Election 2028: Perhaps Gavin Newsom Has a Chance?

 

On September 14, 2026 (had to wait three days after the obligatory commemoration of 9/11), California lame-duck governor Gavin Newsom starred in another CNN puff piece, hosted by Jake Tapper, with a lake and fly-fishing tackle. And “Starred” is the word, since the whole operation was another well-constructed psy-op by the Constantly Not News network to prop up a Democratic candidate, complete with a sweeping, aerial opening panned out over a bucolic Montana plain, with some country music in the background.

Newsom starts with a lie: “I’ve no experience in this process [running for President], so I’m going through it.”

He was a spokesman for President Joe Biden in 2024. He knows what it takes to run for Preasident, and he’s been doing since 2023, hoping to get into Biden’s good graces (Angling for the VP slot perhaps?), then betting on Kamala crashing in November so that he could step in and save the Democratic Party.

The CNN set-up was clearly that: a set-up to prop up Newsom as a man of the people who can connect with working-class and middle-class voters. Why Montana, though? The state hasn’t voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate since 1992, and just fired its last Democratic statewide officeholder in 2024.

These corporate media commercials masquerading as news are nothing new. Newsom standing in water with a weak fishing line completed the fake package. The Tapper segment gave off the same vibes as Kamala Harris’ interview with CNN in February 2019, while she was trying on different coats. How about that news spot with US Senator John Kerry hunting in 2004?

It’s old papers to many pundits: Newsom is running for President.

What’s stunning is the unrelenting bravado. Newsom will never abandon this fantasy. He is defined by vanity, stoked for the last 16 years of statewide officeholding. How can he not plunge into this far-flung ambition for the Presidency?

Every major political office he has run for, he has gotten elected. 

No matter how destroyed or decrepit the state of California has become, Newsom is a legend in his own mind, and the phenomenally fawning media will always glow up the Democratic candidate, no matter how incompetent their record of governance. 

What is Newsom’s strategy here? He’s serious, even if the real world recognizes him as unserious. What does Gavin Newsom intend to accomplish as president, or what steps does he think will get him into the White House, despite the increased media attack on his leadership and his legacy? 

 

It all started with his 2023 debate with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Fox News host Sean Hannity engaged in some subtle (and clever) manipulation by offering some moderate to softball interviews to Gavin Newsom on his show earlier that year. At first, I thought that Hannity was losing his mind or he had sold out for easy ratings. Why was he giving interviews to allow Newsom a chance to make himself look good or even halfway decent? 

Then came the major selling point: Hannity was setting him up, not to look good, but to hold a debate against the governor of one of the reddest (and most successful) states in the union: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

The clash of executives would force into full relief the ultimate red-state v. blue-state comparison.

Based on the facts, the delivery, and the commitment to truth and decency, Governor DeSantis won the debate. However, Newsom wasn’t interested in winning a debate against a red-state governor in front of red-state voters. He was sharpening his media skills to spin, deceive, gaslight, and lie outright before a national audience and impress the Democratic voter base, establishment, and donor class that he's a flawless executive who can collect his thoughts and withstand all scrutiny with a smile. 

Like Tucker Carlson’s frequent schtick of straight-up lying about prior comments, even denouncing them once confronted with the record, Newsom can ignore reality, bend the truth, and attack opponents without breaking a sweat or losing his nerve. He is a practiced con artist, making all kinds of excuses for why California is falling apart. He highlights little progress in one area, while skillfully ignoring or covering up the legacy of failure before and after what little good he can play up.

In the words of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Gavin Newsom is a plastic Ken version of Patrick Bateman from American psycho. He can lie with impunity without breaking a sweat, fidgeting his hands, blinking his eyes, or turning away from the camera. 

This kind of psychopathology can play very well with the progressive voter base as he competes for the Election 2028 Democratic nomination. 

Governor Hair-Gel is ambitious, but he plays coy like a mad seducer.  In one example of covering his tracks (barely), he toys with the notion that other Democratic contenders have a chance of running and winning. During his staged photo-op with CNN’s Tapper, Newsom pledged to support Harris if she throws her hat in the ring again (I hope she does!).

Newsom recently interviewed cocaine aficionado and laptop loser and spoiled rich man Hunter Biden, who has worked the podcast circuit to rehabilitate himself (his image, not his habits) and probably raise money since Daddy doesn’t have the rich political connections anymore. Hunter delusionally thinks he has a chance at becoming president in 2028, too. Newsome gave free press to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has nothing but a train of awkward attempts to capitalize on President Trump's positive labor policies in the Rust Belt, while at the same time pretending that she doesn't know him. That photo up where she literally hid her face behind her folder in the oval office did her no favors. 

