Governor calls Trump ‘Taco’ online, short for ‘Trump always chickens out’, prompted by president’s flip-flop deadlines
California governor Gavin Newsom says the state will draw new electoral maps after Donald Trump “missed” a deadline on Tuesday night in an ongoing redistricting battle between Democratic and Republican states.
In a letter sent to Trump on Monday, Newsom said he would prefer to leave the matter of congressional map-making to independent commissions, not partisan legislative bodies and emphasized that he would “happily” stand down if other states abandoned their redistricting effort. But, Newsom said: “California cannot stand idly by as this power grab unfolds.”
Several states have waded into the redistricting wars, where Newsom and other Democratic state leaders had threatened to draw retaliatory maps if Texas were to move ahead with its redistricting scheme.
Gavin Newsom is on top of his troll game.
He’s got to be getting under Trump’s skin. The worst thing you can do is ridicule a narcissist, as they hate being laughed at.
…dear god this capslock-era of political discourse is so fucking exhausting, for so many reasons
Unfortunately necessary to talk to the level so trump’s followers understand. It’s like speaking another language
It would be even funnier if they had two different handles that communicated the same data: one in a normal fashion, AND ONE THAT SHOUTS AT YOU AND ASSUMES THE COMPREHENSION LEVEL OF A TODDLER THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -GD
I don’t like this era of troll politics.
The trolls should have stayed online. And y’all were so fucking stupid to continuously discount online discourse like it wasn’t happening in the real world. Is it clear now? The internet is just a communication medium for the real world. It wasn’t just an alternate reality you could dismiss.
This is not directed at the person whose post I’m replying to. Just people who were overly dismissive of online communication spaces and the reality of social media.
I agree that the standard of behavior for politicians has fallen into the gutter, but I don’t think there’s much to gain by taking the high road.
Exactly. The Scots sang it best…'Ye take the high road and I’ll take the low road and I’ll be in Scotland before ye".
Right, what good is the respect of moderate, sane electors.
What good is it when your party loses, or just has elections outright stolen, because they’re so busy taking the high road and congratulating each other on it.
Obviously, there are not enough moderate sane electors to win elections.
Considering where we are, apparently not nearly enough.
Finally someone standing up to Taco man!