WEBVTT - Newsom’s Posting Through It 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.040 Al Zon Media. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.879 All Right, it could happen here. It's me, it's Robert, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.120 and we are gathered here today to talk about one 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.720 of the most annoying things that can happen on your telephone, 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.480 which is that you can be sent a tweet from 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:24.360 Gavin Newsom. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.880 Which is just no one needed that. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.200 It's already really bad. I see really bad things on 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.839 my telephone every day. I don't need to see a 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.960 tweet from Gavin Newsom. If you're not familiar with this, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.520 you're living a better life than me, and I'm proud 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.600 of you. But I'm going to give you some context 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.200 here for those of you who are not familiar. Gavin 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.800 Newsom is the governor of California. He's also kind of 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.600 been the presumptive of twenty twenty eight Democratic candidate for 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.840 quite a while. He's term limited out running for California 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.800 governor again, so he won't be doing that, and his 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.040 term will end in January of twenty twenty seven. He 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.240 had for a while to I to dismiss claims that 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.360 he was interested in the presidency, but he's been a 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.199 lot more of about it recently. Yeh, I don't believe 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.160 any claims that he was not interested in this for 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.679 a long time. He has definitely tried to cast himself 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.160 this summer as the sort of leader of the resistance 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:20.120 type figure. Yeah, he hasn't done that by, for instance, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.279 ordering the California National Guard to go home, protecting people 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.520 from the massmen with guns snatching them in the street, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.640 or even standing up for trans kids. Instead, he has 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.399 focused on I guess what you could generously call Twitter trolling, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.480 like it's well, we're going to get into it. It's 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.640 extremely annoying. So about a week ago now, I think 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.759 the eleventh of August was when he began newso began 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.640 his social media rebrand. He did this by posting about 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.680 himself in all caps as America's favorite governor. His posts 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.440 since then have mimicked the mc donald. Trump has a 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.320 pretty distinctive posting style, right, Yeah, Newsom's have written in 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.960 all caps. Trump doesn't tend to do. Trump tends to 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.680 capitalize sporadically and as far as I can tell, entirely randomly. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.680 But Newsom's doing it in all caps. He uses over 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.280 uses exclamation marks. I should say, this beef between the 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.799 two of them is not new right. Trump has has 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.320 called him new scum on true social and I don't 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.360 think Trump can claim the intellectual property to new scum. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.120 I've seen that one. Yeah, yeah, like it's up there 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.080 with like hair Gel, Hitler and Ussolini. Like yeah, anyway, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.600 if you if you're buying a firearm in California, you 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.560 will hear someone say one of these things almost without fail. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:36.720 Yeah. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.919 The claim that Newsom's team is making is that he's 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.880 like holding up a mirror to Trump's bigot treaty by 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.919 doing this Trump style posting. But I think in doing so, 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.040 he's really illustrated the difference between them is not as 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.560 profound as you'd think or hope. He in one example 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.679 called Scott Presler Nancy Mace. It's got Presler, gay conservative 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.880 right wing figure, and then he was called out for 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.160 missed gendering presla Bay. This will shock and amaze you 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:08.120 Tommy Lauren. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:08.840 Wow. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:14.120 Yeah, which yeah, no one knows, Okay, Yeah, he responded, quote, 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:19.840 you sound woke. This really isn't funny. It's just bigotry, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.720 Like comparing gay men to women is an old, worn 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.160 out and lazy jab. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.120 Yeah. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.600 So when you combine this with him having right wing 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.160 figures like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.359 Podcast and it just for reference, folks. I don't know 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.800 how much detail we can get into legally here, but 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.360 this being our business, we are aware of the numbers 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.400 different podcasts do. And Gavin Newsom's podcast is not like 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.360 it does. Okay, but there's certain podcasts about, for example, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.560 bad people in history that lap at several times. So 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.840 like the star power that Gavin Newsom has, I'm not 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.360 seeing it. We're not talking about a guy who has 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.640 shown evidence that he is capable of on his own 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.920 generating like a super loyal fan base or continued interest 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.480 in his personality. Now I'm not saying that's that on 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.400 its own. Is it's a bad thing. A lot of 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.760 politicians who are very competent at certain things are not 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.120 competent at that, And in fact, most of the worst 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.000 politicians we have are also the people who are the 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.679 best at that and building a fan. