At the first instant, my brain interpreted this as hinting that Carlson and Kid Rock had died and I was so pleasantly surprised.
Fucking Mondays.
Damn I hate Newsom but whoever his PR team is theyr fucking killing it with shit like this
EDIT: Friggin autocorrect “new some” lol
Can somebody explain the context of this? Who are the people in the picture?
People:
left: Kid Rock
center back: Hulk Hogan
center: Gavin Newsom, Gov. of California
right: Tucker CarlsonContext: all except Newsom are Trump supporters (Hulk Hogan was, he died). Trump is known for posting stupid AI generated pictures in this style with people worshipping him. Newsome makes parodies of that.
Thanks!
The people standing are Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Tucker Carlson. Not sure who’s sitting down, or who the twitter account is, or what the rest of the context is 😅
Thanks!
Why is fucking Newsom, the most neoliberal establishment motherfucker to ever walk the earth, the first Dem to figure out you can take these assholes down by just using their tactics against them?
It’s like if Pelosi just walked down onto the the chamber floor and just started yelling “okay boomer” every time someone tried to talk, while going the fortnight dance.
Because he’s also a narcissistic snake who has been self-interested and corrupt for years.
Which sadly, is exactly what we need to oppose the narcissistic snakes in power right now. We’re just fortunate that he is finding success and support to his liking in being the opposition we wish we had.
I support the tactic broadly, I hope the rest of the so-called Democrats pick it up and start mountain an actual “get in the dirty trenches” opposition that declaws Trump’s political capital.
The American left constantly punching left even when they’re losing is why the American right ate your lunch. You guys cannot abide allies or any other leftists that aren’t of the exact same stripe, while the right unified. As a non American you guys make our head hurt
But… But… Biden and harris were complacent in the Gaza genocide and even though the opposition would be worse and do more damage elsewhere, I just couldn’t vote for imperfect. 🫠
I think what really caused Harris to lose was the constant everything is great and I won’t change anything messaging. People were struggling and she offered nothing.
Trump did offer something, but anyone with a memory greater than 4 years should have remembered his promises are lies, but here we are.
Purity tests are one of the biggest downfalls of the left.
I really can’t stand Newsom. The guy is some of the worst aspects of the Dem party (note I did not say “the left”) Virtually guarantees they’ll run him.
I don’t know, I think Tim Waltz figured it out and then the Harris campaign shut him down. The whether or not it works or not I’m not sure. Certainly doesn’t look like anything’s been taken down.
TL;DR: calling fascists weird was and is EXTREMELY effective messaging and pivoting away from it was probably one of the top reasons for Trump being able to infest the white house again.
I think Tim Waltz figured it out and then the Harris campaign shut him down
100%. Without a shadow of a doubt. Never underestimate the ability of the DNC to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in order to please the owner donors and/or uphold arbitrary institutional norms.
The whether or not it works or not I’m not sure.
It ABSOLUTELY worked. Harris/Walz were far ahead in the polls while they were still calling weirdos weird and then they nosedived when they switched from that to the 1992 playbook.
The Trump messaging works by convincing people that the fascists are the only normal ones/the in group in a world taken over by abnormal and immoral people of the out groups
Even SUGGESTING that they might be just another out group rather than the only in group weakens the “everything our Dear Leaders say or do is correct because it’s against the weirdos” narrative and more importantly the feeling of belonging and of being on the right side of history that the leaders of the cult have instilled in the followers.
Regular people have no problem being called weird (in fact, a lot of us actively celebrate our weirdness), but a fascist movement simply falls apart without the solid conviction that they’re the only sane and normal ones.
This went a little longer than I intended, so I’ll add a TL;DR at the top lol
Well said!
Just give me a fucking fair primary, please. I’m going to lose my goddamn mind if they ram Newsom through like they did with Clinton and Biden.
Do they even need primaries at all anymore? We’ll just vote for whoever they select because it’ll be less damaging than the Republican.
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It depends on how much contempt they have for electorate. And their propensity to learn anything.
If they won’t learn on their own, they must be taught.
Didn’t learn much from 2016.
I don’t like these odds
So in other words, Newsom IS going to be the nominee unless Hakeem Jeffries somehow becomes presidential material by developing a personality between now and 2028.
Personally I hope he Jeb!s the primary. The republican electorate very quickly figured out when an establishment candidate was being rammed through and rejected it spectacularly. Let’s hope the Dems follow suit this time. There’s still a lot of time between now and the primary.
LFG!!! Remember how “weird” almost took him out? This mud fight is long overdue. America could be the first country to resolve a civil war fought entirely through memes.
