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Gavin Newsom
Newsom, Elon and Gascon
“I’m with Elon,” claimed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the wake of Musk’s lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission, but the Coiffed One was quick to clarify. “Look, I’m not helping the legal case,” the governor explained. “You can’t bring up that explicit level of politics.” In his view, the Commission should have confined its debate to the merits of the permit but that’s as far as it goes. “These »
Victory Over Communism (and California)!
You may have followed the news that California’s Governor Gavin Gruesome sought and achieved a statute, AB 2329, outlawing AI-generated “deep fake” political communications ahead of elections. This statute is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, and wouldn’t survive the first five minutes of a Supreme Court oral argument. But it takes time (and a lot of money) to get a case all the way up to the Supreme »
It only hurts when I laugh
The parody ad for Kamala Harris below is of the it only hurts when I laugh variety. It is a work of satirical art. Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY pic.twitter.com/5lBxvyTZ3o — Mr Reagan 🇺🇸 (@MrReaganUSA) July 26, 2024 In a challenge to the regime of the gruesome Gavin Newsom, Elon Musk proclaims: “The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United »
The Intersection of Doug and Arnold
As Scott noted, “Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff knocked up his daughter’s nanny in the course of his first marriage,” but don’t think such dalliance is a partisan issue. In 1986, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver, daughter of Sargent Shriver, husband of Eunice Kennedy. In 1996, Schwarzenegger had an affair with the family maid and fathered Joseph Baena. When the film star ran for governor in 2003, Maria stood by »
Newsom.Gov.Con
The Kamala Harris parody in Steve’s recent post scored millions of views and also got a rise out of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal,” Newsom posted. “I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is.” For California’s coiffed governor, this is not a new development. Back in 2019, a video of his one-time »
Harris and Newsom’s Brown Connection
With waxworks effigy Joe Biden in post-debate meltdown, Steve spots a Kamala zeitgeist, starring Harris as Joe’s successor. In this high concept, the younger Kamala, 59, has the advantage over the older Trump, 78, and only Kamala can inherit the Biden-Harris $250 million campaign warchest. For his part, Gavin Newsom is scrapping a plan to put a measure on the ballot to compete with a Republican-backed measure to reform Proposition »
Gavin Newsom’s Dream for America
There’s only one state in America with a dream – the California Dream. It’s a dream built on opportunity, a dream built on pushing boundaries and celebrating, not merely “tolerating,” diversity. That dream propelled us to the front of the pack in the world. Our values and our way of life are the antidote to the poisonous populism of the right, and to the fear and anxiety that so many »
Newsom News
Ellie Garday Holmes is out with a new book on California’s coiffed governor. To read Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, according to Bruce Bawer, is to find one’s contempt for this hideous creature skyrocketing. If he has any redeeming qualities, any special gifts, any attributes that might illuminate an admirable and recognizably human side, there’s no sign of them here. This is a man who, despite having »
Making Book on Newsom
“California Governor Gavin Newsom is currently working on a memoir, which is expected to come out sometime after the 2024 presidential election,” reports Evan Symon of the California Globe. “Memoirs are what presidential candidates bank on today,” explained literary consultant Glenn Forbes, and Newsom is “in the same corner as Obama was in 2006 or Harris in 2018,” with nothing much beyond name recognition. The governor will “probably go deep »
Bontasaurus Wrecks
California’s Chino Valley School District has established a policy of notifying parents if their children start “transitioning” to a different gender. California attorney general Rob Bonta is suing the district on the grounds that the policy: has placed transgender and gender nonconforming students in danger of imminent, irreparable harm from the consequences of forced disclosures. These students are currently under threat of being outed to their parents or guardians against »
Pompadour and Circumstance
Californians are ramping up another recall for Gov. Gavin Newsom, a good thing for America even if it fails, as in 2021. A new recall in California will divert attention from races across the country, force Democrats to spend millions. The best outcome would be a successful recall of Newsom his own self. The coiffed Democrat is a construct of the Brown, Newsom, Pelosi and Getty families, a belch from »
White Governor Supremacy
Does California Governor Gavin Newsom, the product of the “four San Francisco families – the Browns, the Newsoms, the Pelosis and the Gettys” that have dominated California politics for decades, need more power? Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, which Scott reported on here last week, will do just that. There’s more to the backstory that should be known. The California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), Proposition 209 on the 1996 ballot, eliminated »
Gavin Escuela
California Gov. Gavin Newsom attended Santa Clara University on a “partial baseball scholarship,” and as he told Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal in 2019, “the only reason I am governor of California, the only reason you are talking to me right now, is because of baseball.” That same year, veteran California commentator Dan Walters advanced other reasons Gavin Newsom might be governor of California: Newsom is succeeding someone who »
The Pangloss-Pétain Governor
In his debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed, “We’ve already established that more people are moving from Florida to California.” That caught the attention of Lee Ohanian, research fellow at the Independent Institute, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and professor of economics at UCLA. “The rate of California’s population outflow to Florida has in fact accelerated,” professor Ohanian explains. “In 2022, California had a »
The Daily Chart: Thursday’s Undercard Debate
As everyone knows, this Thursday Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis will square off in a debate on Fox News that is clearly meant to be a proxy for the presidential race a lot of people in both parties wish we would have next year. Think of it as the undercard for the heavyweight bout to follow between the aging champs hanging on past their prime. Don’t underestimate Newsom: he’ll come »
Winsom Newsom’s Kamala Word Salad Recipe
It is conventional wisdom right now that Gavin Newsom is the savior of the Democrats if Biden drops out, and it is also no secret among California Democrats that Newsom and Kamala Harris hate each other, but each perceives the other as an obstacle to their political ambitions. But its seems there’s something in the water in San Francisco that made them both blithering idiots. Context: A fire underneath a »
Gavin Biden/Joe Newsom
On his recent trip to China, California Gov. Gavin Newsom got into a pick-up basketball game and knocked over a Chinese student about half his size. In his own frequent falls, Joe Biden has yet to take down a bystander, but the two men have more in common than people might think. Consider, for example, their troubles with reading and writing. “For years, Newsom has been very open about the »