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:23.960 Base, so to speak. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.280 But what I'm saying is that Gavin Newsom is obsessed 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.719 with doing something, being this Trumpian populist figure that he 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:38.080 has not exhibited faculty for right. Yes, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, no, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:39.600 And that's what I'm saying too. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:45.799 Is a he's confusing engagement with actual political action, right. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.600 And he's confusing the kind of engagement that you get 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.240 on social media when it's someone else's algorithm, And a 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.560 lot of the engagement is like, not people who are 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.760 going to vote for you or support you, but people 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.919 who the algorithm is pushing your content to because it 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.839 knows they'll get pissed off off by it, right, exactly 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.080 that I'm not against you know, pissing off conservatives, but 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.479 that doesn't help you necessarily, right, Like, there's not a 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.320 clear benefit to us in this. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.880 Yeah, good things piss off conservatives, but pissing off conservatives 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.760 and not inherently a good to a useful thing. It's 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:16.279 just a thing. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.360 It's not enough, right, Like, I again, it can be. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.280 I'm not sometimes that's necessary just for morale purposes alone. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.640 But again, I don't really think Gavin Newsom is making 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.640 the right scared. I don't think he's breaking their morale. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.159 I think he's just kind of creating content that people 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.080 on the left are sharing because it pisses them off. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.720 People on the right are sharing because it makes them laugh. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.039 I think they think it's sad more than anything else. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.159 And obviously You've got a chunk of like a decent 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.320 chunk of like centrist dim types who like Newsome, and 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.760 I guess maybe it's working for some of them, but 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.800 I don't think it's broadening his support. I think there's 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.359 a single voter, especially in a swing state, who was, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.000 like I wasn't wasn't going to vote for Gavin Newsom 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.800 until I saw him mimicking Donald Trump's tweets. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.000 Yeah, exactly like he is doing, in a sense what 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:16.560 Harris did, which is this consistently failed Democrat political strategy 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.360 that they seem so addicted to that no amount of 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.640 losing will break them of it, which is moving to 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.920 the right to try and capture moderate Republicans. Right, They've 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.880 done this. Everything's Trump took the Republican Party closer closer 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.400 to fascism, right. Like, I want to give an example 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:38.880 of this, his Gavin Uson talking to Sean Ryan about 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.600 transgender athletes. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.919 I'll be cannon with you. I looked at that issue 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.080 and I said, boy, they're just exploiting this. It's a 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.040 handful of people. What the hell is this? It's been weaponized. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.840 It was just another cultural issue. Intel two years ago, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.159 there was a state track championship. We had a trans 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.400 athlete that was successful and there was a video of 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.520 the girl that lost and she was devastated. Video one 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.719 around everywhere and it was very emotional. I was very real. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.240 I remember calling my team man, I said, this is legit, 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.080 and I did this podcast with Charlie Kirk. Unsurprisingly, he 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.120 brought it up and he said, tell me, that's not fair. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.760 I said, it's not fair. You're right. My party was pissed. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.240 LGBTQCCUS furious with me because I don't think it's fair. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:16.600 It's not. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.960 But because you oppose sports doesn't make you homophobic, and 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.960 my party needs to stop saying that. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.080 Yeah again, I know who he thinks this is going 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.240 to help. He believes it's a religion. Effectively, among a 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.280 lot of establishment dims that there's a whole huge chunk 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.440 of voters who are just itching to vote for a 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.480 Democrat if they weren't in favor of all of these 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.480 icky cultural issues that are hard to touch that the 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.840 right is. You know, it spends so much time harping on, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.120 and I think part of what they're seeing and where 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.800 a lot of the logical disconnect comes into effect, is 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.640 that they see how much money conservatives and time and 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.280 discourse conservatives spend talking about this and obsessing over it, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.640 and they believe, well, oh, if we if we just 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.240 kind of fold on these people, then we've taken this 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.880 great weapon out of their arsenal, and they'll be helpless 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.080 because they're stupid. And I don't think these are fundamentally 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.679 very smart people in the political sense of the world. