For years, Donald Trump has leaned on all-caps social media posts to grab attention online.

His Truth Social feed often reads like a never-ending shouting match. However, that changed after Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) began mocking the president’s style in dozens of posts interspersed among his regular missives.

This has been going on for the better part of a week, and seems to have gotten to Trump’s ego, as his latest Truth Social posts aren’t in his classic all-caps style.

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    It’s because he’s the only one actually doing anything. It sucks that he’s the one who is doing it, but we should be encouraging the behavior instead of shitting on the only person giving Trump the middle finger.

    Is he perfect? Hell no. But don’t let perfect stand in the way of good. Well, maybe not good, but not a genocidal fascist.

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      My one hope there is that Dems will pick up on the fact that the only people getting noticed in their party are the people who are at least fucking trying.

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        “Stop trying so hard, people are noticing and it’s making the rest of us look bad” ~establishment Dems, probably

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      This. He’s not a progressive dem, and he won’t win me over against mostother candidates. However, how he is getting under Trump’s skin should be a blueprint for every other D out there if they want a fighting chance in the midterms and forward.

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      It’s also likely because all of the billionaires running media companies want him as the next Dem choice, so his headlines stick around.

      Plenty of Progressives make noise, too, but they’re never given any screen time.

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      When they go low, kick them directly in the fucking teeth.

      Would ne better if it were not newsom, but stop playing chess with fascist assholes and start aiming for the nuts works for me. Whatever vile underhanded shit fascism cultists want to do, do it to them twice. Be ruthless. Make the only answer a law that prevents it from happening again on either side. No wiggle room, no honor, just knock a bully on his ass and don’t let him up. Otherwise we will walk the high road right to uncontested authoritarianism.