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’s been telling seeing how quickly many news sources abandoned any semblance of honesty when their owners tightened up on the reins.
In the last two years I completely changed which sources I get news from, now I’m paying for more smaller sources and completely avoiding aggregators like Google or Apple news.
It was too successful, and their oligarch handlers wanted fascism.
Because the Dems obeyed their consultants then, as they have for a couple of decades now, and still are.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/vampire-consultant-class-wants-democratic-party-blood-and-money
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.
By explicitly implied, you mean he laughed and didn’t explicitly deny it when asked, then changed the subject. Also keep in mind he’s been asked this question publicly probably once a week for the last 20 years.
I mean, it’s possible. I’ll just wait until he actually confirms he’s exploring it.
It’s weird that you’re implying you know he’s answered the question weekly(going hard with the hyperbole) but have obviously never seen him give said answer.
link pls maybe timestamp too anybody?
He’s been asked all the time since the George W. Bush administration. Incidentally the comments sections for The Daily Show have been filled with comments about it since their videos were first put on YouTube. Here’s a random time he was asked. I found it in 5 seconds.
Yes! And a whole movie was made and released based on the idea of someone like him running. Probally largely due to this strong, long present sentiment. It stars Robin Williams.
Yeah I know. I’ve seen dosens of times.
explicitly implied
Choose one
Implicitly explied.
No! Schrödinger’s cat 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.
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.”
“I’m not saying I’m running for president but I’m not not saying that, if you know what I mean”
(haven’t seen the clip, just postulating)
That’s not explicit. At most, it strongly implies he’s running.
Pretty much whenever someone ends a sentence with “if you know what I mean”, they are implying something.
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.
Mocking Fascists; Making them look foolish and ridiculing them, works
I once heard “There’s a reason neo-nazis idolize the nazi brother from American History X and not the Nazis in Springtime for Hitler.” One takes the neo-nazi ideology seriously and provides counter arguments. The other is making Nazis look lame.
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.
I’d rather Stewart continue with his activism. Colbert on the other hand…
Isn’t he Canadian?
Look I can see that comment being made in person, but this is a pretty easily researched question being posed asynchronously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert
He was born in Washington, D.C.
I really had it in my head that he was Canadian, so didn’t think I needed to. Thanks for the correction.
Not sure who I’m confusing him with.
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.
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.
They’re not all dumb, unfortunately. Some of them are just amoral.
And many are immoral.
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.
Wasn’t he impeached him twice but the Senate didn’t convict? How else should prosecution have been done?
I’m a non-USian, so I’m genuinely curious what the actions you feel should have been taken instead.
He should have been cuffed and arrested as he stepped out of the Whitehouse when his first term ended. Instead Biden called him a legitimate threat to democracy while doing absolutely jack shit to protect his citizens from said threat. And guess what? HE TURNED OUT TO BE A LEGITIMATE THREAT TO OUR MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRACY. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
How else should prosecution have been done?
Merrick Garland’s DOJ had four full years to build a case and prosecute it. Instead, he let Alvin Bragg do all the heavy lifting from the NYC DA’s office, in a case that couldn’t even wrap up before the election was over.
I’m genuinely curious what the actions you feel should have been taken instead.
There are people in Guantanamo Bay who have been imprisoned for over twenty years without a trial. People who have been cooling their heels through five different Presidential Administrations. If Joe Biden had seriously wanted to flex the muscles of the police state, if he truly believed Donald Trump was an existential threat operating on behalf of a foreign power on par with Muhammad Rahim or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, he’d have been tried in a military court for treasonous acts in cooperation with a hostile military power.
I got over eight fucking years of people saying he was in league with everyone from the FSB to the Italian Mafia and they all had a Steele Dossier full of evidence to prove it. That’s before you even get on the Epstein stuff (and Epstein’s ties to Mossad, which we all know Biden wasn’t going to touch).
The least you could do was nail him the way we did Martha fucking Stewart and lock him up on insider trading while in office.
The sky was the fucking limit with this guy. He stunk to high heaven with the sheer volume of crimes. High Treason, Espionage Act, any number of white collar crimes, take your fucking pick. The FEC took Sam Bankman-Fried from free man to locked up inside nine months. Don’t tell me that same agency couldn’t have had Trump as quickly.
