Gavin Newsom is Attempting to Play on a Stage Well Above His Pay Grade

On the heels of Democrats’ huge presidential loss last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom doubled down on stupid. He doubled down on arrogance, on smug bravado, on foolishness, on indiscrete loony ideas and policies.

Perhaps before Newsom gets too full of himself, he should at least acknowledge that millions more Californians rejected his and Democrats’ dangerous Anti-American agenda. Yes, even California is not nearly as blue as it once was, thanks to Gavin Newsom.

Notably, as SF Gate reported earlier Monday, “With 72% of votes counted in California as of Monday morning, a total of eight counties have flipped from blue in 2020 to red in 2024. After leaning toward Trump late last week, both Orange County and Nevada County are now showing Harris ahead. The eight counties that shifted to Trump this year, per the current tally, are:

—Riverside County
—Butte County
—San Joaquin County
—Inyo County
—San Bernardino
—Merced County
—Stanislaus County
—Fresno County

Impressive.

California has become the poster child for Democrat failures, and voters apparently got tired of this. Whether the issues are soft-on-crime policies resulting in more crime, liberal drug policies resulting in more open air drug use, allowing drug-addicted vagrants’ living on the streets resulting in an explosion of drug-addicted homeless vagrants, or crappy public schools indoctrinating innocent children, it is evident that Democrats don’t know how to govern, and they really don’t care what the results are as long as they are in power and control. So they pivot to useless policies like climate change and adding regulations to mean ‘ol businesses, to distract from their disasters.

Following Tuesday’s Presidential election-rejection of Kamala Harris, Newsom immediately threatened President- Elect Donald Trump in this message on X:

“…but let there be no mistake, we intend to stand with states across our nation to defend our Constitution and uphold the rule of law. Federalism is the cornerstone of our democracy. It’s the United STATES of America.”

Oh, the states are now so important? Because all we’ve heard from Gavin Newsom is how under his control, California is a “nation state,” and how California is the “5th largest economy in the world.” But now California is just a state among states? Hail Federalism?

Gavin Newsom is attempting to play on a stage well above his pay grade. The country witnessed this when he had that disastrous debate with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the First Partner Mrs. Newsom had to pull him off of the stage.

Newsom has his own statewide failures to deal with, which should be his only priorities, with two years left on his term.

As we continually remind California residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the compliant leftist Democrat Supermajority in the California Legislature closed your children’s schools, shut down your businesses, ordered your churches closed, cancelled holidays, masked your kids, mandated Covid shots to go back to work and school… while they exempted themselves from these mandates.

Here are a few more highlights:

Gov. Newsom is forcing the oil and gas industry into shortages with Venezuela-like price and inventory controls on oil refineries.

In doing so, Newsom actually managed to chase two oil companies out of California – Chevron and Phillips 66.

Newsom’s $20 per hour fast-food minimum wage is tanking the fast food industry.

Here’s the link to the short list with headlines from the Globe’s reporting including Newsom Signs Dangerous Parent Secrecy Bill AB 1955.

Here is what Gavin Newsom has been up to since being elected governor in 2019:

Doubled the drug-addicted vagrant population living on California’s streets.

Created a housing shortage – doubling down on forcing cities and small towns to comply with his order to build “affordable housing.”

Cut water off to rural areas in the state; supported dam removal and hydroelectric plant removal.

Limited water deliveries to farmers and ranchers.

Raised the minimum wage so high, fast food owners and restaurant owners are forced to lay off employees.

Passed policies killing manufacturing.

Passed policies bolstering a service economy (rather than manufacturing).

Limited energy production to renewable energy only.

Limited gas and oil production creating a shortage, forcing people out of their cars and on to public transportation.

Ordered all internal combustion cars banned by 2035.

Mandated an all-electric state, including autos and trucks.

Signed bill to install thousands of floating offshore wind turbines at a cost of $150 billion.

Legalized drugs.

Legalized sex with minors.

Legalized abortion up to baby’s birth.

Destroyed the public education system by watering down actual disciplines of math and English, while sending his own children to private schools.

Promotes affirmative action, racial preferences over merit.

Creates fake crises – climate change, reparations.

Infringed on the people’s right to keep and bear arms by passing laws which nibble around the edges of the 2nd Amendment, creating defacto gun control.

Californians must never forget Newsom’s horrific leftist policies that harm men, women and children. And this is not a complete list, by any stretch.

Since Donald Trump’s election 7 days ago, Newsom has done nothing but whimper and grouse about Trump, in his attempt to be the menace-in-chief with threats of resistance.

Speaking of resistance, Joel Pollak at Breitbart says “Newsom may try to become the leader of the so-called ‘resistance’ to Trump — a glorified and controversial term for ‘opposition’ — but it may prove more difficult for him, given that Trump won a popular majority, and nearly 40% of the vote in California itself.”

Newsom will travel to Washington D.C. this week to meet with the Biden administration to discuss zero-emission vehicles and disaster relief, seeking federal approval for his state climate rules – ahead of the change of Presidential administrations – a $5.2 billion reimbursement for emergency funding during the COVID-19 pandemic and updates to the state’s Medicaid program, KCRA reported.

COVID-19 reimbursement? Because Newsom kept the state locked down for three years longer than other states?

Meanwhile, someday Gavin Newsom may tackle the many serious issues within the borders of California – many/most he created.

…Naw, he’s too busy daydreaming of far away places on the international stage – way way way above his pay grade.