It's just that the zeitgeist in 2026 isn't going to be particularly forgiving of the "but I'm a hedge fund billionaire, vote for me!" message.

Not after all the shit going on.

Yep.
This is all accurate.

I'd vote AOC for POTUS in a heartbeat, tbh.

Most people here only learned last week that we were even having a June election, so all those earlier polls that the national media touted were always just clickbait and doomscroll fodder.

You're seeing the electorate assess the Hilton/Bianco problem and decide Becerra is the consensus candidate.

Thurmond's my first choice.
Becerra's my second.

Steyer's my last among the Dems, only one step up from the MAGA crazies who don't have a chance in hell.

And I'm still SoCal.

Agreed.

Her private behavior has soured too many voters on her.

I could see someone erroneously gung-ho for, say, Porter arguing that Becerra's too mainstream, but there's no vantage from which one can deride Becerra as too corporate while going to bat for the literal hedge fund billionaire who made money off of private prisons and coal mining.

Where you from, kiddo?

Why tax the billionaires once when you can tax them every year?

Also, no Californian calls our state "Cali."

You'll hear that word on Biggie tracks, but never out of Kendrick's mouth.

So, like, you've never MET California, have you?

I'm kinda feeling insulted, as a lifelong California Democrat myself, by how you think my state functions.

I once heard Steyer described as an electoral cicada, and that feels pretty accurate.

He's a very rich dude from Manhattan who went to Yale.
He's never held public office and doesn't have a constituency on the ground in the Golden State.

He has money, and thinks that's why he should be in charge.

So, to be clear, your argument here is that the billionaire is the champion of the working class and definitely not paying influencers to talk him up online, but that there's a gaggle of paid BlueSky influencers talking up (checks notes) the nerdy Mexican dude whose dad was a construction worker.

Let's not pretend that the billionaire isn't the corporate candidate.

Thurmond's good too.

Thurmond and Becerra were my two. I'll accept either.

Steyer's been a staple of donor-dinner old guard Dem politics for decades.

But he's never held public office and has no constituency. He's emblematic of the exact party apparatus that we all want swept away.

He shows up every few years and throws a ton of money at ads.
That's about all he's got.

Everybody was panicking about the possibility of two MAGAts winning, and screaming that we all had to immediately support Steyer in order to stave off disaster.

I caught shit for telling everyone to calm the fuck down and that California Dems had this.

Turns out that we did.
Becerra's a good dude.

Look, last week a bunch of folks were bemoaning the California gubernatorial primary because of the clickbait narratives of the national political media and their stoking the off-chance that two MAGAts could make it through the jungle primary.

I told y'all to calm down.
I told you CA Dems had this.

The endless "If only I were prettier/more subservient/a better wife the abuse would end" mentality of the left-leaning punditry needs to fucking end.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

This is all accurate.

Mahan is charismatic, but he is himself a Silicon Valley techbro, and is probably not going to help use the stewardship of state government to rein in the worst excesses of a culture and industry that produced him.

For me, Thurmond and Becerra are the best public servants.

Microsoft, Google and Meta are among the tech companies a research firm says is frequently ignoring California's legally mandated privacy controls. People reflected on a Microsoft store in New York City on March 31, 2026. Photo by Zamek, VIEWpress via Getty Images

A new audit has found that websites across the internet may be failing to abide by California privacy law, ignoring a requirement to not track visitors who set a privacy control. cal.news/4mEXGNI

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I don't think MAGA is repentant.
Not in the slightest.

I think they recognize they're losing...
and that there's a fucking BACKLASH headed their way.

I'm sorry, but you're trying to defeat Trump and Hegseth so you do a lazy cyberattack on BlueSky?

Somebody tell the Iranians about how shit works over here.

Like, hit Palantir, muh dudes.

Both are relics of a useless elitist past that aches to hold onto power as the country evolves past them.

I'm all for burning every goddamn billionaire to the ground now.

They were always parasites, but now we can all see just how grotesque and unnecessary they are.

This legit happened. Corporations saw how much leverage we actually had and that pendulum swung back so hard

No… Tucker,

you are not welcome, forgiven, excused, or given the benefit of the doubt.

You laughed on TV while children suffered and you did it for years, because the money was good.

You can rot.

RFK Jr needs to be held liable in civil court for wrongful deaths.

And by that same token, education in the US as it stands today is also by no means a guarantee of being politically astute. I've seen PhDs and folks with all kinds of graduate degrees fall for easily debunked propaganda because it was in the New York Times.

Eugenics