By the criminal justice system. For his actual crimes. Congress need not be involved. Alternatively, Biden could have "Whatever the president does is legal as long as it’s an official act"ed him.
Non zero chance you are controlled opposition by choice or being led like a reactionary
Same. I’d rather have the felon in jail than someone sending mean tweets.
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.
The Newsom hype is a bit weird tbh. Like anything is better than Trump. But please America do better than business as usual…
It’s because he’s the only one actually doing anything. It sucks that he’s the one who is doing it, but we should be encouraging the behavior instead of shitting on the only person giving Trump the middle finger.
Is he perfect? Hell no. But don’t let perfect stand in the way of good. Well, maybe not good, but not a genocidal fascist.
My one hope there is that Dems will pick up on the fact that the only people getting noticed in their party are the people who are at least fucking trying.
“Stop trying so hard, people are noticing and it’s making the rest of us look bad” ~establishment Dems, probably
This. He’s not a progressive dem, and he won’t win me over against mostother candidates. However, how he is getting under Trump’s skin should be a blueprint for every other D out there if they want a fighting chance in the midterms and forward.
When they go low, kick them directly in the fucking teeth.
Would ne better if it were not newsom, but stop playing chess with fascist assholes and start aiming for the nuts works for me. Whatever vile underhanded shit fascism cultists want to do, do it to them twice. Be ruthless. Make the only answer a law that prevents it from happening again on either side. No wiggle room, no honor, just knock a bully on his ass and don’t let him up. Otherwise we will walk the high road right to uncontested authoritarianism.
It’s also likely because all of the billionaires running media companies want him as the next Dem choice, so his headlines stick around.
Plenty of Progressives make noise, too, but they’re never given any screen time.
I bet a lot of people would love to get back to business as usual as a pit stop on the way towards progress.
“Business as usual” is what led us here, and what causes what we are seeing today.
If we go back to that “as a pit stop”, we’ll be back here in about 4 years.
See the oil industry and their lie about Methane(sorry, “Natural Gas”) being a “transition fuel”
selling methane as ‘natural gas’ is one of the very best marketing ploys ever
Natural gas is not entirely methane (though it is almost), and the name ‘natural gas’ was to differentiate from ‘coal gas’/‘town gas’, not to obfuscate what it was
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.
I imagine him as a very useful tool at the moment.
…because he’s a tool, you see.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
I think people need to abandon the idea that we will go from being a far right country to a socialist or progressive one overnight. We didn’t get this far right in one election cycle, we crept this way over time. You want to see big progressive change? Start doing what you can to move the country left, but don’t do something out of spite that the country isn’t moving left fast enough that makes it more likely that the country moves right.
If Newsom is the candidate, vote for him. Then put a ton of pressure on him to enact meaningful progressive policy change. And elect as many progressives as you can to Congress. But, if a neoliberal is on the ballot against a fascist, show up and support the neoliberal. And, raise up and empower progressive media. And, actually get out there yourself and be part of all this.
lol we already tried that ever since I’ve been alive. Liberals will not help enact political pressure and will actively fight us.
We’ve had progressive moments in this country though. That’s how we got national parks, labor laws, and social security.
So like FDR you mean. And all that stuff has been peeled back ever since.
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
Peepee tape when?
Doing the work of the gods
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.
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 😁.
w/ typios!!!
Its hilarious that rump did not realize how long people have been laughing at him for this.
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.
Why is he able to continue dismantling the country? Because a significant number of people support what he is doing in some way or another.
Why do they support him? Because his messaging, as inane as it is, resonates with a lot of people who genuinely see him as a strong, confident leader.
Why do they see him as a strong confident leader? Because he talks and acts like a schoolyard bully, and a lot of people mistake overcompensating for insecurity as confidence.
It’s not going to work on all of his supporters, but just like with the Epstein Files (WHICH HE STILL HAS NOT RELEASED), if some chunk of his supporters see the emperor is naked, it erodes the mystique. Fact-checking him is useless because Trumpism is all about feelings–at least SOMEONE is realizing this and taking advantage of it.
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.
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!”
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