For years, Donald Trump has leaned on all-caps social media posts to grab attention online.
His Truth Social feed often reads like a never-ending shouting match. However, that changed after Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) began mocking the president’s style in dozens of posts interspersed among his regular missives.
This has been going on for the better part of a week, and seems to have gotten to Trump’s ego, as his latest Truth Social posts aren’t in his classic all-caps style.
Mocking Fascists; Making them look foolish and ridiculing them, works. It’s even more effective than just holding their feet to flame like Kamala.
This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running. Someone like him or Jordan Klepper is the worst case scenario.
The best strategy the democrats had was calling republicans weird, but then it just got cut off as it was gaining traction.
It was too successful, and their oligarch handlers wanted fascism.
Oh no it’s alienating the (mythical and fictional) centrist voters!!! We don’t want to offend the republicans! Let’s stop.
Yeah. They shouldn’t worry about that as long as they bring receipts.
Good leadership includes pointing out when those around you are acting like jackasses.
This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running.
Is he? I thought it was just other people saying he should
He explicitly implied he was considering running on Charlemagne’s show. Wouldn’t mean much for most people but Jon has always aggressively shut down any such suggestion and here he brought it up.
explicitly implied
Choose one
Implicitly explied.
Go watch the clip. In the context of Jon Stewart it’s weird. He hasn’t given the idea serious thought since the rally to restore sanity in ancient times.
Even Jon Stewart cannot defy the rules of logic.
Either he explicitly said “I am running for president” or he implied it by saying something other than “I am running for president.”
He clearly implied. Leaving no room for confusion or doubt that he implied what he implied.
The implication was explicit. He’s considering running. No one thinks he was implying he would run for a spot on Sesame Street, or as Chief of Staff, or any other position.
You don’t think that works well enough, especially in the context of Jon’s relationship with the subject in the past?
Leaving no room for confusion or doubt that he implied what he implied.
You keep using these words… I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
If you must interpret the meaning of his words based on additional context, then he was implying.
If there is no need for interpretation, then he was being explicit.
especially in the context of Jon’s relationship with the subject in the past?
His relationship to the subject in the past has been an utter lack of interest in running for any kind of office, and has never even attempted it on a local level or expressed a desire to.
How about we all get the dick of celebrityhood in general out of our collective mouths and just let the man tell us what he has planned if he has something planned.
Whoa, I was just discussing why I would go easy on the poor word choices here. Calm down.
No! Schrödinger’s cat for president!
He’s not, he wisecracks about it here and there to farm a little engagement, but I don’t think anyone expects him to suddenly become the wiley dealmaker and negotiator between members of the parties he despises. A lot of people on the left have the same exact celebrity infatuation as MAGA do, it just takes a slightly different form. Liberal audiences are engaged and laugh at thoughtful irony and scathing shower-arguments delivered to captive audiences. The right laughs at MAN FALL DOWN GO BOOM.
Even if he were suddenly to pull off his mask and show that he has electability (political capital), he would be running on a liberal platform not much different than establishment dems have been doing for years because they have the same base: liberals. I mean, honestly a lame-duck Stewart administration would be preferable over literally everything we are looking at on the horizon, but I do think we can do a lot better than more celebrity worship.
Stewart’s rhetoric is cathartic to libs and leftists frustrated with the right, but he’s never been a champion of socialism or a radical, it’s just jokes. He admits this, it’s his power and strength and putting him in the seat of power would actually take that strength away.
This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running.
He’s not, he’s never expressed any strong desire to outside of jokes and fantasy scenarios, this hype is the same bullshit celebrity worship and WWE theater that got Trump elected.
So you’re saying there’s a chance.
I would honestly take a lame-duck Stewart administration where nothing gets passed and nothing happens politically over what the GOP has planned for the next decade. But that’s also why he’s unlikely to be backed by a major party or progress far into primaries and haha we might not even have another “fair” election.
Trump has passively destroyed late night TV simply by being the only thing they joke about now. I honestly don’t think writers even remember what they did before Trump.
Please God bring back Sam Kinison
What a perfect anti-Trump candidate
IDK I feel like he’d just get into a screaming match with Alex Jones. Honestly that’d be fun to watch.
