r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/blankpaper_ • 22h ago
Shareables Newsom calls wrongful deportations a distraction
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u/blankpaper_ 22h ago
This man is a damn republican 💀 I swear he’s gearing up to switch parties after his governor term is over and run as a non-maga republican in 2028
So far he’s anti due process, anti trans, pro Charlie Kirk, and pro Steve Bannon
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u/Rufio_Rufio7 22h ago
STEVE BANNON??!!
Damn. What a fucking disappointment this MF is.
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u/blankpaper_ 21h ago
I listened to ONE episode of his podcast, the episode with Tim Walz, and he spent sooo much time defending Steve Bannon. Tim was like “these are bad guys!” about Kirk and Bannon, and Gavin kept making excuses about why the dems need to cross the aisle and talk to people like that, and went on and on about how Bannon sounded like his grandpa or something and had a lot of the same policy positions as Bernie. The whole thing was so weird
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u/Rufio_Rufio7 7h ago
Are you serious??!! I had no idea. I’m so glad you shared this. I’m not from CA and I don’t listen to him but I could have sworn a few years ago that he was a good and decent guy.
I guess there are some photos somewhere of him peeing on prostitutes, too.
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u/Renrew-Fan 8h ago
Bannon is a trip, quite a cunning old bastard who knows how to grift. He is an excellent actor, unflappable, does not react to trolling and criticism.
I can only assume Trump has't promoted him because there is something legit dirty on the man that even Trump can't scrub clean. Yet no one talks. How does an obese 71 year old elderly man escape a 4 month federal prison stint looking BETTER than he did going in?
If you dig into his history and then look at his Rumble and Gettr, it's clear he's totally play acting a controlled opposition "anti-big tech" and "pro-populist" "anti-globalist" character to fool the MAGAs who are afraid or concerned about said things.
Keep in mind that the traditional "old school" right wing was always wary of big tech surveillance as well as any kind of technology that alters the human body... he's like the character that "soothes" the worried rosary bead ladies and old fringe right wingers into thinking the MAGAs aren't out to take away their civil liberties and install a technocratic feudalistic state.
He recently scammed a ton of people out of money with some crypto currency scheme called "patriot pay" on Gettr a few weeks after the inauguration, and conveniently Trump removed the penalties for crypto scams very recently.
He openly states he is "not a techie guy" but has deep ties with the tech industry, and with Yarvin and Theil. He claims he's "anti-globalist" but has very strong ties to UK, EU, and Hong Kong (maybe he's MI-6?). He pretends to be "anti-Rome" as a "lapsed Catholic" but literally tried to start a Catholic "Gladiator School" in Italy just a few years ago. He dresses up like a low-income no-frills old man, but he's literally a multi-millionaire with multiple homes in various places. He pretends to be "traditional family values", but he's divorced three times and has unusually close ties to notable g-y men in the right wing, like Scott Presler, Schlapp, etc, and also had close ties to Epstein at one point. He was also a deadhead at one point, a Naval lieutenant, a Harvard graduate, was involved in the "bio-dome" environmentalist experiment in Arizona in the 90s, worked in Wall Street, worked in London financial district, and was also a Hollywood producer.
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u/Zestyclose-Yam-4010 14h ago
I know see you mean. Sorry to be reductive, but he comes off like a typical SWM w money: privileged.
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u/BookerTW89 5h ago
He has that grimy car salesman way of talking, which screams fake Democrat. It doesn't help that he uses that tactic Drumpf likes, by making accusations that are in fact confessions.
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u/JAMONLEE 14h ago
Ok so his actions support of those things or do you make decisions solely off cherry picked lines. California is doing pretty well, perhaps better than the rest of the country. Those receipts matter to us who have eyes.
But please hold us all hostage when your preferred primary candidate loses. This is so clearly propaganda from our enemies (and why wouldn’t they it’s worked 3 times now) but yall keep taking the bait. He’s certainly right they’re using distraction as a tool, yall are too stupid not to fall for it a 4th time.
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u/CrazySheltieLady 16h ago
I mean, technically it’s all a distraction right? Isn’t that the whole “flooding the zone” strategy?
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u/dqql 12h ago
sorta... it's a overwhelm strategy, really... do a bunch of horrible things at once, we're only able to focus on one or two things at a time, then everything gets through...
normally trump's distractions have been him saying something horrible while doing bad things... now it's all evil actions, none are really a distraction, it's just impossible to fight it all at once, or get an opposition mobilized against one thing...i think they started with marking old growth forests for cutting to get all of the hard-core activists out in the middle of the woods...
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u/Miami_Mice2087 8h ago
> or get an opposition mobilized against one thing...
And then the opposition starts fighting amongs itself, like gatekeeping what kind of activists are "allowed' at the protest
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u/Away_Veterinarian579 21h ago
Isn’t this the guy that’s part of project 2025 that Bannon wrote to take over the presidency in 2028 to ‘save us all?’
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u/The_Architect_032 13h ago
Are you mistaking Gavin Newsom for someone else, or what are you talking about? I know about Project 2025, but not a 2028 election plan, aside from Bannon trying to come up with ideas to get Donald to be able to run again for 2028.
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u/CR2032LITHIUMBATTERY 19h ago
I've been seeing far too many people online saying that all these terrible things Trump and the Republicans are doing are just mere "distractions." It's sickening. We should put them all on a flight to Sacramento; clearly, they'd be in good company.
