
If “we should spend less time talking about pronouns and more time talking about the issues that matter to people” feels to you like throwing queer people under the bus, you missed the point and desperately need to go outside and change your voter registration to something the fuck out of my party. You are holding us back and we are better off without you.
Okay but he is right. Spend less time talking about it but still be clear that you’ll support the queer community through policy, advertise yourself on the Dems’ objectively better average economic outcomes, take back government power and then do what we need to do. The reality is the average American cares infinitely more about their wallet than they do queer people. It’s not throwing queer people under the bus to change your marketing strategy while keeping your actual policy stance the same.
I don’t live in California, but I know who Gavin Newsom is. Whether we like it or not, that kind of name recognition matters when it comes to your typical, uneducated, and otherwise uninterested voter. Bro is literally trying to resist one of the most outwardly evil and dystopian administrations that we’ve seen in U.S. history and this is the bone that some of y’all decide to pick with him? Discuss policy. Weigh his politics against those of the Christian nationalists. Anything besides this.
But that’s not what this is? He’s not saying to abandon the culture war… he’s saying to side with the right in the culture war. This is a false dichotomy you’re presenting, he wants to give a free pass basically to the people trying to build concentration camps for gays and minorities because it’s not “a real issue”
I originally took that as him meaning less time should be devoted towards talking about it to the public. I still think LGBTQ issues should be a priority in their policies, but the rhetoric around that seems to harm their popularity. The average person still has the economy as their top priority, so democrats should make that the biggest priority in both policy and rhetoric. That doesn’t mean they should stop caring about LGBTQ people entirely
I didn’t say it was. I don’t even think anyone’s alleging that. My point is that many people don’t feel heard, and you can prioritize an issue that affects everyone, trans or cis. If anything, trans people are likely more vulnerable to economic problems because housing, credit, etc discrimination against them is still legal
Because we are two and a half years out from a Presidential election that not one person has announced their candidacy for, nine months from what could conceivably be one of the largest landslide midterms in American history that could set the next President up to be the most legislatively successful executive in history, and you are already running the opps fucking smear campaigns. Literally rope.
I must have missed the part where he said we should ban hormones and stack the court to overturn Obergefell and not pass equal pay, that’s crazy. You are so far up your own ass that you’ve forgotten the false equivalence you made up to feel better about bashing Democrats was false to begin with.
Smear campaign? It’s all true, it’s literally just what he said. Why are Blue MAGA anointing a right wing, reaganite scumbag as the democratic nominee? Do you think hitching our wagon to unpopular, conservative do-nothings will help us win this year and in 2028? The same people who have caused our party to have a 13% approval rating because they refuse to lift a finger to even try and resist MAGA?
Where did I say he was the same as Republicans? (Hint: I fucking didn’t). I said he’s conservative, and that he changes his beliefs like he changes clothes, because he’s a slimy corporate politician. Do you really want this guy as our only alternative to more Trump? Already forgot his racist remarks about black people last week?
Fair point. They didn’t mention it much after 2022. They claimed Harris was woke because of something she said in 2019. I would prefer if all dems (Newsom included) stayed away from the sports issue though. I don’t see what’s wrong with just saying the government shouldn’t be dictating how gender divisions in sports work, especially with a blanket rule for all sports
I don’t hate what he says at all, sounds pretty based to me, but I’m not hyperfixated on trans bathrooms at the exclusion of everything else. I’m not sorry, some people are going to feel left behind, but it’s time to shift our attention as a party away from the things that you care about and back to the things that 90% of America cares about more. Choo choo.
Yeah because you’re a reactionary. Democrats already don’t talk about trans issues. Newsom basically goes out of his way to shout “I hate the tr*nnies” at every opportunity. It’s literally a non issue that for as much as he supposedly wants to get “back to basics” he can’t seem to stop talking about.
The fact that you can hallucinate racism from that clip when it’s very clearly not what was being said, not said to a black audience, pretty perfectly summarizes what I mean. You, actual Blue MAGA, are counter factually predisposed to absolutely shitting down the throat of any prospective candidate who is not a literal fucking commie, if Bernie ran and you remembered he was Jewish you would fucking abandon him too, and the country would be a better place if you lost your voting rights.
He was having a discussion with Andre Dickens, who is black, but the allegations of racism come from conservative influencers (ironically). What he actually said doesn’t come across as racist, but just didn’t seem worded well either I’m not sure what Bernie being Jewish has to do with this…
He literally said (to a black audience and ostensibly to the highly educated black man across from him) “i’m like you, i’m a 960 sat guy”. He literally outed himself as considering black people stupid or at best uneducated… He’s a liability… a conservative, dishonest liability. Just run Andy Bashear or J. B. Pritzker, they are competent, sincere and very popular in the states they govern, and don’t have a mountain of bigotry related baggage like Newsom does (not to mention atrocious
It definitely comes off as a racially questionable. Like c’mon “i’m like you, i had a low sat score” while talking to a black man with a chemical engineering degree from a well respected engineering school. it’s at best condescending. even if you want to be charitable to him, do we want our candidate that makes these kinds of speaking blunders?
I don’t think he said it’s “low”. When you take it into context with “I’m like you, not better than you” and the fact that 960 is just below average (currently 1020-ish), he was probably trying to convey that he’s an average person and not trying to come across as better than the audience. He definitely didn’t do a good job of it though 😭