As much as I like Newsom’s politics a lot of the time, I dont think stooping to the level of writing deranged all caps tweets mimicking Trump is a great plan. Although at this point what even is a great plan? At least theyre doing something I guess
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Gavin Newsom is on top of his troll game.

He's got to be getting under Trump's skin. The worst thing you can do is ridicule a narcissist, as they hate being laughed at.
I don’t like this era of troll politics.
The trolls should have stayed online. And y’all were so fucking stupid to continuously discount online discourse like it wasn’t happening in the real world. Is it clear now? The internet is just a communication medium for the real world. It wasn’t just an alternate reality you could dismiss.
This is not directed at the person whose post I’m replying to. Just people who were overly dismissive of online communication spaces and the reality of social media.
I agree that the standard of behavior for politicians has fallen into the gutter, but I don't think there's much to gain by taking the high road.
Exactly. The Scots sang it best...'Ye take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland before ye".
Obviously, there are not enough moderate sane electors to win elections.
What good is it when your party loses, or just has elections outright stolen, because they're so busy taking the high road and congratulating each other on it.
…dear god this capslock-era of political discourse is so fucking exhausting, for so many reasons
Unfortunately necessary to talk to the level so trump’s followers understand. It’s like speaking another language
Expecting Trump to declare cannabis to be a schedule I drug, cancel the plans to reschedule it, and begin federal raids on legal dispensaries within California to harm their economy.
Bonus points if he collects state purchasing records (nationwide) to selectively threaten/silence people based on their social media history.
It already is a schedule one drug
I should have said reaffirm to capture my intended meaning there.
It’s not that he would change the scheduling, but change the handling of it. Right now the federal government more or less takes a strategy of non-enforcement at the intra-state level, but I could see Trump choosing to selectively meddle after reaffirming its schedule I status.
Ooh trumplethinskin is gonna send in the military now!
California may redraw its maps* Gavin can't actually do this unilaterally unlike in Texas and this will be put to a referendum on the November ballot.
The ballot measure won't be a sure thing even though California is very democratic, 38% voted for trump in the last election. It'll be a very off year election as well so turnout will probably very low and only those who are motivated. So the question is whose more motivated, the anti-trump resistance who want to stop him at any cost, or the conservatives in the state who are effectively having there representation taken away.
Maybe one good outcome of this is the conservatives will feel so unwelcome they'll actually follow through and fuck off to Texas and help ease the housing crisis.
I bet this will never happen
That's how trump won
Oh, he’s gonna win a third time too.
Why does everyone keep saying "third time"? There will likely be no more times. He's already promised everyone that they'll never have to vote again. Why do people keep thinking he'll do less damage than he's promised?
I’m suggesting that he won’t be leaving office until he is dead.
I hope that's soon, honestly. And I hope he's.confused and afraid when it.goes down.
You're also implying there will be an election
If there is, it will be rigged.
I agree; however, he has promised no more elections. My point is that he keeps saying he's going to do all this crazy shit and nobody ever believes him, and then he does it. So you should start believing him.
I’m saying he’s not leaving. How am I not believing him?
I've already told you. Your "third time" statement implies that there will be an election in the future when he's promised no more voting.
I'm just saying - people hear what he says and they immediately discount it or think "surely it won't be as bad as he's saying," but it nearly always is. I don't think that you are completely ignoring his promises, but you're giving him more slack than you should, and that's one of the reasons we're in this mess (not because of you specifically, just people in general).
Pedantic. Go fight someone on Reddit.
Ok buddy. Have a nice night and enjoy enabling fascism 👍
Why are you picking fights with people who are against fascism? Is this some kind of right-wing tactic to make anti-fascists exhausted and give up? Because it’s not working.
He also famously never keeps his promises. I would bet on more elections, but the unfair kind. We'll see, anything is possible - any of the terrible things, I mean.
Too old and unhealthy to make it that far.
Likely gonna be overthrown by Vance over this Epstein thing. Especially cuz he’s just word salading
So the Republicans have TACO and the Democrats have NACHO?
Okay, but Gavin calling himself handsome, even to mock Trump, makes me a bit ill.
Edit: I'm guessing the downvoters are not from California and have not been witness to Gavin's photo shoots to promote things like clearing/busting encampments of unsheltered people while trying to look like he's in a Gucci ad, 'Blue Steel' and all. He's a disingenuous hack who is making as many bad moves as good ones lately, because he is trying to play to both sides for his 2028 presidential run.
lol i think that makes it even more hilarious. Trump likes to also compliment himself in his statements, so its par for the course in mimicking him.
It was probably his press people
Be that as it may, my reaction is still

A man can dream?
This is how we needed to be dealing with Trump.
Maybe they will realize how insane Trump is when they see other people behaving the same way.
This is how we need to be dealing with Republicans. Let's not pretend Trump is the source of the insanity or that it will be over when he goes away.
MAGA will implode when Trump croaks. They've spent nearly a decade propping up their faith in the man, lying to themselves that everything he does is OK. No one else will get that sort of devotion.
That's why I've been groping conservative women. If Trump can do it, so can I.
Not groping all over right? I have it on good authority that they only need to be grabbed by the pussy.
Yeah I really don’t get how people don’t already see that
Wait is 9 seats enough to flip it?
That's pretty sad.
220-215 if all seats are filled right now Dems have 3 open (death) kid touchers have 1 (resigned).
Cali has 52 total with 9 being Red Texas has 38 total with 13 being Blue
Cali can wipe all 9 seats out. Lasson county is +22 Red with a population of about 37k. Nevada county is +5 with 96k pop. You can start stretching lines and eat up red counties quick.
Cali has a little over 10mil democrats vs almost 6mil republicans voters.
Texas has about 8mil democrats vs 6.6mil republicans. They can't swallow all the blue counties.
Republicans win bc they spread out to remote areas. Democrats lose bc they have massive numbers in dense areas.
A 1:1 vote would fix a lot of problems but republicans would be out. 3:1 would be the party outlook for blue:red.
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/report-registration/ror-odd-year-2025
https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/national/districts/map-of-texas-congressional-districts
https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/national/districts/map-of-california-congressional-districts
If Texas couldn't swallow that blue registered voter lead, Abbott wouldn't be a third term governor
I'm willing to bet $100 that something stops him from doing it, they give up, and blame Republicans for it as they watch Democracy end.
Downvote me all you want, but history shows this is what happens.
He won’t do it.
You can say a lot about Newsom. Lack of follow through isn’t really one of them.
Besides, it’s incumbent on a special election to allow it.
He is trying to be the front-runner for the 2028 democrat president nominee. He'll do it! There is plenty to hate about him but follow through is not one.
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