Political Memes

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/gavin-newsoms-all-caps-tweet-mocking-donald-trump

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: This post is an actual copy of his tweet by OP

"You are playing with fire, risking the destabilization of our democracy, while knowing that California can neutralize any gains you hope to make," he said. "This attempt to rig congressional maps to hold onto power before a single vote is cast in the 2026 election is an affront to American democracy."

"DONALD TRUMP HAS 24 HOURS LEFT TO RESPOND TO GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S LETTER. IF HE DOES NOT STAND DOWN, THERE WILL BE A VERY IMPORTANT PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%40govpressoffice

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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 120 points 1 year ago (11 children)

We live in hell

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've been saying so since high school.

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[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

We don’t know how old you are my dude. High school could have been last year, or in the 80s.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well it's clearly not the good place, because I can say ~~fork~~

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[–] kinther@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Wait, are we in the bad place?

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[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

HOLY FORKING SHIRTBALLS

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell was nicer back then, though.

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are you in for? I pirated video games and movies.

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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Chronic masturbation. The corn flakes didn’t help

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

You were supposed to put dry corn flakes in your hand before trying to crank one out.

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I had that feeling for quite some time now. We are actually in hell that's why our prayers are not being heard. Being in hell means we are left in our own.

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[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Quantum immortality but your sins send you another layer closer to hell where the timeline is worse.

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Everything else aside, it's good satire. It's just a well-executed joke.

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder what would happen if the entire party started mocking Trump like this. Maybe this is our JD Vance meme moment but for Trump.

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[–] 5too@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I think it'd just go over his head, unfortunately

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Idk, I think it would get stuck in his hair

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[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 point 1 year ago

I'm sure there will be plenty trump jokes to go around when he's gone and ill-remembered.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Well-executed and a joke, yes.

But not "just" a joke

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Is this really real?

It's awesome if it is. I mean, it's sad, but in this universe, currently, awesome

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It is real.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Some intern had some fun.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"ChatGPT, write a tweet in the style of..."

Em-dashes aren't definitive proof of LLM content, but competent satire is usually beyond the reach of the political class.

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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world [M] 46 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

This post was reported. The reason given:

OP's title isn't good faith argumentation as per the rules. It's an inappropriate and absurd reference to dementia

Many professionals have noted that Trump has shown multiple signs of dementia. This means that while it may not be completely accurate, the headline doesn't appear to be in bad faith.

Leaving it up.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online [S] 5 points 1 year ago

Greatly Appreciate it.

It's not normal for a person to yell at people on the roof. And if that isn't textbook dementia, I don't know what is.

I can probably tone down on the snark...

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[–] GR4CELESS@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

High five!

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Bless 🙏

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Hey, Gavin, your buddy is looking for you in Saint Denis.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Gavin!? Gaaaaav

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[+] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Been screaming for this for years! Bait him, taunt him, fuck him up. He's literally easier to manipulate than a toddler. Ridicule him, satirize him, lampoon him until he's a non-functional mess. God it's so fucking easy if one dares.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Y'all wanted Democrats to stand the fuck up. Comments:

Fuck Newsom! He's not pure enough!

And that is why we so fucking always lose.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago*

Newsom is ambitious, self-serving, Randian, right-wing neoliberal scum. However, I would still pick him over the murderous criminal totalitarian child rapists currently running the US.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I saw AOC use her right hand once so she’s not pure enough either.

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I kind of cringe everytime someone goes off about some dumbass purity test for AOC. Like one of the most, if not the most, progressive politicians of my lifetime and jokers want to get mad at her because this one time she wasn't progressive enough. Like how the fuck do people think you push politics in general to the left? By electing some middling democrat, or even a republican, because the progressive candidate wasn't progressive enough? How does that make any fucking sense?

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I am convinced that at least some of that is from her competition in her own party who lean further right and republicans. Best time for a coward to attack is when your opponent is already down

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[+] mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.world -20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bro she voted to fund a genocide

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[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Go read what she voted for and not just news articles trying to make some purity fight on the left. Propaganda is working on you. Go look at her choices for the whole bill and see what actually happened. Rather than taking the headlines and people crying. Cause you cry about AOC but show me someone in America LEADIng better than her. Don't get me wrong she isn't perfect but if you can't play chess and understand the value of all the pieces you should stick to checkers so you understand blue is your team and is better than red who is your opponent.

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[–] mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm not saying she isn't the best we've got. We're just scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

New to this whole politics thing are you?

First presidential I voted in Dennis Kussinich was the progressive candidate.

AOC is the cream compared to the past...... Always.

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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

By all means, support the non-geanocidal candidate. Most of us don't have that option.

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[–] piefood@feddit.online -1 points 1 year ago

Bro, you don't seem to understand. It's only when the Red-Team supports genocide that it's bad. When the Blue-Team supports genocide, it's totally cool. Didn't you see the last Presidential election?

