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California’s governor has become an anti-Trump comedian. It’s 2017 all over again.
(www.theguardian.com)
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It’s not a sudden influx, he wasn’t getting talked about much before now, and suddenly he’s in the news and the commentariat is mumbling about a presidential run.
From my perspective, it seems he has no convictions and is willing to say and do what ever he thinks will get him the most positive headlines. He made those transphobic comments during the fucking Charlie Kirk podcast appearance, why the fuck did he do that? Because the opinion pieces were all winging about how Harris lost because she didn’t go on enough podcasts, and/or because she hadn’t been mean enough to trans people.
He’s doing this now, not because he thinks it matters but because all the opinion pieces are saying this is what he should do. He’s letting the tail wag the dog. Maybe the opinion pieces are right at the moment, but what happens when they suggest something idiotic?
He’s an awful candidate who will lose a presidential run at worst, and at best his milk toast careerism will knee cap the congressional battles that happen at the same time, leaving a divided congress incapable of passing real legislation.
I mean that part is definitely true. The Democratic campaign machine is a big collection of boomer shit, of which this was one example. I thought that was generally agreed upon on Lemmy?
Fuckin' what? Who said that? What are some of these opinion pieces?
Sounds like it's doing literally 100% the exact opposite, because he unlike almost all of the Democratic party is actually trying to fight for proper representation in congress. Right? Or did we read different articles or something?
You're trying to make sense of a comment with rampant errors topped by "milk toast."
It's overall milquetoast writing.
Haha, I was actually going to make fun of the "milk toast" but I thought there were some more substantive issues.