The Newsom hype is a bit weird tbh. Like anything is better than Trump. But please America do better than business as usual…
I bet a lot of people would love to get back to business as usual as a pit stop on the way towards progress.
See the oil industry and their lie about Methane(sorry, “Natural Gas”) being a “transition fuel”
Yeah I hate the Newsom hype. So many people just forgot or don’t care that he invite people like Charlie Kirk onto his podcast and agreed with them on transphobic talking points. Even if he’s just trying to do it to appeal to republican voter it’s really stupid. Their voters don’t want a fascist-lite when a full on fascist is right there. All he does is drag the democrats further right and normalize transphobic talking points. Which leads to violence and more deaths like what happened with Nex Benedict.
It’s really sad how many people are just perfectly okay with letting me and other trans peoples rights be taken away because Newsom said a few funni things. It’s really upsetting how people in general on the left are transphobic but claim to be supportive. It’s incredibly frustrating watching people tell me I should support Newsom even though he is vocally against my rights. Sorry I don’t want to have to choose between a fascist who wants to blame and attack my people and a fascist-life who wants to blame and attack my people.
It fucking sucks. He has the veneer of a slightly progressive Democrat, then pulls shit like platforming flat out nazis like Charlie Kirk. And playing into anti-trans fear mongering. Well and being blase about homeless erasure and other crap.
Also his talking points on Palestine are wild. Dude is exactly why the democrats didn’t get in last election. Doing all the same shit.
agreed with them on transphobic talking points
I decided to check the actual podcast with Kirk and see what’s the transphobic statement he made.
Here’s the video, 22:20 onwards, it goes on for a while.
We can discuss the details, neither do I like his response overall, but you’re massively overblowing and demonizing his position. Anyone can check for themselves. If this is how you think a transphobic fascist-lite sounds, if you think he would actually appeal to any republican voters thanks to this response, you must have a very caricatural understanding of politics and society.
I imagine him as a very useful tool at the moment.
…because he’s a tool, you see.
“You can always trust Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other options.”
We need actual like, American rebuilding from the ground up change. But for that to happen we need actual, America is completely broken and people are going hungry. Until that time we will keep going back and forth between “normal” and fascist, with the “normal” slowly creeping towards fascism anyways.
So we will probably go back and forth a few more times because Donald Trump will die happily of old age soon, and Democrats will claim a quiet victory and pretend nothing bad ever happened. Reverse a couple meaningless law changes. Keep the rest. And then be shocked when the new Donald Trump takes the reins.
We won’t ever as a country look ahead and be like “ah yes, that is the correct course of action. It’s okay to lose some profits now because the long term prosperity of the nation is what’s important.” We always try the easy but wrong path first.
I’m worried about the possibility of more violent ends, but in reality I think you’re dead on the money. After the orange turd kicks the bucket we are going to waffle back over to “normal” where we are only getting fucked over quietly, rather than right in our face.
I don’t idolize Newsom, but he’s doing something. No one else is. Credit where credit is due.
No matter what, he’s orders of magnitude better than Trump. He’s also white, male, and straight and America has a big problem voting for anyone that doesn’t meet that criteria.
If you’re expecting American liberals to learn the lesson this presidency has taught them, I wouldn’t bank on it. Get ready for a Newsom presidency, and then get ready for another weird fascist one immediately after.
The country is clearly not ready for a woman, much less a woman who isn’t white, so business as usual is the only thing that’ll work. Literally anything is better than trump, I’ll vote for a ham sandwich if it comes down to it. everyone better get used to that idea, otherwise we end up with Trump 2.0 again because liberals decided to not vote again for a dumb fucking reason.
Not ready? Or just being petulant? It sure sucks that things have to be strategically discriminatory to stop the current trajectory of things.
Sorry, the best we can do is vote in mostly reckless people in ot for themselves or old people who should be in a home but somehow got into the house… and senate
it’s like watching a 5 yr slapping everyone and then gets a slap back and goes ‘ouch that hurts!!’
ANYWAYS: EPSTEIN FILES. WHERE THEY AT?
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Doing the work of the gods
It’s good knowing the leader of the most influential and powerful nation on the planet is easier to manipulate than a child.
So, basically, like all conservatives.
