ICYMI - Gavin Newsom’s Sh*tposting
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie, whose piece “Is This What It Takes to Beat Trump?” examines Gavin Newsom’s latest social media strategy: shitposting. The California governor has started tweeting in the style of Donald Trump to ridicule the president and promote his new redistricting effort in California. It’s also paving the way for a potential presidential campaign in 2028. But is his comedy cutting, or just cringe?
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| 0:53.9 | And Kate, I would love to know, what do you think when politicians shitpost? It's hard for me because on the one hand, shit posting, it's the language of the internet, |
| 1:20.6 | and I'm happy they are attempting to use that language to reach voters. |
| 1:27.4 | But at the same time, I think you and I working in media are a little bit too close to to use that language. Right. To reach voters. |
| 1:31.7 | But at the same time, I think you and I working in media are a little bit too close to like how the sausage gets made in terms of how like public figures and companies and |
| 1:36.6 | corporations and brands go, the processes they go through to get tweets out there. |
| 1:44.0 | And fundamentally that it is not, |
| 1:46.2 | you know, it's not actually Wendy from Wendy's sitting down and tweeting. |
| 1:50.6 | And in the same cases as this, when a politician sits down and, you know, shitposts, |
| 1:56.3 | tweet something out of pocket, they signed off on it, but it was a team of social media coordinators |
| 2:02.3 | who were the ones ultimately typing. Yeah. And before we get too deep in it, like I did want to kind of |
| 2:07.9 | define what a shit post from a politician looks like. You know, it's memes, it's trolling Trump, |
| 2:13.1 | maybe like using some of the crazy phrases, and I got to admit viral phrases that he uses, |
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