Gov. Newsom Resorts to Hyperbole and Hysteria on Target’s PRIDE Clothing Controversy

The outrage over Target stores pushing the LGBTQ and transgender agenda has morphed beyond just t-shirts with rainbow queer-friendly sayings, or the Pride Adult Drag Queen ‘Trixie Mattel’ Short Sleeve T-Shirt, the Toddler Bien Proud Short Sleeve T-Shirt, the Baby Bien Proud Bodysuit, and the “tuck-friendly” bathing suits for infants and toddlers.

Way to read the room Target. It’s mostly women and moms who shop at Target for their families who are objecting to introducing children to boys wearing girls swimsuits “tucking” their penises into a pouch.*

Triggered parents are posting videos on social media, of the “pride” emblazoned items, and trans-friendly clothing pitched by Target’s “pride” collection.

This mom is mad as hell:

Target has gone completely woke. They’re now selling tucking and binding clothing for little kids. pic.twitter.com/MQZ1YDhm0f

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 23, 2023

The fury has been so widespread, Target stores across the country began moving the “tuck-friendly” swimsuits to the back of many stores Wednesday.

Not to be outdone by the angered parents, State Senator Scott Wiener, who is not a parent, weighed in on Twitter, expressing his own shock and called parents “terrorists.” But Wiener isn’t mad at Target, he is angry at the adults unhappy with the retailers’ aggressive advocacy and inappropriate trans clothing for toddlers. He tweeted:

“Target is removing LGBTQ Pride products because of terrorist behavior like this. Yes, this is absolutely terrorism & Target should be ashamed for caving in. Just like Anheuser Busch caved in. And people wonder why there’s so much fear in our community.”

Target is removing LGBTQ Pride products because of terrorist behavior like this.

Yes, this is absolutely terrorism & Target should be ashamed for caving in. Just like Anheuser Busch caved in.

And people wonder why there’s so much fear in our community. pic.twitter.com/0kMab9s44k

— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) May 24, 2023

Not to be outdone by Sen. Wiener, California Governor Gavin Newsom weighed in with some hyperbole of his own:

“CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage. This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country. Wake up America. This doesn’t stop here. You’re black? You’re Asian? You’re Jewish? You’re a woman? You’re next.”

CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage.

This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country.

Wake up America.

This doesn’t stop here.… https://t.co/1vRgukaT0g

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 24, 2023

Newsom actually claimed that parents upset with “tuck-friendly” swimsuits is “a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country.”

And then he predicted a racial bias outcome:

“This doesn’t stop here. You’re black? You’re Asian? You’re Jewish? You’re a woman? You’re next.”

Way to read the room Governor.

As offensive and out of touch California’s governor is with regular people who shop at Target, of the 14 million views, and 20,100 comments on his tone-deaf Tweet, Newsom heard from the regular people, as well as from some notables.

Dave Rubin, also gay, asked Newsom if he is a lizard person:

Are you a lizard person? pic.twitter.com/e3btBv3uzc

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) May 24, 2023

Rubin also left California for Florida not long ago. You can guess why.

Here are a few of the 20,000 replies:

Ashley Muñoz: “Chopping off breasts and selling swimsuits for boys to tuck their wieners in, is an extremist view.”

Perhaps Gov. Newsom is just once again attempting to deflect and distract from his own extremely serious problems in California.

While Gov. Newsom throws punches at Red State governors, and obsesses with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, here is a sampling of the mess Newsom has made in California:

• California is home to one-third of the nations’ welfare recipients and has the highest poverty;
• Our failing schools now rank 48th in the country;
• California lawmakers can’t build new homes or apartments for less than $800,000 each (luxury level costs);
• The governor and lawmakers can’t figure out what to do with several hundred thousand drug-addicted, mentally ill homeless vagrants living on city streets and taking over public parks;
• California lawmakers refuse to build additional reservoirs for water storage in a state in which drought conditions are historically normal, and now has a regular wildfire “season;”
• California lawmakers and governor mandated all electric vehicles within a few years, but can’t keep the power on during heat spells and winter storms;
• Lawmakers authorized more than $25 million worth of taxpayer-funded guaranteed income to some individuals in the state, but can’t really tell you why.
• Proposed $800 billion in reparations payments to African-Americans, despite that California was never a slave state.
• California has a $34 billion deficit—and it’s growing.
• The state’s $100+ billion high-speed rail project is mostly dormant.
• California has the highest income tax rates in the nation.
• California also has the highest sales taxes, electricity rates, gas taxes in the country.

And as Victor Davis Hanson just wrote at American Greatness:

“Crime, homelessness, and medieval decay characterize the once great downtowns of San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is now not safe to walk alone in any major California city after dark.”

“Shoplifting and smash-and-grab theft are no longer treated as real crimes. The result is the mass flight of brand stores from our downtowns and inner cities, with all the accustomed cries of “racism,” even as racist public prosecutors pick and choose whether to indict the arrested on the basis of race.

“California infrastructure, once the best in the county, is now among the worst. Decaying and crowded freeways, inadequate water storage, and pot-holed streets are the new norm. Once robust gas, oil, mining, and timber industries are nearly inert.”

And Gov. Newsom uses Twitter to try to gin up racial and gender bigotry – a thin pretense for his own deficient record. We expect this hyperbole and drivel from Senator Wiener, but the governor, who wants to be President, is showing just how empty his suit is.

*Target loses $9B in week following boycott calls over LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing, the New York Post is reporting.