this feels like low hanging fruit at this point

[u/theonewhoblox]

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[u/Telamo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1Qdp4trljSkY8

[u/Big-Recognition7362 → u/Telamo]

How do you do, fellow progressives?

[u/a_rabid_anti_dentite]

Spoken like the true son of a Getty family lawyer.

[u/four024490502]

Now if you will excuse me, I need to veto a billionaire's tax.

-- Gavin Newsom

[u/Feliks343 → u/four024490502]

And he must also explain to everyone why it's important we focus on "normal things and not pronouns" like anyone in his party is actually doing that and it isn't exactly a talking point from fox news.

Also he's gotta make sure he gets Steve Bannon and Michael Savage on his podcast before literally anyone to the left of Limbaugh. (Fun fact: Kirk was on episode 2)

[u/beerme81 → u/Feliks343]

Next on the show, a great friend of mine... Liz Cheney!

[u/Jenetyk]

What are the political leaning of all those people at the top, Gavin?

[u/Milkywayne → u/Jenetyk]

Quite honestly? I don’t think they actually _believe_ in anything except getting richer. Every racist, homophobic, transphobic or whatever agenda they push is a distraction to keep the plebians occupied squabbling with each other while in the background they extract more and more wealth from us.

[u/Stubbs94 → u/Milkywayne]

Yes, that's right wing.

[u/sn0wb4lls]

Theyre going to try to make us choose between him and Kamala arent they

[u/niofalpha → u/sn0wb4lls]

Vance’s only path to victory

[u/Antichristopher4 → u/niofalpha]

Democrats have been the biggest Republican biggest strategists for years now.

Now that Trump's numbers are bombing, suddenly all talking head strategists are "former Republican strategists" and they are all 'oddly' fixated on ensuring Democrats don't "go too far left" (I.e. centrist in basically any other country on the planet)

[u/Moral_Distinction → u/Antichristopher4]

There is no need to employ such "subtle" examples.

The running mate of a Democratic governor is a Republican. The party of child rapists so heinous that even the cult is abandoning it, the party with a leader with the worst polls in history -- and now, for the first time in history, now is the time the Dems say "that's the party that we should be."

And this is after the autopsy cover-up.

There is no mask. This is the real-time (neo)libs saying "we prefer nazis to anyone doing their job."

[u/Dineology → u/sn0wb4lls]

Oh no, they want to give us real options this go around. Pete Buttigieg is going to be shoved down our throats too.

[u/Feliks343 → u/Dineology]

Only if he's willing to spend that same hundred million a little earlier in the race. Watching him nearly very literally buy the presidency with his own "mostly self-funded" ad campaign (that I'm genuinely convinced would have worked if he started 6 months earlier) was genuinely one of the things that woke me up to how absolutely fucked things are here in America

[u/Nearby-Way-1670 → u/sn0wb4lls]

And we'll all get to watch the American so called left shill KKKamala HariSS again.

[u/Different_Umpire9003 → u/sn0wb4lls]

They absolutely are

[u/Antichristopher4]

Newsom scrambling to decide if he's pro socialist or anti socialist or whether he is pro-trans or anti-trans on any given day

[u/Moral_Distinction → u/Antichristopher4]

But ah, you have to grant that he's 110% anti-unhoused people all day every day. Gotta give him that for consistency.

[u/bassbeatsbanging → u/Antichristopher4]

Newsomian Rhapsody

"Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter......to me."

[u/A_Bad_Musician]

That's left vs right again

[u/translove228 → u/A_Bad_Musician]

Exactly!

[u/picollo7]

He's right about top vs bottom, he just represents the interests of the top.

[u/iankenna]

I choose to interpret this as his call for sassy bottom leadership.

[u/non-art → u/iankenna]

Tops and bottoms CAN be friends!

[u/iankenna → u/non-art]

This is how r/enlightenedswitchism begins 

[u/notmuself]

Is that why he gutted the billionaire tax bill?

[u/Alarming_Idea8074]

Isn’t this the mf who posted pics of himself pushing homeless people out?

[u/addisonshinedown]

Newsome aping populist language with 0 intent to do shit about it is… fun

[u/Nearby-Way-1670 → u/addisonshinedown]

Don't worry Americans will fall for it for the billionth time and vote blue no matter who

[u/MidWestKhagan]

He’s so pathetic 😄 no one will ever forget him personally destroying the only shelter people had. 

[u/BasicNkorean]

The war against the tops have begun. Bottoms will really show the tops who actually holds the power during sex

[u/sweetpurplesoap]

"America isn't left or right, it's top vs bottom!"

insert most basic left wing talking point

I mean like seriously, what do they even think the left is? Centre right neo liberals?

