• @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    Another corporate pawn in progressive clothing. Her whiteboard can’t erase her voting record.

    🐱🐱

  • @[email protected]
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    641 month ago

    All she has to do is tell me she’s not going to fuck over consumers with regards to solar to protect regionally monopolistic power conglomerates who are literally killing people due to old equipment in wild fire corridors. Fuck Gavin Newsome.

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      31 month ago

      hmmm, seems clunky. I’m not sure that will work as a very good slogan.

      Do you have a shorter way of saying it without miscommunicating your overall message?

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        31 month ago

        Just take the last sentence, people will fill in the rest with their own grievances with him. Maybe his hair cut, always looks like he swam there.

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      Sorry, best we can do is fuck everyone over to protect PG&E so they’ll only declare bankruptcy once every two years instead of every six months. What? Why would you say that privatized, de-regulated utilities were a mistake?

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    251 month ago

    He’s got a good chance because she’s extremely popular outside of core Democratic hubs. Ita going to be a question of if she is willing to buck the system. Frankly, after the ratfucking of 2024, I think she could make real waves running as an independent; as a Democrat she’ll be open to the same weaknesses as we saw in the 2024 campaign.:DNC power brokers will quite litterally support fascists in their ability to win elections rather than have their own power challenged.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      61 month ago

      The democrats ran three decent options against the republicans in 2024 and the voters decided they’d rather sit out the election and let Trump win.

      It’s not some big involved conspiracy.

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        Either you don’t understand California elections and their primary process or maybe you just missed this one. Or maybe, it’s something else…

        This cynical dismissal of history is why the Democratic party struggles as hard as they do. It’s deeply damaging to their ability to actually win elections across the board. Not addressing their failures, not addressing and showing up where they failed previously, and creating the narrative structure where Democratic failures can be dismissed: if you want to keep losing, keep doing these things.

        Anyways, here’s the article on Schiff ratfucking. It went further than this but it gets one started: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/adam-schiffs-brazenly-cynical-campaign-strategy-boosts-a-republican/

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          Schiff’s strategy is savvy but cynical. And it’s worked before. In 2012, when Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill was facing a tough reelection race, she started running ads before the GOP Senate primary that played up controversial US Representative Todd Akin. With an assist from McCaskill, Akin won the primary. Her scheme paid off when he infamously suggested that women who were victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant, and she easily dispatched him in November.

          I mean this is just politics, Trump and his campaign boosted Bernie in 2016 and 2020 because Trump knew he could wipe the floor with him.

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            That didn’t happen.

            And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

            And if it was, that’s not a big deal. 👈

            And if it is, that’s not my fault.

            And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

            And if I did, you deserved it.

            Thanks for letting us know where we are in the process

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            161 month ago

            There is no indication that Trump thought he could “wipe the floor” with Bernie. In fact, it was likely the opposite. The polling certainly didn’t agree, for whatever that’s worth. Even if he did think that, there is no indication that he would have been right. It’s funny how Trump is an evil genius when the Democrats want him to be that, and a raging moron when they want that.

            Once Bernie was put up against Trump rhetorically, Bernie’s lead would have grown substantially. Bernie talks to a huge segment of America that most Democrats talk past. Most Democrats don’t even get heard because they have nothing worthwhile to say.

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              Bernie couldn’t even a primary but there’s a whole delusional section of the population who think he had a chance to be president.

              America has been poisoning the well against anyone considering a commie or socialist for a hundred years it’s not going to change any time soon.

              • @[email protected]
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                131 month ago

                Bernie couldn’t even a primary but there’s a whole delusional section of the population who think he had a chance to be president.

                You mean like Harris? Bernie, and everyone else, blew her out of the water in 2020. Maybe the Democratic establishment should have been taking your advice.

                The well has also been poisoned against fascism, Russia, “coastal elites”, and rapists/pedophiles. Trump still won. Maybe you’ve lost the plot somewhere.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      In California they don’t do partisan primaries for state office. It will be her versus Harris the entire way no matter what she writes down for party affiliation.

