I heard a lot of people talking shit about him starting a meme coin and that it makes him just as corrupt as Trump. And I don't think that's entirely unfair or unjustified, but at the same time I feel like that's the point. If the president can do it, why can't a governor? If it's wrong for one then it's wrong for the other. If it's no big deal then it's no big deal for either one.
If you think what he's doing is bad then do something about it. He's not a great person and I personally do not like him, but he's making a good point and basically saying "come at me bro" because he wants them to fight back so he can throw it back at them.
I'm not saying that making a meme coin is right when "my guy" does it. I'm saying it should be wrong across the board and that's the point he's trying to make.
Why do you think calling Trump bizarre is some epic own? He's a weirdo and that's genuinely part of his appeal to MAGA.
All this does is help a fascist reject grift from desperate liberal boomers who are smart enough to dislike Trump, but dumb enough to think this will do anything positive.
Nah, I'm not gonna agree to disagree like some reach across the aisle politician. I want this pathetic grifter run out of California politics permanently, or his behavior and positions will be the new standard. We need better supposed allies against Trump than a Trump wannabe.
accomplishes nothing while confusing low-information voters who don’t understand he’s satirizing the president.
"low information voter" is a term that clues me in that the author isn't worth reading. Almost as bad as the term "woke". The first time I ever heard the phrase was Rush Limbaugh and he was explicitly referring to black voters supporting Democrats.
And while I'm sure a non-racist might use it in a sentence. It's still the anti-democratic ideal that some people should be excluded from voting.
If you think that suffrage belongs only to the "deserving", instead of the universal right of everyone subject to political leadership, then you don't believe in democracy.
The label "low information voter" does not imply they should be excluded. It just recognizes they're uninformed. Which is important if we're to do anything about it.
The one thing I am learning from this is that media, to a certain extent, treats Newsom's silly Trump-mimicking similar to how they do with Trump's antics.
The gizmodo article here being the exception rather than the rule. Most articles engage and report on this quite shallowly, more talking about what is said and done, rather than the broader picture of what they are doing and why.
It's bad that they do this, and Walz is way better at trolling than Newsom, but the silver lining benefit is that Newsom doing this sucks the airtime away from Trump's attention-seeking or distraction stunts.
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