Anything to take him down, he’s becoming too popular. He didn’t fuck any kids on a pedophile island though, so if my choices are pedophiles or a guy who once supported Reagan, I gotta go with the recovering Reagan supporter.
Fascist praises fascist, go figure.
Whoopsie, just another accidental support of fascism. Surely this time he’ll apologize and not do it again, until his podcast needs more clicks.
Governor of the richest state in the US supports ideologies that favor the rich: shocking.
Moving to the right in preparation for a POTUS run. It never works and just plays right into the Ruling Party’s hands.
I would argue it does work for attaining the presidency. Because that’s what the oligarchs want to see
Just like his tactical vetos of popular bills or ballot measures!
Or his time praising right wing podcasters and media personalities
Owner class pulling the strings… per usual.
Newsom is a neoliberal his policies are literally based on Ronald Reagan’s legacy of screwing the working class
Who should run for president instead?
AOC or Ro Kahna https://www.trackaipac.com/2028
Fair enough
It really sucks the way they treated AIDS initially. I still know elders who believe it is a divine punishment for gays. So many people died needlessly because of this.
This doesn’t even scratch the surface of the American genocide known as the war on drugs though. Millions of lives lost and tens of millions of families destroyed. All completely preventable.
They knew all along the right thing to do, but they had to go after the poor and minorities. It was one of the most disgusting representation of oppression and classism in modern times.
This is barely a fucking article about anything. Don’t fall for this dumb social media garbage bullshit.
But it angers the kids, so it’s gospel around here. They’ll be pasting this article in every argument they can manufacture for a least a week or two.
Taking one for the gipper, eh?
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My guess is it’s half same old attempts/mistakes of trying to give a bridge to a way off the MAGA ship. There are A LOT of voters who believe Reagan did good things for the economy, and his economic policy directly conflicts with MAGA’s pro tariff policies.
It’s not likely to help many Republicans see things as wrong, and is very likely to make possible voters who would vote for a good Democrat candidate to question them.
Newsom isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive virtues and certainly would continue to benefit from trickle-down policies.
It’s not hard to imagine that he actually likes Reagan’s policies here, never mind that his corporate donors gave him his marching orders.
Oh I wasn’t saying Newsom would be a good candidate, I was just trying to say they were likely trying the same dumb things. I haven’t seen much of Newsoms policies because I don’t live in California.
Which policies has he enacted in CA which mirror or support trickle down? All I ever hear is how he’s not progressive enough, but when I look at his record I see a LOT of progressive action. Much like how he’s “anti trans” for not signing 1 bill, he signed numerous others that year protecting queer people, and now he’s being attacked for being too pro-trans.
It’s pretty funny watching the left split and splinter this far out, because of all the purity testing. No one will ever be progressive enough, pure enough. And if somehow they were perfect enough to appease the left wing, there’d be 0 chance of getting red votes.
The next Dem who gets elected will do so using some centrist attitudes including towards social issues which we’re losing on badly. Might be time to get wise to that.
It’s like the old saying - do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Should we wait for the perfect candidate, or should we, IDK, maybe try to win the next election?
His first podcast guest was Charlie Kirk, and he agreed with him about trans people. He is anti trans. Just because he isn’t advocating for us to be rounded up and put in camps like the Republicans, doesn’t mean he supports trans people.
Which policies has he enacted in CA which mirror or support trickle down? All I ever hear is how he’s not progressive enough, but when I look at his record I see a LOT of progressive action
Because locking up homeless people is a) totally effective policy making and b) totally progressive.
more directly, to the economy, his buddy-buddy relationship with the techbros is… obvious.
- 25 million to help fund a microchip design facility,
- 85 million on generative ai
- downsizing a deal with google to protect local-to-ca newsrooms
while when faced with a ballooning deficit, instead cut healthcare, education, and enviromental programs.
Further, He dropped the ball on his promises and only signed a small handful of progressive goals. for example, allowing striking union members to collect unemployment benefits. The most common excuse was “oh we can’t necessarily afford that, and employers can’t either.”
Remember: Tweets are not policy… and all this fun shit trolling trump probably isn’t even him tweeting it. (most likely, he’s only scarcely aware of it at all.)
It’s pretty funny watching the left split and splinter this far out, because of all the purity testing. No one will ever be progressive enough, pure enough. And if somehow they were perfect enough to appease the left wing, there’d be 0 chance of getting red votes.
The next Dem who gets elected will do so using some centrist attitudes including towards social issues which we’re losing on badly. Might be time to get wise to that.
The last november election day, every democratic candidate that won, won on progressive platforms. Specifically, platforms that Newsom has a shitty record on. Your argument cuts both ways.
Also, how did all those red votes Harris got work out for her? She’s an awesome president- Oh. wait. that’s right SHE FUCKING LOST.
Do you see how that argument is holding us back? Centrists do not win elections. Alienating your actual base loses elections.
Hey. You’re pretty fucking smart. Thank you.
If he would’ve praised Reagan’s economic policy it would’ve at least made sense.
Running up the deficit and leaving it to the Dems to clean up?
I don’t like Newsom (and am not from the USA), but the context of this Tweet is very clearly a response to Trump and an attack on his behaviour (especially of late), re: insulting/mocking Rob Reiner’s death. His office/PR has regularly used Ronald Reagan’s quotes (as the former hero of the Republicans) to point out how completely embarrassing and perverse Trump’s presidency is to their former ‘ethics’ and values, and to ignore that context as tacit approval for Reagan is disingenuous.
This article (from a UK publisher) is really clutching at straws.
Having said all that, personally I think AOC or Bernie would be 100 times better candidates. Original Tweet below.
The DNC just buried its autopsy report from the 2024 election. Who knows what it said. But maybe Democrats ought to simply stop uplifting Republicans every chance they get. Fuck the outreach. Use other examples. I don’t like this guy at all anymore. He’s a snake.
Definitely a snake
Lol describing the presidency under Reagan as “a reminder of our common humanity” is 1000% praising and whitewashing Reagan, there is nothing “disingenuous” about it whatsoever.
Reagan was a devil in humans clothing. Saying he was humanity at all is spitting on the grave of people who died because of his actions.
The tweet said “the presidency” not “the president.” It didn’t even say anything about Reagan himself, just repeating what Reagan said about the title and office.
That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to defend someone highlighting Ronald fucking Reagan.
Oh
Ronald Reagan was a cuckold.
His first wife used to drag him to parties, mock him in front of other men, and then go home with those men.
As she once said at one of these parties, “if you asked Ronnie to tell you the time, he would tell you how they build watches.”
Is that rely true? I cant tell
Oops! The mask slipped off!!
Well, Reagan was another smooth-talking weasel with a slicked-back quiff. Game recognize game.