  • Doug Holland
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    1641 month ago

    Katie Porter is one of the very few good guys. She’d be a terrific governor for California, so I expect the Democratic Party will do all they can to oppose her.

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      161 month ago

      Harris is going to run and don’t you know this was her promised consolation prize. So sorry progressives, maybe in a 100 years when everyone in line in front of you dies?

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        11 month ago

        Yeah, I remember it being pitched right after the election. Idk, if Kamala actually runs on a progressive platform and doesn’t redshift like she did late in the election, I might consider her seriously.

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          41 month ago

          She’s incapable of running a progressive campaign. You have to actually be Progressive to do that.

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        41 month ago

        Has she confirmed? I haven’t seen anything yet. Amy did well enough in the senate race. But she won’t beat Kamala if she runs. The power has shifted to NorCal/Bay area politicians to win elections.

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          81 month ago

          She hasn’t confirmed yet but that’s how the corporate political caste does things. They use the “soft announcement” to start testing messaging and campaign ideas. Then when they publicly decide they’re actually running they can denounce anything from before that.

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      If she isn’t the Dem nominee she should still run. I think we could put a progressive in here in CA.

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        California has jungle primaries where the top two (usually both Democrats) go on to contest the general election iirc…

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          11 month ago

          Yep, one of the funnier end results seems to be the gradual recreation of the Progressive Republicans at least in my area. Though it should be noted they are still small and being actively ignored but the rest of the Republicans.

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          51 month ago

          It allows me to remain registered as a Republican but vote liberal every election. I just don’t know how you change affiliation at this point. And I don’t care after so long.

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          21 month ago

          I hate the top-two jungle primary. Damnit, if I want to vote for the person with no chance at winning, I shouldn’t have to write them in! I’d honestly much prefer to see some flavor of ranked choice vote implemented (not trying to kick off an argument about RCV flavors, just using it as a blanket term).

  • @[email protected]
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    221 month ago

    Wasn’t she the single mother raging against people deciding on single mother issues without even having a shred of knowledge on it? That was great.

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    331 month ago

    I’m on board if she brings a whiteboard and schools people after putting forth actual legislation based on real data. She’ll be amazing in any political seat she is elected to.

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    51 month ago

    I can see Newsome already planning a 2028 run. She doesn’t seem like the type to challenge the party incumbent. He will most likely endorse her and focus on the 2028 campaign.

  • Blurry Bits
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    711 month ago

    Why yes, there does seem to be a plastic-democrat that urgently needs replacing. Good on her!

  • katy ✨
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    Vice President Harris or Rep. Porter would both be fantastic!

    I’d love to see Katie Hill make a comeback too.

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      81 month ago

      Harris wasn’t good in the 2020 primary, she wasn’t good as vice president, and she wasn’t good in the 2024 race where she lost all of democracy to the guy the California governor would now be responsible for standing up to. She’s not our designated champion anymore, we don’t need to pretend she’s a superstar politician destined for great things.

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    641 month ago

    I’m so sick of Democrats ripping off a mask to reveal they’re Republican.

    I’d like for once it to be the other way around, or for a Dem to rip it off and reveal they’re even further left.

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      61 month ago

      There’s no financial incentive in doing that, so it’s going to disproportionately be politicians moving to the right.

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        Maybe not, but it would be really cool and totally radical! Especially if they double-shaka’d 🤙

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Newsom has pilfered his corrupt PG&E money so he doesn’t need to be actually helpful to anyone anymore.

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      31 month ago

      alot ofr republicans will switch thier parties to D, because they arnt right wing enough to be voted as one, and then either switch back parties immediately or vote like a DINO republican.

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        141 month ago

        Yes. I was referring to Newsom.

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            A while ago he vetoed a bunch of progressive laws passed by the legislature. Recently he started a podcast and invited alt-right types to “debate him” (i.e., speead their own views) and in that Newsome repeated anti-trans talking points.