That halo over Hogan’s head is the biggest mistake I’ve seen from AI so far
Gotta appeal to who this is intended for
Nah, that’s just a floating ring light to make it look professional
Newsom is going hard right now and I love it.
Probably some kid in the office making the memes and it getting signed off on… Where was this when Biden was in office ?
All over his Twitter? Pretty sure there were plenty of Dark Brandon memes, like the “just like we drew it up” tweet after the Super Bowl.
Yeah, he had a gen Z social media coordinator coming up with some pretty good anti-Trump memes for a while. But then they just kinda stopped.
Hakeem Jeffries got offended and started screeching about decorum.
It’s some lib zoomer named Camille Zapata.
he needs a team for this?
TBF, biden is 82 years old and has cancer. He should have probably never been running in the first place.
Still being focus group tested. Need to make the meme cringe enough to spread, but still push their messaging while avoiding any solid policies.
Who dat on stage left?
Fucker Carlson
Who dat on stage right?
Kid Rock.
Kid Rock
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Thank you fellow theater kid. I didn’t realize an accurate explanation is worth so many down votes, but there you go…
I can’t believe my silly tongue in cheek comment got removed, wtf? Why mods? I guess they viewed it as condescending.
They removed it for misinformation. That’s really what I thought it meant. No idea how I got it wrong. I guess this is what those Mandela effect believers feel like.
I’ve been living a lie, what the fuck?
Okay, not only do I have very specific memories of learning it the way I said, I also remember a joke from the TV show Smash that only works like that. They had a new girl to theatre and she didn’t understand the stage directions and went to the wrong side. But if stage left is left from the actor’s perspective, why would she have been confused? Unless they used the term house left, but I’d never heard that before now.
Is this a common misconception or something? This is seriously throwing me for a loop lol.
I mean its funny, but if he would actually do something, you know, meaningful, that would be cool.
What does “meaningful” mean to you?
he should start by doing what he already proposed doing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386
edit: you people downvoting this must be a bunch of hive-minded morons.
So, nothing he can personally accomplish is what you would like him to do.
he could probably accomplish a lot of things if he actually wanted to.
If it comes to Newsom against Trump in the 2028 general elections, I’m writing in “Fuck America” on my ballot, since there are no current frontrunner candidates in either party who will defend my rights. But wow he made an ai slop meme. That’ll show 'em.
Oh okay so you support the fascism then
If you support a candidate who interviews far-right pundits and says he “completely aligns” with them on trans issues, then I’m sorry to say that it’s you who is supporting a facist.
Save us the trouble and just don’t show up if your going to throw.
If you want me to stay quiet and take being the Democrats’ sacrificial cow with dignity for the sake of “normalcy,” I won’t do it. Blue No Matter Who is so simple when it isn’t your neck on the line, though.
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If Newsom is the candidate, the race will have already been thrown.
They count those as a vote for Trump. :)
Even more reason such a weak candidate can’t be allowed to win the primary. Putting forward such a weak platform and demanding the base hold their noses didn’t work in 2024, so why would it work again? Why leave things up the chance when every vote supposedly counts? 🙃
I think it’s one of those cases where whoever gets the nominated, the right wing agitprop machine will work overtime to throw wedges into the opposition and fins reasons for people to be Righteously Mad.
So there has to be some space for disagreement and common goals. Not ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ but at least ‘we are broadly going in the same direction and we can at least move the Overton window’.
It is an iterative game. Newsome, asshole or not, makes space for a slightly less right wing asshole next time. Take the long view.
That didn’t end up working with Biden, though. His victory didn’t push the overton window left. Under his watch, we had COVID denialism, conspiracy theories, liberals who thought Trump was the answer to cheap eggs, and an attempted coup.
It’s impossible to fond put what life would have been like with Trump in 2020 but… I suspect worse.
Sucks.
Must be nice having a Democrat who hasn’t thrown you under the bus :)
A Trump presidency and a Newsom presidency would be identical for me, so in a way, either vote is a vote or Trump.
If they’re the same, you might as well vote for him to move the Overton window and make space for the next one.
I disagree. Have you been following what’s going on in England? Labour is now as anti-trans as Conservative, and not just on sports, and public opinion has shifted with it. History suggests winning the election will shift the overton window further right, since it will entrench the party as needing to be anti-trans in order to be considered electable.
Yeah, it’s a problem, but it’s a problem to address during party elections, not the general. It sucks.
Also getting out and throwing some bricks can’t hurt.
Yes, I agree and I will vote in the primary. If another candidate wins it, great. But this is where I’ll stand if the electorate or the DNC chooses Newsom for the general.
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