A rock band is performing and the singer sees a kid with a banner asking to play guitar with them. The singer asks him:
- Do you really know how to play guitar?
- Yeah!
- What's your favorite band?
- Guns N' Roses
What happens next is incredible.
Gavin Newsom is doing the thing corrupt politicians always do when the spotlight finally turns back on them.
He's pretending the investigation is the scandal.
It's not.
The scandal is that this man has spent his entire public life inside the gap between power and accountability, and he STILL acts stunned when somebody decides to take a peek behind the curtain.
Gavin is a product of the California lobby machine, the one that trades names and makes sure their guys win.
His whole business career was bankrolled by the billionaire Getty family. But you'll never hear Gavin rage about Getty money. He saves that for Elon.
This is a man whose entire political career is a pattern: overreach, scandal, fines for "irregular" accounting. Over and over.
He had an affair with his own appointments secretary, who happened to be the wife of his campaign manager and best friend.
Btw; she got a $10,154 city payout. Supposedly no wrongdoing. Why are taxpayers paying for Gavin's adultery?
He believes he's above the law. That if it's for the "right reasons," the law is made to be broken. That's what every dictator tells himself.
2004, he issued marriage licenses against state law. Courts voided them.
French Laundry, November 2020. He's got the whole state locked in their homes. He went after Elon for keeping Tesla open, told him to comply or get out of California, played hard-ass enforcer on national TV.
Then he drove up to Napa and threw a $400 plate dinner for lobbyists. Like cmon dude, at least pretend to believe the stuff you say on TV.
(oh and btw, multiple businesses he owns got PPP relief during covid. just saying.)
Beyond that, I don't get how anyone thinks this man is a great governor, let alone honest.
Under his nose, $20B in unemployment fraud, $800M of it mailed to people in prison cells. Has spent $24B on homelessness yet no auditor or taxpayer can tell what happened with the money or if anything changed.
The high speed rail is a running joke, $33B to $100B. No one's buying innocent OR competent.
And then there's his wife.
Her nonprofit paid her $1.8M over the years and routed another $2.1M to her OWN production company.
Then the $20M state diaper program, run through a different nonprofit she co-founded, whose co-CEO sits on her board.
Why is his wife the only person suitable for all these deals? That's family dealing, plain and simple, and it's the exact thread federal investigators are pulling on right now. Her finances. Her taxes. Her nonprofits.
So let's add it up, Gavin.
Your best friend resigned over your affair. Your chief of staff just pleaded guilty to federal fraud. You've got two ethics fines in two years and the state's own enforcer calling it a "pattern of repeated violations." Your wife is pulling millions out of nonprofits and landing state contracts. $20B in fraud walked out the door. $24B on homelessness that vanished. A bullet train that's a national punchline.
And your pitch is that the only reason anyone's asking questions is that Trump doesn't like you? And to be clear, some of these investigations started under the Biden Administration.
Come on, dude.
This is the disease with these people. Decades inside the machine, public money in, private benefit out, no consequences, and the second anyone investigates they wrap themselves in democracy and scream persecution.
But Gavin Newsom thinks scrutiny happens BENEATH him.
@nettermike My heart goes out to her and her family for their loss. I can't even imagine. But in all seriousness does she have any evidence or is it just a hunch?
💥NEW: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria *DELIVERS BRUTAL TAKEDOWN* of California’s “FAILING MODEL OF GOVERNANCE”💥
“The frustration is real and JUSTIFIED… it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more — while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.”
Honestly I think the voting laws they passed in California since 2018 are abhorrent against the fundamental principles of democracy. Legalized voting fraud is still wrong.
The unifying question that underlies all of California’s woes is this: Where did the money go?
If have the 4th largest economy in the world and the high tax rate in the United States - we should have enough money to address every single problem, with change left over.
Everything on the internet will require an ID check soon.
And the government will monitor everything you do, pretending they don't need a warrant because you "voluntarily" gave your data and identity information away.
🚨Los Angeles Election Fraud Caught on Hidden Camera
LA election petitioners were caught on tape giving homeless individuals other voters' information, instructing them to forge voter names and signatures, and offering cash and drugs as incentives to register to vote.
John Bolton, according to CNN, will plead guilty to a felony of mishandling classified information, with a fine of $2 million and possible prison time.
Bolton previously urged that Edward Snowden be executed, and Julian Assange be imprisoned for life, for informing the public.