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.480 I think they bad politicians. I think they're bad. I 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.440 think they were good politicians in terms of a competency 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.160 sense at a prior age to get to where they were, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.600 But the ground has changed, and intelligence is largely a 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.959 product of adaptability, and they have not proven adaptable. And 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.920 I think what's actually going to happen, because we've seen 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.760 this is if they throw trans people under the bus, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.880 as they're actively talking about doing, the right will grab 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.440 another chunk of their coalition and start ruthlessly trying to 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.959 destroy that group of people, and these people's suggestion will 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.200 once again be Okay, well, we got to, you know, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.400 throw those people under the bus, because then we'll deny 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.559 them that weapon, and eventually you won't have any Democrats left, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:05.280 Like yeah. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.880 Right, they'll come after same sex marriage. I'll come after 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.120 fucking interracial marriage, and Newsom will try and find the middle. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:11.480 Yeah. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.560 Like where he has received praise for this is in 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.959 the legacy media. I want to quote here from a 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.040 caw Matter's op ed, which suggests that Newsom was quote 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.559 someone trying to hold space for a hard conversation in 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.439 his podcast, He's not. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.760 You don't have conversations with Charlie Kirk. He's never had 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:28.840 a real one in his life. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.360 Yeah, the conversation is not hard to have, right, trans 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.240 people deserve the same fucking rights as everyone else. It's 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.040 very easy to have. Also, he's having this conversation with 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.000 someone who agrees with him, Like, I would love to 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.800 see him tell a young trans woman that she can't 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.240 play on the fucking third string the high school volleyball team, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.400 because then he's going to see a kid cry too. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.839 I don't want to go over the like trans people 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.280 can compete sports, like I've made my living as an 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.400 athlete for much of my life. This is bullshit, and 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.200 it's fundamentally disrespectful to women athletes to continue to suggest 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.000 it they're biologically inferior. But I do want to talk 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.240 more about Gavin you some slide into mean politics. His 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:12.959 press office claimed that after the fires in LA the 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.719 claim this in New York Times in a piece of 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:19.079 our link, he was troubled by the misinformation that came out. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.000 Apparently was his first fucking time in encountering misinformation on 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:23.440 the internet. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:24.240 Like oh wow. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.320 Yeah, Well, when you think about the ease with which 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:32.599 he lies, right, yeah, absolute comfort he has bullshitting It 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.720 sort of makes sense until it hits him. He doesn't 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.079 care because he's lying too. So they decided to take 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.240 the fight to the internet. I guess they began with 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:48.160 Star Wars memes. And then when the redistricting debate in Texas, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.880 we've covered extensively on executive disorder, was kind of reaching 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.160 his peak. Newsom sort of begun this. I know you are, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.240 you said you are, but what am I kind of 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.480 tendency in his posting, he posted in all block capitals, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.160 I'm not going to shout Donald Trump. If you do 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.960 not stand down, we will be forced to leave an 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.559 effort to redraw the maps in CAA to offset the 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.199 rigging of maps in red states. But if the other 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.480 states call off their redistricting efforts, we will do the same. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.640 Thank you for your attention on this match. Sorry, it's 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.080 hard to read because it's entirely unpunctuated apart from at 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.440 the end there these tweets aren't on his personal account 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.480 or the official governor of California one. They're on an 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.440 account called governor use some press office. But that count 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.360 does have their little gray tick mark that you can 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.760 get in Twitter now for like government accounts. Then he 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.600 moved on to AI generated images and signing his post 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.240 with initials like Trump does, claiming Kid Rock had endorsed him, 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.080 which isn't true. Incidentally, they did this exactly a year 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.680 after Donald Trump posted an AI generated image of Taylor 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.760 Swift with the Swifties for Trump montage, which shows how 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.319 much time they spend looking at Trump's post rather than 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.000 doing anything fucking useful. Then they moved onto mocking Greg 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.120 Abbott for using a wheelchair, saying he rolled over for 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:08.480 Trump again, like, you do not build a political coalition 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.320 by mocking people with disabilities. There are a million things 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.440 to fucking hate Greg Abbot, for I could spend an 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.800 hour talking about the loathsome shit that he has done, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.240 but using a wheelchair is not one of those things. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.960 If you cannot find anything else that really shows a 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.520 paucity of democratic politics. Right now, let's take a break 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:29.600 and we'll come back. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:42.440 Awesome, All right, we're back. