in 2024, Biden and then Harris tried their best to move rightward on immigration.

first with a “bipartisan” border security bill that was blocked by Senate Republicans on Trump’s orders.

and then at the DNC:

Among the speakers in Chicago were New York Rep. Tom Suozzi, whose relatively hawkish views on the border helped him win a Congressional special election in a conservative Long Island district earlier this year. The sheriff of a Texas border county who has criticized former President Donald Trump’s stance on the border was also on hand at the United Center.

this was the same DNC that had zero Palestinian-American speakers, because golly you know the schedule was just so packed. but there was plenty of time for two different speakers about how Democrats, not Republicans, are the people you should vote for if you care about the “border crisis”. a Congressman from Long Island, because of course immigration is a hot-button issue on Long Fucking Island. and a sheriff from Texas, appearing in-uniform, to continue the long tradition of Democrats trying to “well, ackshually, we’re the pro-police party”.

Democrats campaigning as Diet Republicans does not fucking work

but the central tenet of the Democratic Party is never learning a lesson about anything, ever, and so they haven’t learned that lesson.

that fucking animatronic wig is dead to me. if he’s the Democratic nominee in 2028 (it seems pretty transparent that’s the real motivation* behind starting his stupid little podcast), I’m not voting for him. I don’t care if he’s the VP pick behind someone I like better like AOC. crossing into anti-trans bullshit is an absolute dealbreaker for me.

* though this news is making me suspect that Newsom is realistic about not having a chance of winning the Democratic nomination, and instead he’s making a feint towards it so that he is positioned to run as a “centrist” independent spoiler candidate in the event someone “too far left” gets the nomination. that should be a pretty decent fundraising grift regardless of whether he goes through with it or not.

This is how you can tell he’s a politician and not a progressive. He has the single trait all truly evil people share: ambition.

Trans acceptance polls and focus-groups very badly right now. Fascist fearmongers have filled the information space with simple and incorrect explanations and now when asked, a majority of Americans will say or agree with nonsense statements like “trans has gone too far”.

Many politicians are looking at those polls and reacting exactly like Newsom - doing what’s easiest for their career rather than standing up, educating and fighting for a progressive cause to move public opinion towards justice.

This sure does make me feel like a giant fucking asshole for trying to convince people to cast a tactical vote against trump by voting dem.

Fuck the United States

When I made this meme yesterday, this is not what I meant.

Well that’s it folks. Democrats are going to be rushing to ensure they have enough trans blood on their hands.

I bet he listened to the consultants trying to push blame for the 2024 losses on to the democrats being to “woke”. You know, the same consultants who were running those elections and dumpstered any chance of victory by running the campaigns as moderately as possible so they could collect as much corporate donations as possible.

Even for a neoliberal centrist, I’m shocked Newsom is making this stance public. He’d have been better off just not saying anything. FFS

We need a new party for the progressive Left, assuming we ever get another real election.

Yikes.

Newsom bravely standing up for equal rights! /s