General Discussion

Up until a month ago, I'd have been open-throated in my support of Gavin Newsom. He's my governor and his leadership through COVID (notwithstanding the stupid French Laundry B.S.) was a source of great comfort to me, watching my closest friend suffer the likes of Doug Ducey.

This recent, BIZARRE turn he's taken, platforming the proponents of literal hate speech, has completely lost me. Michael Savage was almost single-handedly responsible for brainwashing my beloved father, a JFK Democrat, into someone whose political views towards the end of his life (he passed in 2005) I barely recognized. Hadn't heard his name in years until Gavin Newsom thought it would be a good idea to feature him on his podcast a couple weeks ago.

Just like I used to pay for HBO solely to watch Bill Maher but I now consider him totally unwatchable, Gavin has now become absolutely repellent to me because of the scum he's willing to platform. He's killed his 2028 chances, if he even ever had any due to the demonization of anything associated with my great home state of California (they hate us for our freedoms!).