AI slop refers to low-quality, mass-produced digital content—text, images, video, or audio—created by artificial intelligence with minimal human oversight.”

The primary difference between Newsom and Trump’s online behavior is that the president’s content feels authentically unhinged, a digital projection of the president’s runaway id. Newsom’s content is so cynical that his entire being feels more akin to an aggregator: recycled SEO and viral-bait content often ripped off from better sources designed for nothing more than engagement boosts.

Newsom’s politics are as unstable and desperate as his online persona. What should we do about homelessness? Provide services, but throw folks the hell out of here. Do Democrats need to support LGBTQ rights? Yes, except no. Is Israel an apartheid state? Of course, but absolutely not. We could do this all day.

Americans seem to notice the hypocrisy. Polling last month from NBC News showed that Newsom is less popular than Trump, with Trump underwater by 12 points and Newsom by 18. For comparison, Pope Leo XIV was up by 34, and Stephen Colbert was up 10 in the same poll. The least unpopular Democrat was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was down by 11. (Note that Trump’s approval rating is worse today than last month, but updated polling that includes Newsom isn’t yet available.)

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    The Dems don’t want to win and their love for candidates like Biden, Harris, and Newsome proves it. Doesn’t help that so many “progressives” also will support these parasites no matter what.

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    AOC or Jon Stewart need to run. Newsom must never win a nomination. The piece of shit is more MAGA than MTG.

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      AOC has taken the mask off long ago and Jon Stewart went full Zionist after Trump started bombing Iran so you might as well get MTG if that’s the bar.

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            None of that one minute video was support for Israel at all, do you have an actual example?

            Edit: also if possible source on whatever you are saying about AOC. Also preferably not posts on a Nazi website

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                I remember that vote and being very disappointed. However that’s one vote and she voted against the larger package that included weapons for attacking. While I don’t agree with the vote, I think if you discount someone entirely over one vote they made that they have since stated they would not vote for any further money being sent that direction, you’re making a mistake. Keep hoping for some perfection that may not exist and you’re going to be very disappointed. Learning from mistakes and changing is admirable.

                The Jon Stewart thing I don’t understand at all. Khamenei was a piece of shit. He also made fun of Suddam Hussein, despite not supporting the war at all. I am not seeing what you see in that.

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                  Stewart is celebrating Trump killing a foreign leader with a good dose of Islamophobia. If you don’t see it you’ve internalized all forms of propaganda to the point you think they’re normal.

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    You don’t have to like Gavin Newsom. I don’t particularly love him. Now is a great time to promote the living fuck out of the most progressive candidate you can find. If the hypothetical highly progressive candidate wins, then that’s great! And if they don’t, then having a strong progressive in the primary will force Newsom and any other centrists to address their issues, possibly even adopt their policies or offer them a position in an even more hypothetical Newsom administration. All of those would be good for the progressive cause.

    But.

    The next president cannot be a Republican.

    As much as you may find Newsom distasteful, you’ve got to see a meaningful difference between a President Newsom and a President Vance, Carlson, or Don Jr., and all of those are very real possibilities.

    So don’t say anything you can’t take back. Don’t actively sabotage whoever the Democratic nominee might eventually be. Try to win your primary, but acknowledge that we have more in common with each other than we do with whatever godforsaken thing is going to emerge to run as the Republican nominee.

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    Great, now “AI slop” is going to be the reason we get another republican president.

    Fucking hell, people. Get something else to cry about.