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.880 Unfortunately, and probably predictively, Newsom has received praise from all 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:52.640 over the legacy and media for these posts. The NYT quoted, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.280 it's actually unclear of they quoted. I don't know if 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.160 this was just a mistake that they haven't corrected. But 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.480 it was phrased like she said it directly, but it 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.920 wasn't in quotation marks, so I'm a little clear. I'm 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.000 just going to assume they quoted this. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:02.280 Lady. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.480 Sarah Roberts, a director for the Center of Critical Internet 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.720 Inquiry UCLA, said quote, mister Nuisan's posts are perhaps grabbing 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.840 so much attention because they stand out for the rest 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.560 of Democratic party's ineffective approach of playing its safe and 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.440 proceeding as if it's business as usual. And then just 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.480 to double down on this useful podcast idiot John Favreau 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.880 tweeted quote, I mean it's pretty clearly a parody of 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.080 Trump's absolutely insane, all caps off to nonsensical posts. Probably 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.240 while all the people in my life you aren't political junkies, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.000 keep reaching out to say they don't know much about Newsom, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.000 but think the tweets are hilarious, humor and mockery can 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.840 be quite effective. Neither of them say what they are 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:45.720 effective for. Right, No one seems concerned that these make 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.800 no material difference, and he is doing them instead of 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.920 doing things that make material difference. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:51.640 Right. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.560 I'm going to play another clip from Chris Hayes here 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:55.079 off you. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.520 Governor Gavin Newsom and his team have figured out a 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.920 very entertaining way to deal with Donald trumpet As a 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.079 rhetorical level, They've got a new social media strategy that 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.679 is both I got to say, pretty damn funny and 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.000 I think extremely effective, mocking the president with a spot 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.360 on impression of his very weird communication stock. Since Newsom 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.600 jumped into the ongoing redistricting fight, his official Twitter account 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.520 has been posting Trump style. Donald has finished, he is 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.560 no longer hot. First the hand so tiny, and now 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.520 me Gavin C. Newson have taken away his step. Many 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.280 are saying, we can't even do the big stairs on 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.320 Air Force one anymore. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.040 Uses the little baby stairs now sad as. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.200 All the Trump trademarks, all capital letters, random quotation marks, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.680 little parentheticals, complete unhinged absurdity. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:36.560 I thought that was a good one. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.000 I hate Kid Rock GCN reference to Trump's infamous I 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.760 hate Taylor Swift, another drags a vice president to it. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.560 Not even JD just Dance Vans can save Trump from 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.000 the disastrous maps war he has started. Not even his 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.280 eyeliner lines look as pretty as California map lines. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.080 He will fail as he always does. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.720 Sad and I, the peacetime governor of our nation's favorite, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.400 will save America once again. Many are now calling me 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.480 Gavin Christopher Columbus Newsom because of the maps. Thank you 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.040 for your attention to this matter. Beyond the mockery of 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.240 Trump's text post, Newsom has also been posting Trump style 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.960 AI generated images of himself, including this I think absolute 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.600 masterpiece of Newsom, deep in a moment of reflection or 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.360 prayer bank by three Maga icons and the laying of 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.560 hands Kid Rock, who he hates, Tucker Carlson, and the 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.320 angelic spirit of the recently departed Hulk Hogan again a 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.240 spot on mockery of Trump, who isn't doing any of 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.800 this satirically. What has been equally hilarious has been to 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.400 watch the joke just go soaring over the heads of 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:34.640 Trump's sick of fants in the. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.320 Media for the last week. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.800 Gavin Newsom, and why am I giving him advice? You 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.840 had to stop it with the Twitter thing. I don't 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.320 know where his wife is. I want his wife. I 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.240 would say, you are making a fool of yourself. Stop it, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.360 Do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.040 it yourself, put the phone away and start over. And 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.360 if you want. He's got a big job as governor 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.200 of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.680 he has to be a little bit more serious. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.800 Yes, right, be more serious. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.640 Stop posting exactly like the president the United States does. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.440 Newsome's account responded to that advice quote, Dana ding Dong 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.360 Pirino never heard of her till today is melting down. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.840 Because of me. God and C. Newsom. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.400 Fox hate that I am America's most favorite governor ratings 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.960 King saving America. Trump has lost his step and Fox 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.960 is losing it because when I'm type American that wins. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.200 Thank you for your attention this matter again. It is 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.000 just it is a stark reminder with someone else doing 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.120 it of how truly utterly deranged our current president sounds 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.280 whenever he communicates and also how accustomed we've all become 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.400 to this very very weird behavior. