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We all know Newsom is running for President. Come on\u2026 we can admit it.<\/p>\nWe all know Newsom is running for President. Come on\u2026 we can admit it.<\/p>\n
Okay, so what\u2019s his message?<\/p>\n
His gerrymandering thing is concerning.<\/p>\n
Although I secretly admit that if they redraw the lines, my community might get taken out of Judy Chu\u2019s district and put back into a district belonging to someone who has a clue about where we are, and how our needs differ from the aristocracy in her core area.<\/p>\n
That being said, Newsom is 100% wrong. Polls suggest that the people of California oppose his redrawing the lines at this time. We supposedly have a Fair and Impartial redistricting committee put in place by the California electorate to prevent this sort of thing.<\/p>\n
That committee was voted for, by the people of California. \u201cFair<\/em> and Impartial<\/em>” has become a somewhat nebulous term these days, especially when it comes to our redistricting committee.<\/p>\n I believe that the lines were in fact gerrymandered in the last redraw. There appeared to be a concerted effort to slice up conservative Republican strongholds in the High Desert communities, and in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n Not that it mattered too much in the 2024 election. If you look at the votes that went for Trump in California, even the coastal cities were a lot redder than in past elections.<\/p>\n Newsom, in my opinion is wrong forcing this issue because he\u2019s essentially saying to the people of California, \u201cYou didn\u2019t do it right, so I\u2019m going to defy your will, the California Constitution, and I\u2019m going to do what I please,<\/em>\u201d I think there\u2019s a term for that\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact there are multiple terms for that, most of which are applied to President Trump every hour of every day. \u201cDictator”, \u201cTyrant”, \u201cKing”…<\/p>\n How is what Newsom\u2019s doing any different? In a way it underscores that in California the voters only have an illusion of choice.<\/p>\n To me it says, \u201cYou the people are in control, only so long as you do things my way. If you defy me, I\u2019m going to take away your control.<\/em>\u201d That\u2019s not a functioning Democracy, or Republic. That\u2019s the very definition of a dictatorship. Wait, isn\u2019t that one of the things the Democrat party hates about Putin?<\/p>\n Honestly, it’s not a good look for a future President. I don\u2019t care which political party you\u2019re a member of.<\/p>\n Newsom suggested on a podcast with tech journalist Kara Swisher, that Trump was going to place ICE agents at the polls in the midterm election as an act of intimidation.<\/p>\n Wait. What? How is that an act of intimidation? I thought only citizens voted in our safe<\/em>, free<\/em>, and fair<\/em> elections. Why would that be intimidating? Unless Newsom said something he shouldn\u2019t have, implicitly admitting Non-Citizens were voting in our elections.<\/p>\n Noooo that can’t be true. Non-Citizens, illegal or not, would never<\/em><\/span> vote illegally.<\/p>\n I suppose that what he meant to say was ICE presence could deter naturalized Citizens from voting. I could see that, maybe.<\/p>\n But I\u2019ve never known a naturalized citizen who was the least bit hesitant to proudly show their proof of naturalization.<\/p>\n I know a number of people who went through the citizenship process. They\u2019re Mexican, South American, Russian, Ukrainian, and Algerian. These are people I know personally.<\/p>\n Hell some of them I helped coach for their citizenship tests, and guess what? We threw them welcome parties to celebrate their achievement in becoming U.S. Citizens. One of these people I personally took with me to the polling location for a presidential election. It was his first time casting a vote in this country and I was honored to vote with him.<\/p>\n These folks went through the process, they waited their turn, and entered our country legally and with our blessing.<\/p>\n Newsom\u2019s concern about ICE possibly being at the polls could be assuaged if California implemented Voter ID.<\/p>\n I do hope that some bright Republican campaign person takes that thought and runs with it. With voter ID in place, there\u2019s no need to have ICE at the polling places is there?<\/p>\n Newsom told Politico that he believes Trump will run in 2028.<\/p>\n This is a presidential candidate?<\/p>\n Has he read the United States Constitution?<\/p>\n Just because his auntie has become fossilized in Washington D.C. doesn\u2019t mean that Presidential term limits don\u2019t apply. He claimed he\u2019s been sent two dozen Trump 2028 hats.<\/p>\n So? Sure there are people who\u2019d probably like to see Trump in office for 3 terms. However that\u2019s not likely to happen because it would require amending the Constitution.\u00a0 Changing the Constitution is a big deal and should never be taken lightly. I\u2019ll stand up with a bunch of other people from both political parties to prevent<\/strong> that.<\/p>\n Not because I\u2019m worried about Trump having a third term. But because If we open that door, I believe we open the door to amending or nullifying every other right or limitation of government power enshrined in the Constitution.<\/p>\n Like the right to free speech, freedom from unreasonable search & seizure, to bear arms, and anything else a President or political party finds inconvenient.