Is Newsom sweet-talking the bench, or sizing them up to intimidate them? He has positioned himself as an anti-Trump foil, even maintaining his political and ideological distance despite a few professional interactions with President Trump during the horrendous wildfires that devoured Northern California in 2019 and then in Southern California in 2025.

He is banking on just enough common sense in the Democratic grassroots to elect someone who is not a DSA crazy, but is still committed to an anti-Trump successor who has a broad resume of executive experience. 

If his latest gloss-up on CNN is an indicator, it shows that he's all manufactured and very little man. The coiffed head and gravelly voice got him far in California, but at the end of the day, he faces the same challenges as his former AG Kamala Harris. Living and working in a liberal echo chamber all his life, he has shown neither aptitude nor interest in reaching across the aisle or working with people of different backgrounds or political bent. A few photo-ops in Flyover America won’t remedy those deficits. 

Even if he won the Democratic Party nomination, he would have the same Harris drag down. The record of California dysfunction and collapse is too stark to ignore. No matter how deep the anti-Trump animus in the Democratic Party, the anti-democratic DSA grassroots have taken such a hold that they want someone fresh and vibrant with no establishment aftertaste. 

Newsome fails on those points. But who knows what could happen in two years?

Is It OK to Hate Canada Now?

 

Blame Canada! Blame Canada! You know that everything’s gone wrong since Canada came along! --- South Park, The Movie

On September 16, 2026, the Ontario Superior Court Justice Ann Molloy convicted a Christian activist named Bill Whatcott of “willful promotion of hatred.”

What did Bill do that was so hateful? With five fellow Christians, he dressed up as a gay zombie, complete with a green skin suit and tutu, then he passed out gospel tracts disguised as condom packages to the 2016 Toronto Pride parade attendees: a silly practical joke to share the Good News. For ten years, the Canadian government has pursued and persecuted Whatcott, believing that his little evangelical escapade was a greater affront to Canadian society than, say, homeless vagrants defecating on major city streets, the destructive spread of fentanyl, or the rise of other serious crimes. In 2024, the Toronto Police Chief advised residents to leave their car keys on their front porches to avoid harm or death in the face of the city’s epidemic of car theft.

In Canada, passing out Gospel tracts is the heinous crime that must be stamped out. Yes, you can go to jail for so-called “hate speech” in Canada, too. They don’t have freedom of speech in the Great White North, despite all their supposed claims and celebrations about a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Those mere parchment guarantees guarantee nothing for the average Canadian citizen. For Christians, even less. Even Holocaust deniers have gone to jail in Canada, as well as critics of Islam. A Saskatchewan man went to jail for willful promotion of hatred against an unidentified identity group! No matter how vile or disconcerting someone’s speech may be, the proper remedy is more speech. For Canada, the answer is a jail cell, a complete violation of natural law and natural right.

The conviction of a Christian in a purported Western country, especially one outside of Europe (which has sadly maintained its own poor record on freedom of speech), is a travesty. It sickens me, and it should infuriate all of us.

My animus with Canada originates with the ongoing persecution of Mr. Whatcott, which I have written about before, but there is more reason for the rest of us to despise our northern neighbor. In 2021, Whatcott was actually declared “not guilty” of these thought-crimes! Unfortunately, unlike other Commonwealth nations, Canada permits double jeopardy. The Crown can appeal an acquittal and demand a retrial. This is insane. With such kangaroo (or bull moose?) justice, can any Canadian hope for justice if the government can keep appealing your acquittal? In theory, the government can persecute a suspect with vexatious litigation until the citizen calls it quits and goes to jail.

That is not justice.

Injustice reigns in Canada in other ways, as well.

There is no Second Amendment, so gun ownership is tenuous at best. The Justin Trudeau government issued a blanket gun confiscation scheme, and current prime minister Mark Carney has expanded on this tyranny. To their credit, some provincial governments have started pushing back, but by and large the country remains gun-shy. Despite the aversion to firearms, Canada has witnessed a disturbing increase in gun-related crimes. No kidding, eh?!

Every provincial government across the nation has also established Human Rights Tribunals, before which aggrieved citizens can drag their counterparts and demand compensation for offending them. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Whatcott to pay $55,000 to a confused man wearing a dress because he called him a “he.” The same provincial tribunal fined McDonald’s for firing an employee because she had failed to wash his hands properly. One Human Rights case dragged on for twenty-three years! Only recently, a former chairman of one of these tribunals has begun sounding the alarm on their abuses. Too little, too late.

