"Four hours of gaslighting and cursing.
"I've watched most of Newsom's latest venture in podcast politics in a four-hour-long Shawn Ryan Show interview. It was a curse-word-filled apologia of his time as governor and how everything is great in LaLa Land.
"Here are some highlights.
"Gavin Newsom is in favor of gun control, but he's not. He presided over and encouraged the dumbest decriminalization of felonies, prompting massive theft rings to prey upon shop owners, causing a mass exodus of people and retail outlets, but California is one of the toughest on crime. He's not running for president, but he is.
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"He got bamboozled by the Trump administration on COVID, but his state lost BILLIONS in fraud. He got scammed, but he's a smart businessman. His state spent billions to solve homelessness, but billions are missing, and homelessness went up. Tech entrepreneurs and major companies left California, but they're coming back because of how well he's running the state. His regressive energy policies gave California more energy than ever!
"There was little to no pushback, nor was there a scintilla of fact-checking, as Newsom held court for the four-hour show, offering up spin, distraction, and deflection against an unarmed host. In a way, Ryan did us all a favor by peacing out of his own interview by giving Newsom enough rope to hang himself so that we could get these gems.
"Shawn Ryan gave Newsom a gift of a "California-compliant SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro pistol," which Newsom enthused over, "Oh, wow. By the way, man, this is too cool, the fact you would give me this… The last thing people would expect is that I respect this gift.”
Gavin Newsom attempting to answer a simple yes/no question. pic.twitter.com/wLBlhTBe9n
. . . "Imagine if a private consortium had been handed $11 billion and told to build a rail line from L.A. to San Francisco. Given the right contractor, it would have been completed by now, including terminals, security, solar roofing, and possibly even a profit margin, potentially while under budget.
"Instead, the decision was to give it to the same folks who bring you the DMV and Caltrans road construction schedules.
"The result?
The project has produced fewer deliverables than an intern with no login credentials. (Shocked face.)
"And the price tag keeps climbing. Inflation. Material costs. “Unexpected” underground conditions. Litigation delays. You name it, the excuses are printed, bound, and preloaded into press briefings.
The Green Mirage "Supporters often wrap this train in the green flag, arguing it’s about clean energy and climate progress. That argument evaporates when you realize that not one soul has been riding it. Phantom trains don't save emissions. Pollution isn't reduced by running diesel trucks full of construction supplies across 119 miles of scorched farmland for a decade.
"There’s nothing green about wasting billions. There’s nothing sustainable about a project that can’t even sustain momentum."
Yet Californians, when given the chance to remove this man by popular vote, chose to keep him. He must have told his people that he alone gave them that beautiful coast and the coastal people believed His Loveliness.
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