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.560 I know, we wouldn't be talking about this suse he 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.960 was just bad tweets, Right, We're talking about it because 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.360 I think he shows a fundamental inability of the DNC 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:46.960 to meet the moment right now. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.080 Yeah, we're talking about it because people are dying and 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.000 more people will die as a result of this administration's policies. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:57.000 Other people are being imprisoned, and like I, you know, 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.760 the damage being done you know, to medical science, to 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.680 the future of humanity, to the future of this country 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.400 is tremendous and escalating. And the fact that like this 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.399 is the best a major a major contender for the 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.440 Democratic presidential candidate in twenty twenty eight has been able 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:15.840 to pull. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.399 Out so far, is like terrifying. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.159 And again, obviously no one should be reliant upon the dims. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.520 But unfortunately also like what are you got to do? 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:26.840 What am I going to do? Right? 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.720 I don't have the resources of the Democratic Party, I 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.080 don't have a bunch of elected leaders listening to me. Like, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.280 because of the status of our situation, individual people in 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.680 small groups and towns, and you know, we talk about 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.360 mutual aid on this show we talk about unions. All 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.439 of these increased personal resiliency. They increase the ability of 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.320 groups and of individuals within groups to be resilient. But 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.359 none of that is going to stop the fucking DHS 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.919 from turning into the SS. Right, Yeah, and the Democratic 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.560 Party clearly fucking isn't either. But the fact that this 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:05.760 is what they're doing instead of effective resistance is I mean, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.840 it's important. I wish there was more to say than 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.160 we should know how badly they're failing. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.480 Us, right, Yeah, like a world where Democrat gets elected 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.119 in twenty twenty eight, it's getting less awful less quickly, 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.359 and we should want yes, right, Like, I'm not one 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.000 of these Like acceleration is no. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.280 I just I don't think that's going to help either. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.520 Yeah, yeah, right, look right now, it is accelerating, and 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:41.640 it is bad. There are so many obvious challenges Democrats 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.560 can make. And I want to play Robert, have you 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.320 seen this Graham Planter for Senate campaign? 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.200 Ad? No, may not? 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.840 All right, I'm going to play this for you, Like 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.679 I think it's it's good as a contrast, right. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.480 But I love most about many of the people I 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.359 have never met, people who are more hard scrabble, even 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.760 in a place that requires you to work like two 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.000 or three different jobs. We have watched this state become 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:11.000 essentially unlivable for working class people, and it makes me 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.280 deeply angry. My name is Graham Plattner, and I'm running 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.560 for US Senate and Maine to defeat Susan Collins. A 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.400 decade of military service, going overseas, farming oysters to feed 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.440 my community, diving to lend a hand to other fishermen, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.520 trying to start a family. But everywhere I've gone, it 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.480 seems like the fabric of what holds us together is 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.960 being ripped apart by billionaires and corrupt politicians profiting off 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.520 of destroying our environment, driving our families into poverty, and 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.919 crushing the middle class. I did four infantry tours in 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.200 the Marine Corps in the Army. I'm not afraid to 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.040 name an enemy, and the enemy is the oligarchy. It's 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.760 the billionaires who pay for it, the politicians who sell 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.440 us out. And yeah, that means politicians like Susan Collins. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.320 I'm not fooled by this fake charade of Collins deliberations 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.400 and moderation. The difference between Susan Collins and Ted Cruz 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.959 is at least Ted Cruz is honest about selling us 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.119 out and not giving a damn. People know that the 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.720 system is screwing them. They know it in their bones. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.040 Nobody I know around here can afford a house. Healthcare 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.280 is a disaster. Hospitals are closing. We have watched all 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.560 of that get ripped away from us, and everyone just 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.720 trying to keep it all together. Why can't we have 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.920 universal health care like every other. 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:22.720 First world country. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.880 Why can't we take care of our veterans when they 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.600 come home. Why are we funding endless wars and bombing children? 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.879 Why are CEO is more powerful than unions? We fought 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.000 three different wars since the last time we raised a 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.200 minimum wage. I'm not pretending to have all the answers, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.000 but I know that I'm asking the very questions. When 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.119 I tell people around here that I'm running for Senate, 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:48.480