Posted on 06/11/2025 6:21:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
The media is trying so hard. The left-wing shills at Politico have seized on the chaos in California hoping it can be manipulated to catapult the state's Democrat governor into the national conversation.
Trump has catapulted Newsom to the front of the Democratic resistance.
The California Gov was overshadowed by Washington politics and Harris' political future. Now, he's back in the spotlight.https://t.co/3oBTeBwmPz— POLITICO (@politico) June 10, 2025
But if this is his audition for 2028, it's not going very well. California Governor Gavin Newsom is up to his armpits in another mess of his own making. The progressive poser who during his tenure as mayor managed to turn one of America's most beautiful cities into a poop-stained, needle-riddled cesspool of debauchery took those talents from San Francisco to Sacramento. The results have been nearly identical.
Billions of dollars spent to combat homelessness, only to see the homeless rate increase.
Billions of dollars spent since 2019 to build a high-speed rail that hasn't been built.
Thousands of convicted felons granted "early release."
Businesses fleeing the state twice as fast as years prior.
The highest gas prices in the country due to state regulations and "windfall profit taxes" on oil companies that are merely passed off to consumers.
And now as his state is exploding with lawless violence against state and federal officers merely doing their jobs, Newsom is attempting to turn into a tough guy. Not tough on the rioters, mind you. Tough on federal officials like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:
The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens.
This is deranged behavior.— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 8, 2025
The problem for Newsom is that progressives are no longer dealing with a political opposition that rolls over for this type of absurdity. Gone are the days of the Right attempting to lower the temperature, or participate in the caricature drawn up by the Democrat Party propagandists in mainstream media. Hegseth fired back almost immediately:
Deranged = allowing your city to burn & law enforcement to be attacked.
There is plenty of room for peaceful protest, but ZERO tolerance for attacking federal agents who are doing their job.
The National Guard, and Marines if need be, stand with ICE. https://t.co/KVjvvnaL70— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) June 8, 2025
That'll leave a mark. Particularly on any future presidential campaign. Social media, YouTube, and the rise of conservative media now makes the careful packaging of these types of situations impossible for the old guard. What Hegseth is acknowledging is what Americans are all seeing for themselves - riots, looting, and lawlessness. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt picked up Hegseth's hammer and finished driving the nails into Newsom's coffin:
In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California.
These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States.
In…— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 8, 2025
That type of context totally alters the media's desperate attempt at Newsom-friendly framing. So yes, Politico may humiliate themselves with free campaign puffery like this:
Newsom gains a step in brawl with Trump: ‘It’ll help Gavin — especially if he gets arrested’ https://t.co/QthFbKHEBA— POLITICO (@politico) June 10, 2025
…and this:
Troops deployed to LA will cost $134M, Pentagon official says https://t.co/zyfIyqx6P8— POLITICO (@politico) June 10, 2025
But no one outside their shrinking echo chamber buys what they're selling. Newsom isn't gaining a step, he's beginning to drown. And even casual observers understand that $134 million is being spent only because Newsom has created a lawless hellhole that he can't control.
Good luck running on that reputation, Gavin.
We can only HOPE that America is watching in disgust at what is happening in California, but the TDS libs I know could not care any less about it, except for the fact that people are “standing up to the evil orange man”...
A 2 minute must watch on the riots and Deep State’s useful idiot rent-a-mobs.
Warning: Language very NSFW.
But I heartily endorse everything he says.
And God bless him for saying it.
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1932567714092232921
He watched is 2028 presidential hopes incinerate with the 2025 wildfires and before that with his insane Woke policies. This is just one more log on the fire.
What a bizarre speech.
To listen to him, everything was peaceful and under control, until Trump activated the national guard.
We are being told that the violence is because of anger at Trump using the national guard. We are being told looters and rioters are doing it because of anger at Trump.
It’s hard to see how this enhances his presidential ambition.
Never underestimate the power of cheating. Left Coast Pros.
Deep State installed the POTATUS.
It can install Newsom.
Noisome is a victim of self immolation, o one outside of California needs to do anything.
Yeah, but He’s not running for another term.
But sadly, anyone the hardcore leftists would be willing to vote for will not be upholding American values.
The people in flyover country are watching this with great concern. Once the ANTIFA idiots attempt to break out of the blue cities and export their violence elsewhere, we will finally be able to use our guns. You think this isn’t being discussed in the many moments and pop restaurants?
No, he is saying nothing different than five years ago. Like BeijingBiden, he has always been this way and always will be.
End his term in office. Declare martial law over the state. Discharge all lawmakers in the Legislature. Break up each bureau/commission. Break up state into five regions with a Fed administrator for each (heh, heh; two blue coastal ones and three interior red ones.).
CaCaLand needs to be ended. It is worse than DC.
Gavin won’t play well outside of California, well maybe NY, but that’s it nationally.
YOU FORGOT HIS COMPLICIT INVOLVEMENT IN THE LA FIRES.
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