Newsom is a putrid bag of ambition with bad hair but the one thing he understands that precious few others in the party do is that it pays to be visibly fighting at all times
would he actually be any good? of course not, but for people desperate for a fighter someone who pretends to will suffice
that said I look forward to him and his terrible hair eating shit in the 2028 primary when everyone outside California figures out what an empty suit he is
Someone on Ye Olde Hellsite called him a "cocaine goblin" and now whenever I read "Governor Newsom" it's autobrained to "Governor Cocaine Goblin Newsom."
The actual best analogue for The Smiler is Pete Buttigieg, down to the fact that he bulldozed 1000 houses in low income neighborhoods rather than fixing them up.
I’m pretty sure that while he draws from a number of influences he’s mostly modeled on Tony Blair… but wow the look AND the character really do fit Newsom to a T
as an outsider to CA politics who isn't all that familiar with Newsom
is he better or worse than GOP-sided empty bags of ambition like Cruz and DeSantis?
He’s better, in that the constraints he must operate under are more progressive, but he skews toward the money when he thinks people aren’t looking. It’s all China Town here when it comes down to it; you don’t become CalGov without understanding your role in that.
Two examples into his true character if you want to dig: The way he’s been treating the state scientists union is appalling when you consider his supposed environmental agenda. Similarly, his PUC has been making terrible electric rate policy which undermines his stated decarbonization goals.
ooh ooh don't forget he rolled over for Trump and called the national guard in to oversee the police doing violence to us during the George Floyd protests, that was super fun!
At present I feel like to the extent any of the rest of us know who that is, it's because Jorts the buttered cat yelled at him a lot for being anti farmworker.
I remember my Texas relatives looking forward to the rest of the country realizing W was an empty vessel when he went national. Alas, it didn’t work out that way.
He's slick like John Edwards and Bill Clinton. We see them as greasy now but back during their heyday they were quite popular. My gut says he's got more than a few skeletons in his closet and I expect that his ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle knows at least one of them.
I mean, there was the time he had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife, but everyone knows about that one.
There’s also the part where he’s beholden to Gordon Getty. But that’s not exactly fresh news either.
"when everyone outside California figures out what an empty suit he is"
This was basically DeSantis just swap California with Florida, was my point. Not that they're similar in any other tangible way.