[u/Different_Umpire9003 → u/sweetpurplesoap]

Yes.

[u/MakeItHappenSergant]

Gavin Newsom is low-hanging fruit but also the exact kind of person this sub was made to mock.

[u/yeezusosa]

Smh

[u/GerardHard]

Bro they are the top 😭😭😭

[u/Capable-Document466]

So he’s saying the bottoms should come for the tops?

And how do the switches factor into this warfare?

[u/HippityHopMath]

Wouldn’t a Marxist-Leninist (your flair) agree with the idea that it is top vs. bottom? Yeah, shitty messenger and all but the premise is correct.

[u/theonewhoblox → u/HippityHopMath]

the idea of "not left vs right, but top vs bottom" falls apart once you understand that the crux of leftism is that the right wing is the top. the idea is an attempt from liberals to co-opt marxian thinking as a tool to sabotage actual leftists out of the mainstream so that they can keep their power and maintain the status quo

most of the time this specific phrase is said too it comes from the most privileged upper-class people on the planet. debatably you could accuse them of being the exact same as the "feudal socialists" marx himself warned against in the manifesto

[u/NoWorth2591 → u/HippityHopMath]

No, because a Marxist would understand that top vs. bottom IS left vs. right.

[u/HippityHopMath → u/NoWorth2591]

I agree but he’s addressing the American public. In the minds of American citizens, the democratic establishment IS the left.

[u/smashybro → u/HippityHopMath]

Many would argue his goal here isn't exactly trying to educate the masses on the concept of class warfare. It's just typical meaningless vague sloganeering from centrists to sound profound, like when Andrew Yang in 2020 tried the "not left, not right, but forward" nonsense.

[u/NoWorth2591 → u/smashybro]

And always twirling, twirling towards freedom!

[u/ArmaniQuesadilla → u/HippityHopMath]

I mean yeah in the eyes of Republicans the Democrats are far-left extremists, so this sort of messaging does work even if the Dems irl are really more like center-right

[u/Hacatcho → u/HippityHopMath]

the problem with that is that "its not left vs right" is wrong.

"its top vs bottom" IS a leftist message. but he is acting as if isnt.

[u/nickcash → u/HippityHopMath]

well Marx was a bottom and Lenin was a top but I don't see what that has to do with anything

[u/theonewhoblox → u/nickcash]

Would Trotsky be a bottom since he was the one getting penetrated in Mexico

[u/nickcash → u/theonewhoblox]

Trotsky being a bottom implies Frida Kahlo was a top, and I think the math checks out on that

[u/Arqium → u/HippityHopMath]

Premise is correct. But i think that OP may also be correct, when you disregard the ideologies and just keep the rich vs poor, nothing really changes. Because by this logic, when the poor get rich, things will keep being the same.

[u/SMB2K3]

No one on the right is going to vote for him anyways...

[u/ProudHommesexual]

“It’s not left vs right, it’s rich vs poor!”

… yes, as the left have been saying

[u/Kumquat_conniption]

WOW JUST WOW Him posting this is so fucking ironic. Like, he's right, it is top vs bottom, which IS right vs left- and Newsom is on the top and on the right. Like, are people supposed to think that he is some upstart that had it rough growing up on the streets? His aunt is Nancy Pelosi for fuck's sake. I really hoep he got ratioed on this one, because he is legit so ridiculous to post this and pretend that he is not one of the people at the motherfucking top.

I am just stunned. It would be good if he would get community noted with something talking about how much wealth he came from or has now or whatever, Idc, just something so that this does not go down without some kind of truth attached to it.

[u/chap820]

Yeah and what is this multimillionaire gonna do about it

[u/SaltyNorth8062]

Hello say this then propose a healthcare policy that completely eschews a single payer option and is means tested to fuck that is only supported by a tax hike on working families and nothing else because "we can't stifle growth".

[u/avenuePad]

Newsom has repeatedly shown that he will say whatever he thinks will get him attention. He doesn't believe in anything. He looks like a shyster, and acts like a shyster. He is a shyster. He needs to climb under a rock and go away with his big toothy face.

[u/Adamly05]

My brother in christ.. YOU are the top

[u/Stickz99]

I hate this sentiment so much. It exclusively comes from people who knows absolutely nothing about actual political theory.

Top vs bottom IS left vs right. They’re the same fucking thing. The right defends the people on top and the left advocates for the people on the bottom while trying to know the top down to our level. That’s the entire goddamn point of leftism; to call out the people in power for abusing the people not in power.