Katie Porter is one of the very few good guys. She’d be a terrific governor for California, so I expect the Democratic Party will do all they can to oppose her.
If she isn’t the Dem nominee she should still run. I think we could put a progressive in here in CA.
California hss jungle primaries where the top two (usually both Democrats) go on to contest the general election iirc…
Harris is going to run and don’t you know this was her promised consolation prize. So sorry progressives, maybe in a 100 years when everyone in line in front of you dies?
Why yes, there does seem to be a plastic-democrat that urgently needs replacing. Good on her!
All she has to do is tell me she’s not going to fuck over consumers with regards to solar to protect regionally monopolistic power conglomerates who are literally killing people due to old equipment in wild fire corridors. Fuck Gavin Newsome.
I would love to see PG&E get their asses handed to them.
Eh, they just pass all the pain on to consumers
Oh, in that case I suppose they should be allowed to continue killing people.
Look corporations are people, which obviously means we can’t hold the humans operating them responsible…
/s
hmmm, seems clunky. I’m not sure that will work as a very good slogan.
Do you have a shorter way of saying it without miscommunicating your overall message?
I’m so sick of Democrats ripping off a mask to reveal they’re Republican.
I’d like for once it to be the other way around, or for a Dem to rip it off and reveal they’re even further left.
There’s no financial incentive in doing that, so it’s going to disproportionately be politicians moving to the right.
Maybe not, but it would be really cool and totally radical! Especially if they double-shaka’d 🤙
Isn’t the “rep” here for representative as she is a democrat?
Yes. I was referring to Newsom.
Ah my bad.
Yeah
I’m on board if she brings a whiteboard and schools people after putting forth actual legislation based on real data. She’ll be amazing in any political seat she is elected to.
He’s got a good chance because she’s extremely popular outside of core Democratic hubs. Ita going to be a question of if she is willing to buck the system. Frankly, after the ratfucking of 2024, I think she could make real waves running as an independent; as a Democrat she’ll be open to the same weaknesses as we saw in the 2024 campaign.:DNC power brokers will quite litterally support fascists in their ability to win elections rather than have their own power challenged.
In California they don’t do partisan primaries for state office. It will be her versus Harris the entire way no matter what she writes down for party affiliation.
The democrats ran three decent options against the republicans in 2024 and the voters decided they’d rather sit out the election and let Trump win.
It’s not some big involved conspiracy.
Either you don’t understand California elections and their primary process or maybe you just missed this one. Or maybe, it’s something else…
This cynical dismissal of history is why the Democratic party struggles as hard as they do. It’s deeply damaging to their ability to actually win elections across the board. Not addressing their failures, not addressing and showing up where they failed previously, and creating the narrative structure where Democratic failures can be dismissed: if you want to keep losing, keep doing these things.
Anyways, here’s the article on Schiff ratfucking. It went further than this but it gets one started: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/adam-schiffs-brazenly-cynical-campaign-strategy-boosts-a-republican/
Schiff’s strategy is savvy but cynical. And it’s worked before. In 2012, when Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill was facing a tough reelection race, she started running ads before the GOP Senate primary that played up controversial US Representative Todd Akin. With an assist from McCaskill, Akin won the primary. Her scheme paid off when he infamously suggested that women who were victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant, and she easily dispatched him in November.
I mean this is just politics, Trump and his campaign boosted Bernie in 2016 and 2020 because Trump knew he could wipe the floor with him.
There is no indication that Trump thought he could “wipe the floor” with Bernie. In fact, it was likely the opposite. The polling certainly didn’t agree, for whatever that’s worth. Even if he did think that, there is no indication that he would have been right. It’s funny how Trump is an evil genius when the Democrats want him to be that, and a raging moron when they want that.
Once Bernie was put up against Trump rhetorically, Bernie’s lead would have grown substantially. Bernie talks to a huge segment of America that most Democrats talk past. Most Democrats don’t even get heard because they have nothing worthwhile to say.
Bernie couldn’t even a primary but there’s a whole delusional section of the population who think he had a chance to be president.
America has been poisoning the well against anyone considering a commie or socialist for a hundred years it’s not going to change any time soon.
Bernie couldn’t even a primary but there’s a whole delusional section of the population who think he had a chance to be president.
You mean like Harris? Bernie, and everyone else, blew her out of the water in 2020. Maybe the Democratic establishment should have been taking your advice.
The well has also been poisoned against fascism, Russia, “coastal elites”, and rapists/pedophiles. Trump still won. Maybe you’ve lost the plot somewhere.
Biden won the first primary of 2024 and he stepped back do they had a second one and Harris won it.
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal. 👈
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Thanks for letting us know where we are in the process
Oh I’ll fully accept my role in Adam Schiff’s ratfucking of the Californian governor primaries.
Go Katie I will vote for you.
Vice President Harris or Rep. Porter would both be fantastic!
I’d love to see Katie Hill make a comeback too.