Their healthcare system is not just abysmal; it’s evil. Instead of care, you get a waitlist, or the option to end your life. The testimony of Donovan James and his wife Kristin, who is surviving and thriving despite Stage Four ovarian cancer, should chill and outrage all of us. The Canadian system told Donovan’s wife to choose MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) instead of providing her adequate healthcare. The couple gave their government the middle finger and fled to America to live. Many Canadians do that, in fact, and there are plenty of reasons why. The wait times for a surgeon or a specialist are much longer in Canada. Michigan-born American commentator Steve Crowder’s expose of the rampant incompetence of the horrible healthcare system in Canada is entertaining if it wasn’t so devastating

Canada has been the most intransigent opponent of the United States. Last month, Vice President JD Vance remarked on the ongoing frustrations our leaders have faced just trying to work out a better trade deal with our northern neighbors. They won’t budge one bit towards better trade. They won’t negotiate in good faith with us, and they insist on keeping their Dairy Cartel and other heightened tariffs to protect their industries while shutting out our country’s goods.

Canada and its leaders have been growing closer to China, too, and even allowed their military to conduct training exercises! Canada is supposed to be our ally. Instead, they lock up Christians; they tell their citizens to tolerate crime; they offer death instead of healthcare; they fight us on trade while resisting our own national interests and reject cooperation.

Canada, a Frozen Banana Republic, and the voters are proud of this increasing hostility to the United States. After ten years of woke tyranny under Justin Trudeau, Carney repeated “Orange Man Bad” and bashed Trump, and Canadians went along with it. They have no problem voting to their own harm, just as long as they can retaliate against the United States.

The West is dying from Wokeness, the progressive leftist madness that insists on seeing disparities of any kind as discrimination, which treats absolute equality as the end goal of society, not the protection of citizens’ natural rights or even public safety. Canada is in the terminal stages of this morally bankrupt mind virus, and the citizens are proud of it! Canada officially sucks. Pardon my invective, but this wannabe runt cousin of the United States is just plain horrible. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were onto something, after all!

I never thought I would have such an abiding disdain for a nation. Mexico deserves our opprobrium for the border controversies, but that country is a better trade partner whom President Trump has knuckled under to our advantage. China is the United States’ most militant adversary, yet that country does not pretend to be free or enlightened. The European Union and its member states have their own share of issues, but a rising populist, nationalist conservative movement is making headway across the continent, and even the more liberal interests across Europe are willing to work with Trump, since Europe needs our money and military aid.

There is no such thing as “Canada Nice.” There is no “nice” in its government, and it’s time for Western countries that care about the rule of law, individual liberty, and citizen sovereignty to stop being so nice with its leaders.

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Status on AI Efforts to Prove Reimann Hypothesis (Google Gemini)

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AI Overview

Artificial intelligence has not solved the Riemann Hypothesis, but an unreleased research model of Anthropic's Claude made a notable mathematical advance on a related sub-problem in August 2026. 

(Note: While the prompt mentions the "Riemann sum"—a basic calculus method for approximating areas under curves—this recent breakthrough and the $1 million prize apply to the advanced Riemann Hypothesis about prime numbers.)

Recent AI Progress

The Breakthrough: In August 2026, Anthropic announced that an unreleased version of Claude improved a specific numerical bound related to the distribution of prime numbers (the zero-free region estimate). 
The Numbers: Claude pushed the lower bound of this estimate up from 41.6% to 67.2%. 
How It Worked: An Anthropic employee named Jared Sumner prompted the AI and provided steady, motivational encouragement while the model ran a massive, multi-agent numerical search through thousands of calculations and failed ideas. 
Mathematicians' Reactions: Experts like Oxford mathematician James Maynard noted that the result provides a genuinely interesting mathematical contribution and a useful "workaround," but it is not a direct path to solving the core hypothesis. 

Current Status of the Problem

Still Unsolved: The core hypothesis—stating that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line—remains completely unproven.
The Prize: The $1 million Millennium Prize offered for the official proof remains unclaimed.
The Limit of AI: Experts emphasize that running massive parallel computer searches for better numbers is very different from creating the deep, intuitive theoretical insights needed for a true mathematical proof. 

If you'd like to dive deeper into this topic, I can help you:

• Explain the Riemann Hypothesis in simple terms
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