• V0ldek@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you’d want in charge of anything, much less a country?

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      I think it is a combination of:

      1. Governor of major state.
      2. Has nice hair. Real generic politician look.
      3. Polls showing “generic democrat” beating Trump.
      4. Not super old.
      5. Have I mentioned the hair?
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        2 months ago

        It’s the same symptoms among the pundits that convinced them that Ron DeSantis had a chance against Trump.

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        2 months ago

        Ya really think his hair is nice?

        I’ve felt that it falls into that Generative AI/Thomas Kinkade uncanny valley zone because it looks kind of glazed – as if embedded in a thin layer of ice – while also inhabiting a strange dimension of omnipresent ambient lighting.

        Please note: I am not in any way implying that Gavin Newsom isn’t real.

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      2 months ago

      because the US sociopolitical system, just like many other of its social systems, is disastrously sick and dysfunctional

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      Gavin was Pelosi’s pick to replace Biden, they’re both backed by the same regional California billionaires from SF to Sac. Harris is from Cali as well but her big backers are in LA.

      My head canon is Biden chose Harris as a parting FU to Pelosi.