If you haven’t already, make sure to grift your local conservatives. Get them in on a pyramid scheme. Tell them you’re a Nigerian prince and need a small donation that you’ll return with interest once you’ve retaken your kingdom. Swindle them in any way you can. They’re stupid and they will fall for it. These are traitors to our nation and the less money they have, the less financial support they can provide to their favorite felon rapist pedophile.
easier to manipulate than a child.
Putin sure knows it.
I know it’s gonna sound like beating a dead horse but this is what the democrats should have been doing since 2016. We all know how thin skinned and stupid trump and the GOP are and that they will always fall for meme and troll posts. Idk if it will help but this needs to be adopted by everyone who thinks they have a chance of winning against this republican regime.
this is what the democrats should have been doing since 2016
I kinda thought they should have prosecuted Trump and his known associates for their litany of criminal actions.
But I guess making fun of them online from the office of the largest and most influential state in the country is also cool.
Fwiw i agree, however also: why not both?
Im a little tired of the high horse shit, and see the democrats as enablers of facism (doesn’t matter if it’s intentional or not really, the result is the same)
why not both?
Can’t hurt. But one’s treating the symptom and the other is treating the disease.
Non zero chance you are controlled opposition by choice or being led like a reactionary
They tried that with the “weird” thing until they abandoned it in favor of their usual tactic of attempting to defeat an army of shit-smeared fascist memelords by appealing to suburban wine moms who think Jimmy Fallon clips are bleeding edge humor.
They should have stuck with it. It drove conservative fucking batshit when they couldn’t frame themselves as the “normal” ones.
They would’ve lost either way. People were blaming democrats for covid-related inflation and ignored any positive thing biden admin might have done.
If Biden had done any-fucking-thing we wouldn’t be here. That’s what happens when you reap what the neoliberals sow.
What do you mean? He wrote a strongly worded letter! /s
Reverse psychology…tell them the dems are trying to make it illegal to allow states single payer healthcare? Can we start there.
Why don’t the Dems get together and do a single payer health program agreement that all blue states can opt into and tell them that the red states need not apply?
That could be regarded as a form of Interstate Compact, and Interstate Compacts requires congressional approval (and probably subject to presidential veto), and it can get challenged in courts and we know what the supreme court composition looks like right now. And we don’t know if congress can revoke a previously authorized compact, maybe the supreme court just make a ruling that allows permission to be revoked by the next congress.
Please enlighten me: what has Gruesome Newsome accomplished with regards to actual policy and legislation by adopting the same trolling methods of the far right?
He’s just pushing the Overton window further into insanity territory. You realize if everyone adopts gerrymandering it essentially just erodes another aspect of our representative democracy?
Fuck neoliberals. I didn’t vote for Kamala and I’m sure as hell not voting for Gavin “let’s have a chat with Nazis on my podcast” Newsome.
Wow, nobody has a response to this. Hilarious.
Bully the bully into submission!
I’m not even surprised that “cyber bulling the president” is in this timeline. Cards Against Humanity needs to be taking notes.
Trump is dismantling the country and here we are nitpicking about him using CAPS LOCK. My fellow Americans, you will have much to answer for when this is over.
you will have much to answer for when this is over.
Sure, come on over and start pulling people out of the shanties in our warring factions of techno-feudalism and asking them all kinds of questions about why their grandparents chose to vote based on caps-lock use and memes.
Hallmark of the troglodyte republican. All caps rants and conspiracies, then when questioned and present contradictory fact, FOLLOWS WITH THREATS AND INSULTS FOLLOWED BY A SIMLEY FACE 😁.
Republicans in Texas attempted to push through a mid-decade redistricting map
Past tense? I thought this was going ahead.
Edit: So…not past tense. It just went through. Guess this is just another shit writer in journalism who never learned English.
Im not a huge fan of Newsome but you got to give it to him. It took too long but someone is finally hitting Trump where it hurts. That is all anyone wanted to begin with. Had Kamala done this she would have won the election.
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Next he should post about buying an island where dozens of hot young girls will entertain rich men with his business partner Chastain Boswell, ending with, “I DEFY THE LAW AND ORDER PARTY TO TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS! THEY PRACTICALLY ENDORSE IT!”
