• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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      7 days ago

      I’m not a Newsom fan but this is just an absurd thing to say. It would be a feat for anyone to be as corrupt as Trump. If you wrote a book with a villain as openly corrupt as Trump, it would be panned as unrealistic.

      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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        7 days ago

        The clearly said the system wouldn’t be less corrupt. It just so happens that the system isn’t corrupt enough for the pedo president so he’s even working outside of the already rampantly corrupt system

      • kibiz0r@midwest.social
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        If you wrote a book with a villain as openly corrupt as Trump, it would be panned as unrealistic.

        Now I kinda want a story where the villain commits all of Trump’s crimes and keeps getting away with it, but has absolutely nobody cheering for him.

        It would feel like those videos of sitcoms with the laugh tracks removed. Just an uneasy moment of tension after every action, like they’re in a completely different reality.

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      7 days ago

      Really?

      Really? Not the tiniest bit?

      Well, you’re wrong. But let’s start fighting now because whatever he is, he’s getting traction and The Savior of The Left is once again nowhere to be found. We’ll have three full years of “He sucks” b/w “Oh you want more fascism then?” And then we’ll get more fascism because the left is utterly incapable of uniting.

      If AOC jumps in, though, dissent will not be brooked. Because you fuckers are so goddamned insufferable she’ll be “supporting genocide” and “transphobic” before the ink is dry on her campaign document. And that will not stand, man.

      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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        7 days ago

        Stop acting like some corrupt dipshit doing PR shit means they’ve been crowned as the nominee. This is the time to keep them from being chosen FOR US. It’s not infighting to point out someone who would be an awful choice to undo the fascist shit…would be terrible for those reasons

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          7 days ago

          True enough so - who?

          *crickets*

          Yeah. That’s unfortunately all we ever get around here. A football stadium’s worth of screaming and shit for visible candidates, absolutely sweet fuckall for anything else. (Okay, except Mamdani - a state-level mayoral candidate - he’s got a pass. for now.)