Bob Salladay

Comms for Gavin Newsom. NorCal forever. Anecdotes are not evidence. Future tense.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. He has an effectively infinite budget for hiring researchers and fact-checkers. And yet like 50% of his utterances on here are horseshit. Please read this thread to understand how time-consuming it is to debunk them.

[Izzy Gardon @iGardon]

Per usual, Nate Silver has no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to Gavin Newsom.

(This is the same guy who confidently predicted Newsom would likely be “recalled.”)

Let’s check the record on this supposed “follower:”

Marriage equality…. moved FIRST in 2004 while national Democrats ran for cover.

Imposed a death penalty moratorium….

Legalized Marijuana…

Universal free school meals… FIRST in the nation.

Universal preschool… FIRST to add a whole new grade for every 4-year-old at scale.

Universal health coverage… FIRST to provide full-scope coverage regardless of immigration status.

CalRx insulin… FIRST to launch a manufacturing and white-labeling program to create its own insulin, launching for $11/vial.

Higher wages… first state with a $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers and $20 for fast-food workers.

AI… first to sign major safety laws and issue multiple executive orders to prepare workers for AI disruption.

Children’s online privacy… FIRST to enshrine nation-leading protections for kids online.

Gun violence prevention… FIRST to call for a constitutional amendment to address gun violence… and tax guns and ammunition to fund school safety and violence prevention.

Baby bonds… first statewide universal children’s college and career savings accounts.

Nate — he’s been leading for decades.

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Talked to @micsolana & @dodgeblake about @semafor & my most optimistic take, the gravitational pull of good journalism

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Sorry folks I’m skipping my son’s wedding to eye fuck Jaxon over there.

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

*Kicked off of food stamps

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

It's a Chevron problem. Chevron not only jacks up prices at its own gas stations, it is the main lobbyist for this bad regulatory scheme that entrenches its power.

[Joe Santagato @JoeSantagato]

What a fucking joke this has all become

[Brandon Richards 🐻 @BrandonRichards]

Free advice: Perhaps it would have more subs if it got basic facts right prior to informing their opinion. Just a thought.

[Patrick Howley @HowleyReporter]

Republican politics is now basically the same as Miriam Adelson's casino business: Bussing the elderly to places where they pull a lever

[Izzy Gardon @iGardon]

Gavin Newsom just gave a TWO-HOUR presentation, took 41 questions RAPID FIRE, and laid out a detailed budget plan for a $0 deficit THIS YEAR, a $0 deficit NEXT YEAR, and cutting California’s long-term structural deficit by 50% the year after that. 

No notes at the podium.

Every number memorized.

Nobody can do what he does right now.

Certainly not DONALD TRUMP!!!!!

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

You didn’t design shit. This is an off the shelf rebrand of a device made by Wingtech called the Revvl 7Pro 5G and was available at T-Mobile for $0. The 7Pro has been replaced by the 8Pro because this thing is over 18 months old. And this is old stock that they bought to avoid a lawsuit.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

I, GAVIN CRISTOPHER NEWSOM, AM MAKING THE LARGEST ONE-TIME INVESTMENT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA’S 175 YEAR HISTORY!!!!! I AM MAKING IT IN HONOR OF OUR PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN RESPONSE TO HIS DISGUSTING ATTACKS ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (INCLUDING MY LEARNING DISABILITY, DYSLEXIA!) THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — Governor GCN

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

Gavin keeps fighting and Gavin keeps winning

[Brandon Richards 🐻 @BrandonRichards]

Over here in California, we're playing in the big leagues. The fastest growing economy in the developed world has now in the last year:
✅ Hired the former CDC director to run the West Coast Health Alliance
✅ Hired the former US Attorney to join the best legal team
✅ Hired the former Deputy OMB Director to oversee state agency coordination & state budget
✅ Hired the former CFPB Director to launch a standalone consumer protection agency

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.

[Brandon Richards 🐻 @BrandonRichards]

LOL they highlighted random tweets from accounts with 0 or 1 like ... incredible "journalism" here from the NY Comic Book!

[Bob Salladay @rls916]

Rupert Murdoch fired most of his WSJ staff in California, and replaced it with this garbage.

[California Post @californiapost]

Shocking video shows zombie-like state of SF drug addicts https://t.co/4zSIUsVKVt

[Pepe Silvia @notafakeaddress]

@californiapost I get that the California Post hires dogshit reporters who can't find work anywhere else, but someone should tell Katie Jerkovich that video is almost 8 months old

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

FOX NEWS FORCED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM’S FRAUD FIGHTING EFFORTS HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS!

“He did put in place a hospice moratorium. He did shut down 218 hospices. Good for him.”

https://t.co/aNxbJ0mmh0

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

“9-1-1 what’s your emergency?”

“There’s someone in the house. He’s trying to kill me.”

“Okay, what I want you to do is get to your ballroom.”

“I don’t have a ballroom.”

“…Then may God have mercy on your soul.”