictions if I didn’t vote, or voted for an option that has zero chance of winning.

Voting for a candidate that won’t possibly win is not a viable choice. It improves the odds of the person who is counter to all my convictions winning instead of 1/2 of them.

I’m not saying that the DNC isn’t wrong about their approach to getting voters, but the worst option is for them to back a candidate like Newsome without the charisma aka Kamala Harris.

If Kamala was running with Bernie’s platform she probably wins a close race. If Newsome ran on Bernie’s platform it’s probably a landslide. Him running kamala’s platform it’s probably a narrow victory. I think AOC would win by less than Newsome if they were both running her platform, because misogyny, but still wins pretty big overall in the general.

It’s called pragmatism. Democrats might not be great as a whole but at least their policies generally trend in the right direction and things slowly get better with Democrats like him vs a rapid decline when Republicans get control. I’m not willing to burn it all down, if the other choice is slow improvement. I think he’s a true politician, which I find a distasteful trait, but mostly he’s been a decent governor and it’s really been his rhetoric lately, trying to appeal to the right, I really don’t like about him. I have young children. I can’t torch my life being radical, even if I generally lean to the far left of the spectrum.

He’s 100% the DNC guy, he’ll probably have signs that say it’s his turn. Only semi good thing is he’ll have a much better chance of winning than Hillary or Kamala had. AOC is the best choice and has the best chance of winning imo. Gavin is probably the 2nd best choice(electability-wise).

Trump is charismatic to low IQ and racist people and has a ton of propaganda being churned out on social media. Also right wing voters are more consistent getting out to vote and will almost always rally behind their guy. If gore had any personality he would have smoked bush who while not exactly charismatic he was someone people “could have a beer with”. Carter wasn’t very charismatic but probably the best person to hold the office and won on the back of Nixon and Watergate, much like Biden winning after Trump’s first term.

It’s the apathetic voters/ moderates that get on board with charisma. The right has a far more dependable base when it comes to getting out to vote. I think newsome is a scumbag but he’s a much more electable candidate than Harris. His shift to the right recently is gross and is the opposite of what Dems need. I have never liked him as a person but I used to generally agree with his positions, and was far more ok with him running before the last 8 mo or so. AOC would be a better candidate than him, she would inspire people to vote and I think she can overcome the the misogyny and racism by getting a bigger number to vote. Newsome could probably win but would be pulling more votes from Rs than he would bringing more votes to the table.

Honestly it’s charisma more than anything. JFK, Johnson Clinton, gore doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it, Obama has it, Hillary doesn’t have it, Biden doesn’t really but post trump litterally a walking corpse worked. Kamala doesn’t have it, and people have goldfish memories.

No states 1 country. Otherwise we’d have our own Mississippi and Arkansas out in bum fucksville