"Newsom isn’t the boss. He’s not the guy who owns the plantation. He’s more like the overseer."

 Gavin Newsom Is Now the Simon Legree of Modern American Politics

"Until it happened in real life, the idea that California’s governor would have come out publicly in defense of child trafficking and forced labor on illegal drug farms in his state would have been relegated to the dustbin of the absurd.

"But of course, the absurd is real life in Gavin Newsom’s California…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed tear gas.

“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum,” Newsom wrote on X in response to a video from KTLA of protesters and apparent targets of the raid running from tear gas sprayed by officers in Camarillo, Calif.

Trump administration officials hit back at the governor’s comment.

“Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?” the account for the Department of Homeland Security replied.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said 10 minors in the country illegally were found at the facility, which he said is “now under investigation for child labor violations.”

“This is Newsom’s California,” Scott wrote. 

"And when the absurd rears its head, it’s rightly ridiculed by the sane"

. . ."The President of Glass House Farms, the cannabis farm that federal immigration authorities raided in California on Thursday despite protests, has donated thousands to Democrats in California.Co-founder, president, and board director Graham Farrar, who self-identifies on social media as residing in Santa Barbara, California, has made numerous political donations to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., according to Federal Election Commission records.According to California public campaign finance records, he also donated $10,000 to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, and his most recent public political donation was to California Democratic Assemblymember Gregg Hart in July 2023."

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