<\/p>\n We saw in the Biden administration, and during COVID, that there are people who would, without hesitation, abridge our freedoms. We know now that censorship (a clear violation of the First amendment,) was in fact being applied to social media, & internet information sources by our Government.<\/span> We know this from testimony in congressional hearings.<\/p>\n Even with<\/em><\/strong> the Constitutional protections in place, there are breathtaking examples of misuse of power. Those misuses are not limited to the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s people were just more rabid, and less subtle in how they tried to take our freedom.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, I have questions and concerns about the Constitutionality of some of Trumps Executive Orders, and if he\u2019s over-reaching the boundaries of his office. I\u2019m also not particularly thrilled about the white house ballroom, and I personally don\u2019t like all the gold leaf he\u2019s applied to rooms in the White House.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not based in politics, it\u2019s a matter of taste and I think it looks tacky. But that\u2019s my opinion. I prefer quiet contemplative spaces and gold sparkling everywhere is distracting to me.<\/p>\n I believe Trump is as prone to all the same mistakes that power and wealth bring as anyone else. Technically he\u2019s “Nouveau riche\u201d so I\u2019ll make allowances for his flashy style. I\u2019m eternally poor, so flash is not in my repertoire.<\/p>\n Thursday and Friday in the wake of the latest school shooting, we have people demanding to take gun ownership away from all Americans. Yet, most of the recent school shootings have been carried out by a very select and specific group.<\/p>\n A group I should add that enjoys considerable legal protection and who actively attempts to censor all dissenting opinions, under the watchful eye of a particular stripe of media & government officials who are interested only in virtue signaling.<\/p>\n These people are not howling for gun control to be safe, they don\u2019t care about children or even who is doing the shooting.<\/p>\n They want the kind of censorship and oppression that\u2019s becoming commonplace in the UK, where grannies can be arrested for saying they like bacon at a muslim protest. Where little girls are arrested for defending themselves against rape in Scotland.<\/p>\n Scotland!?!<\/p>\n Of all places I’d never have expected a little girl to be arrested for defending herself. I\u2019d have expected her to be hoisted up on the shoulders of burly men in full clan colors, taken to the town square and having the mayor say \u201cGood on you lass.\u201d<\/p>\n But nope! She\u2019s arrested for protecting herself, only because some scum migrant thought he was entitled to have his filthy way with her. Had it been anyone but a muslim migrant she\u2019d be sitting home with her parents having a cup of tea. Why? Because politicians keep virtue signaling and making excuses that Muslims don\u2019t understand they\u2019re not supposed to rape women or little girls. What happened to \u201cBelieve all women?\u201d Or that violence against women mustn\u2019t be tolerated? Or that sexualization of children is bad?<\/p>\n All that goes out the window, when politicians, any politicians, can use the situation to virtue signal. Usually, they\u2019re virtue signaling to a group their either fear, or that gives them some perceived advantage with a voting block.<\/p>\n Newsom claims he\u2019s getting tough on crime, yet refuses to fully fund proposition 36. He claims it would be too costly and the state is running a deficit. Proposition 36 passed in a landslide. Something over 60%. It was the will of the people, you know, that \u201cDemocracy\u201d Newsom claims to represent…<\/p>\n It essentially reversed a soft on crime stance that permitted theft up to a certain dollar amount without being a felony. So, go to your local Target or Walmart with a calculator, stay under $900 or so and steal as much as you can. Just stay under the limit and you\u2019ll be out of jail, if you\u2019re caught, within hours.<\/p>\n At the same time, Newsom is spending millions on his gerrymandering scheme \u201cDefending against an existential threat to Democracy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Let me get this straight, he\u2019s denying democracy, to \u201cdefend” democracy?<\/p>\n He\u2019s doing this over Texas redistricting to improve representation of a two party electorate? Texas politics is not something I\u2019m at all conversant in. But if Texas is un-gerrymandering its congressional districts in an attempt to create more balanced Congressional representation, isn\u2019t that a good thing?<\/p>\n Don\u2019t even get me started on Newsom\u2019s messaging on X. He\u2019s all over the map!<\/p>\n Maybe Newsom really is a \u201cLizard Person\u201d He\u2019s certainly acting like a chameleon hanging on a flatscreen TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We all know Newsom is running for President. Come on\u2026 we can admit it. Okay, so what\u2019s his message? His gerrymandering thing is concerning. Although I secretly admit that if they redraw the lines, my community might get taken out of Judy Chu\u2019s district and put back into a district belonging to someone who has … <\/p>\n