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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?
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.