Gavin Newsom—Neoliberal Crusader Rabbit?
Why I Neither Like Nor Trust California's "Superhero Governor"
As usual, the genesis of this post is somebody else’s Substack post—in this case,
’s admiring post of California Governor Gavin Newsom, and how he’s “courageously” taking on Donald Fucking Trump at the moment.First off? JoJo From Jerz, real name “Joanne Carducci”, was one of the first political Substacks I read and subscribed to, and one I still read. She’s got close to 100K subscribers (about a thousand times more than I do, deservedly), and 99.9% of the time I agree with what she has to say, and the rest of the time I think she’s made a good point even if I don’t agree with it. I had to cancel all my subscriptions thanks to The Divorce That Never Ends nearly beggaring me (at this point, I think I owe my soul to my divorce lawyer!), and assuming my finances ever stabilize again she, along with
’ Rohn Kenyatta who I’ve written about before, are among the first I’ll pay to re-subscribe to again.I agree with her completely regarding the sycophantic moral and professional failures of the Felonious Traitor Trump Regime, desperate to defend their pants-shitting God-King no matter what threat to democracy he poses—including the Supreme Court majority that we currently have thanks to such Great American Heroes as Schmuck Schumer, who let Mitch McConnell pick Federal judges without so much as a token protest in 2018 because he wanted to go on vacation! These people are scum, and deserve to be treated as such—and, sure, that’s where I’m glad to see Gavin Newsom come out of his “Bothsidesism” Podcast Booth to actually call out an Evil Putin-Sucking Motherfucker like Donald Trump, and all who ever supported him.
So what’s my beef with her? It’s this:
I mean—What in The Drooling Hero-Worship Fuck even is this? Yes, I know it’s an AI image of Newsom, next to a propaganda photo of Russian Autocrat, and all-around homophobic warmongering fuckhead, Vladimir Putin, both shirtless, ripped like Schwarzenegger in his prime, and looking ready to do battle with…whoever is their enemy at the moment. I put the two images together to make a point, which is—WHAT IN THE DROOLING HERO-WORSHIP FUCK EVEN IS THIS??????
JoJo goes on to say:
You’re not marrying him. You’re not having his kids. You don’t have to wake up next to him (no matter how much you may want to). He just has to be better than what the other side is offering
And that’s the problem—and why Donald Trump is now a two-term President, because too many Democrats are willing to settle for “better than what the other side is offering”. That’s not enough, and hasn’t been since “Slick Willie” Clinton tried to lead America as a “Moderate” (aka, “Mostly, a Republican”), and got impeached by the Republican Majority who hated his guts!
Because no matter what JoJo thinks? That’s exactly what we’re asking for.
I doubt Newsom would be beating his chest, wrestling Trump like he was a stuffed tiger, and yodeling like Tarzan if he really-o, truly-o didn’t want to be President so badly that we can taste his lust for power. And, predictably, the Corporate Clinton Neoliberal Democratic Party, those assholes who are so popular with the American People that their approval rating is lower than Donald Trump’s, whose own approval rating is right down there with the worst Presidents since they started approval ratings, are already looking to “draft” him for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
This is Gavin Newsom, that guy who fucked over California’s unions (Google’s AI called their relationship “nuanced and sometimes contentious”, which deserves an award for ironic understatement!), who’s embraced transphobia,
and who hosted a podcast where he invited the Maggoty-ist of MAGAts to come on and spew their hate. He is a Corporate Neoliberal to his bones, and they are the reason the Democratic Party is so cosmically unpopular right now—that, and the fact that the DNC never met a principle they wouldn’t throw under the bus for an imagined momentary advantage.
I get a lot of shit for my support of Bernie Sanders, AOC, and every woman (geez, Bernie aside, they are all women, aren’t they?) who makes up “The Squad” of non-White Progressive Democrats. But they, and not Gavin “Oh, let me do the Minimum Daily Requirement of Moral Courage if I Want to Go National!” Newsom, are who the rank & file Democrats are listening to and yearning for now.
What Newsom is doing should not be seen as “heroic”, but as what every Democrat should be doing, every hour of every day, until Trump melts into the floor like The Wicked Witch of the West—and that goes double for every geriatric, pro-stock trading in Congress, cowardly Clinton Neoliberal who deserves to be primaried out of existence.
As for people like that punk on Instagram who said, “Bernie Sanders never attacks Trump Derp Derp Derp!”?
And yes, I am going to post this on Instagram as soon as I’m done here.
A few weeks back I got my first paid subscriber—and two weeks later, Substack informed me that she had filed a claim that the charge was fraudulent, so now I not only owe her the money she spent, but a “service fee” on top of it.
So, I would really love it if you would either subscribe (and not file a claim calling me a fraud afterwards!), or if you would buy me a Coffee….
I supported Harris (and Hilary) every way I knew how. She (same as Hilary) would be an infinitely better president than the fascist (and I would be delighted if AOC can win the general election to become president).
Problem was, Harris demonstrated in 2020 that she could not win a significant number of primary votes. Instead, her 2020 primary campaign was an airball. In 2024, Harris was foisted upon the Dems by Joe Biden, without the benefit of any primary contest at all to learn who could actually win votes, especially swing voters in swing states. Harris won almost exclusively votes from people (like me) who are going to vote Dem no matter what. Among swing voters in swing states, her campaign was once again an airball. The whole thing was a self-inflicted (mostly from Biden) fatal wound for the Dem Party.
This is not (for me) about gender or ethnicity. It is about the ability to win, as demonstrated in the primary process. You gotta' play the games, to find out who can win. If that candidate is Newsom, so be it (and I dearly wish Bernie was 20 years younger).
Not groping for more unelectable candidates like Hilary, or Harris. If you have electable Dems to recommend, I am all ears.