Newsom has some balls for agreeing to Hannity as a moderator
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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When you speak the truth, you don't need a special referee. Bernie went on a Fox News town hall and got an audience to mostly all raise their hands in support of Medicare for all.
We all have more in common, once we all sober up...
You do however need an impartial one. Going on Fox to debate facts is a bit like train to explain quantum physics to a duck.
It won't work and everyone will think you're weird for trying.
Fox doesn't have right wing leadings, it's straight up propaganda. Truth and objective reality are completely irrelevant. They're the one saying trump will run from prison, which obviously he won't be allowed to do, but they say it anyway, they are not going to care about the truth.
True, but he will only do it live and that is an opportunity to reach people, and it will be obvious if they are being unfair
Looks like Lemmy has not seen Newsom debate. And apparently didn’t see Newsom school Hannity on his show last month.
Oh I'm sure that will go well.
Question one: Why is California such a shithole while Florida is not?
As a Floridian, you just have not looked in the right corners.
Welcome to Faux News, where the stories are made up and the facts don't matter.
Bad mistake Newsom. DeSantis is a giant liar debating you on a platform known for lying.
He required it to be live, that should help
I don't know California politics other than as it relates to national. What's Newsom's angle here? I ask because, at least at a glance, this seems like a loser for him. The best he can hope for is to demolish DeSantis. Let's assume he does--and it's certainly not a sure thing (the deck is stacked against him with the ref playing for the other team, after all)--but so what? DeSantis's fire is almost already out, and if it doesn't die on its own or thanks to Mr. Orange Indictment, the Mouse will finish him. Newsom's already a rising star; if he annihilates DeSantis he's basically punching down, and he's taking a huge risk by even volunteering for this, since if he fucks up he's done in national politics before he even started.
The best I can come up with is that this is a play by the party at large to try to revitalize Florida Man's campaign by getting some free press on him, either to force Trump to spend more to squash him or try to get a repeat of 1972 (i.e., Trump as Muskie). However, that's giving the Democratic party a lot of credit and making some pretty cynical assumptions about their future plans for Newsom.
Gavin Newsom wants to be president. Maybe not this cycle, but defo the next cycle
I'd happily take four more Biden years, and then eight of Newsom - neither one is anywhere near perfect/ideal, but compared to the alternative...
I'd take a rotting corpse over the Republican fascist party
I'd take a pile of monkey poop over anything conning out of the gop right now
Probably partly related to Newsom's continual use of the "pied piper" strategy, trying to boost right-wing opponents so that he doesn't have to face off against anyone left of center.
Yep, don't feed the trolls.
An SF Bay Area rich guy debating a Florida swamp chimp? I am going to smoke a nice sativa for this one… and popcorn… can’t forget that.
Hey lets not insult the Florida swamp chimps with that comparison, I propose Gitmo Ghoul.
This shows confidence. Hope we get the full uncut broadcast - I'll bootleg the hell out of this. Fox News YouTube won't get my views.
Fox Entertainment*
Newsom will soon discover what it's like to play chess against a chicken.
I’m not a big Newsom fan - I have a grudge against him for some of his decisions as governor- but if he pulls this off looking good, I will definitely be impressed.
I can’t imagine this going well. DeSantis will not properly debate, he’ll probably just try to talk over him. And Fox ‘News’ won’t do anything to properly moderate DeSantis, like muting his mic when he speaks out of turn.
I really hope I'll get to vote for Newsom for President some day.
That could be interesting.