/sarcasm

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[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Newsome's press staffer sent a funny tweet. I guess that makes up for him creating a platform to shit on trans people with right wing monsters, saying that Dems should ignore Trump sending innocent people to an El Salvador gulag because the issue is a political loser, and years of shit policies"

The reason Dems lose is because they don't ever actually do anything. A tweet is not an action. It's performative bullshit.

So, hehe funny tweet. But also, fuck newsome, do something.

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[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

He's threatening to redistrict California in response to Republican Leaders gerrymandering Texas

He states he has found a way to gerrymander California to eliminate 5 Republican seats whilest abiding by the Voting Rights Act

He has held multiple press conferences and public appearances drawing attention to this

This tweet is about - and part of - this effort to draw national attention to gerrymandering

It's too soon to say if he'll follow through with his threat, but he's done a lot.

I don't like Newsome, but respect this - don't just shit on it. This is the action you're asking for

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[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Newsome has to get the legislature to put it on the ballot, Californians have to approve it. The nonpartisan redistricting commission was created by referendum and can only be changed by referendum. It's good that he's supporting the initiative and pushing it. Pat on the head for that.

But you ever noticed Newsome doesn't fight for shit unless it personally affects him? Round up immigrants and send them to El Salvador? Newsome doesn't want to even talk about that cause he thinks it's a political loser for him personally. Trans kids being discriminated in sports? Newsome thinks he'd do better in a presidential election if he's a little bigoted since Kamela got hit on the issue, so fuck trans kids. Trump rounding up immigrants in LA, big meh from newsome. However, Trump takes over Newsome's national guard, now newsome is ready to fight. Republicans rigging the House which could mean a president Newsome would have to deal with a Republican house, now he's going to the mat.

So yeah, glad Newsome is doing a thing for once (or more accurately supporting the citizens being able to do the thing), but he's still a piece of shit.

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[–] fishy@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Don't let perfection stand in the way of good. Is Newsome the candidate I want? Fuck na. Is this better than what we're seeing from most of our leadership. Fuck ya.

Sometimes you need a dick to fuck the assholes so they stop shitting all over the place.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago*

Sometimes you need a dick to fuck the assholes

If this were Reddit I'd spend like $100 to give this animated shooting meteors and permanently stickied to the top of /r/all

As it is, I may need to get this turned into a T-shirt on Etsy

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online [S] 1 point 1 year ago

Conservatives: Well I might not align with their "shoot dogs" policy, or their "put kids in factory" policy, but I like their "jail immigrants" policy and "pedophiles are cool" policy. Red all the way.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

So pedophile dictator cheeto Trump will have to respond to this, in Neeson's writing style?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

The words are too big, that won't be possible.

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[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And the country moves one step closer..

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

honestly don't care if it's real

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The enemy of my enemy.... is still an asshole. Fuck Newsom.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I agree, and I lived in CA while this twat was picking up signs and pretending to care about union workers.

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... and I'd still vote Newsom over Trump, with a song on my lips

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well the stupid thing about it is, is that California voted to do away with partisan gerrymandering. So I don't know how the hell Newsom is going to gerrymander California in response to what's going on in Texas.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

Bipartisan gerrymandering exclusively hurts Republicans.

If the land or populations were just cut up in a grid the Republicans would never win anything again.

Literally just draw horizontal lines through the state.

The coasts would make it so not a single district is red.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

A grid would over-represent rural areas. You are thinking of actual fair riding boundaries.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

America's favorite governor? Yeah, no. Fuck that guy. He's an asshole that just happens to be fighting Trump, which most of us like.

Big Joe Biden energy with this guy.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)

He knows he's not, he's just mocking Trump.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yknow, begs the question who the real favorite governor is. I'm guessing Walz, given national spotlight, but who else?

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[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Pritzker (IL) is probably up there along with Mills (ME), both have also made stands against trump.

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[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Pritzker my goat.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago*

Does anyone even know who the governor of any state that isn't California, New York, Texas, Florida, or the one they live in is? Aside from Walz, of course.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd vote for the guy, man. Walz for president.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tim is a treasure but I'd gladly give him up as our governor if he was running for president.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I wouldn't vote for Walz in a primary in a billion years, fuck that guy. He's extremely pro-Israel.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Ugh, I was not aware of this. We really do have shitty choices, don't we? I guess my money is on AOC at this stage, or a new choice like that New York Mayoral candidate.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago

Not the current governor, but I bet Mitt Romney could be a good contender considering he was the Republican governor of deep blue Massachusetts, who elected him twice for his policies that were so well received that Republicans blamed Obama for his healthcare system.

When Obamacare went into effect, it didn't happen in Massachusetts because Mass already had a (better) version of it.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago

Im going to guess it's AI written -- for reasons.

[+] brucethemoose@lemmy.world -15 points 1 year ago*

Newsom's kinda slimy. I guess he's going for 'liberal Trump'?

Still... It's only fair. Apparently this is how US politics are done now, via all cap tweets and bombastic announcements, so mind as well join in.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -4 points 1 year ago*

still isnt getting that presidental endorsement, since you shacked up with some nazis. he wouldve had a potential with it if he hadnt done that. He wasnt at risk before losing support, why was hes entertaining them.