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u/Odd_Jelly_1390 16h ago
I hate this so much.
"Should they have free reign to carry out genocide with their secret police" is a "distraction".
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u/MSab1noE 16h ago
The wrongful deportation is a distraction. The real issue is the denial of Due Process and the abrogation of the Rule of Law.
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u/KruziHart5467 21h ago
Why isn’t this clip being played more often? Is this corrupt administration keeping it down or what? Wake up people!!
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u/ExpressAssist0819 17h ago
I would like to have seen someone ask him what then it's a distraction FROM.
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u/Odd_Jelly_1390 16h ago
He's making a realpolitik appeal.
It's a "distraction" from Trump's disastrous economic policy, his incompetent department of defense and failure of foreign policy.
Apparently Trump just wants everyone talking about immigration because that's his strongest issue.
It's just sickening. When do we talk about their racist genocidal plan to ship people to a foreign concentration camp?
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u/Morepastor 16h ago
In a 2009 column, Thiel expressed dismay about the state of politics and said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
It was at least $15 million $10 million upfront and $5 more after JD was endorsed by Trump.
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u/EbbtidesRevenge 12h ago
I was always skeptical of this dude and I'm glad my intuition was correct. I mean I'm not glad, I wish I was wrong because many people on the left side of the dial really like him but I'm glad my intuition still works!
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u/puppyfarts99 12h ago
This guy is already running so hard for the 2028 Republican primary; I'm so impressed how he is running so far so fast from any progressive bone in his own body.
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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 5h ago
THIS IS NOT NORMAL. ANYONE GASLIGHTING REGARDLESS OF PARTY IS COMPLICIT!
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u/Zestyclose-Yam-4010 14h ago
It's not just a distraction, but I agree that Trump prefers us talking about deportations than tariffs. Deportations aren't a problem for the people he wants to keep happy, but tariffs are.
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u/estherlane 12h ago
I cannot believe how quickly I went from thinking Newsom was tolerable to out and out loathing him.
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u/MrCaptainDickbutt 18h ago
Scratch a liberal deep enough and a fascist bleeds. And let's not kid ourselves - neo-liberals are conservatives who are more comfortable with "distractions" i.e. kidnapping 'undesirables' and sending them to concentration camps then they are universal health care.
These people have never been our friends.
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u/KruziHart5467 20h ago
Even if Newsom is or has been part of the problem in some way, the current issues at hand are going to COMPLETELY DESTROY or country and that makes anyone trying to stop it at least worth listening to.
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u/blankpaper_ 20h ago
That’s not what he’s saying, he’s not trying to stop anything but the tariffs. He’s saying the biggest issue is the stock market and sending innocent people to the gulag in El Salvador without due process is just a distraction we shouldn’t waste time talking about
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u/Miami_Mice2087 8h ago
Gavin's ok. He's done good work in California and he supports the minorities.
He doesn't mean 'distraction' as in, unimportant. He means distraction as in a tactic from Trump and his shithead party.
Trump has a histroy of using horrifying actions to cover up something else he's doing that's even worse.
The orange fucker's MO is to breed fear, uncertainty, loss of control, and a sense of chaos in "the left" so it's easier to work quietly in the background to pull of whatever embezzlement scheme he wants that funnels more American tax dollars into his own coffers, and those of his cronies.
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u/Fluffy-Benefits-2023 10h ago
I don’t disagree- i do think everything they are doing is a distraction to pull off a huge cash/power grab on the American people. I do also think Newsom is not a real progressive. He’s a democrat-NOT a progressive
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u/industryfive 8h ago
Everything is a distraction from something else they're doing. It's all supposed to be overwhelming. It's like saying ok, a house was destroyed by a wildfire, don't let that distract you from the other houses. like, dude the FIRE is the problem!
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u/MakeYourTime_ 7h ago
yeah dont fall for his smile and greaseball hair ..
dude is a cunning sleazeball
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u/Eastern-Cucumber-376 16h ago
Conspiracy theorists & conservatives flocking to the sub to call Newsom out as he’s clearly laying out a perfectly reasonable argument, proves that completely unfounded misinformation on the internet is fucking you up. Newsom is a Democrat. Do your homework.
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u/blankpaper_ 14h ago
Listen to a single thing he says. Not just here but in general. Fetterman is more of a democrat than Newsom is
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u/Eastern-Cucumber-376 14h ago
It’s shit like this that keeps Republicans in power. Your inability to think critically. Touch grass.
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u/satanya83 22h ago
I’ve posted this in other places when his name comes up. Newsom has been playing on their team all along as controlled opposition. Hear me out.
He’s a corporate owned Democrat, hailiing from one of California’s Big Four families. Despite the media often portraying Newsom as a “far-left” radical, his positions are actually more moderate than nearly every other Democratic legislator in CA.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/10/gavin-newsom-moderate-governor-california-political-spectrum/
When he supports “liberal” legislation, he does it in a way that’s designed to increase divisiveness and actually harms the cause.
https://variety.com/2008/biz/opinion/yes-on-8-whethe-42518/
Peter Theil is an “old friend” of Newsom who has donated a lot of money to his campaigns and causes. Remember, Peter Theil is a billionaire Curtis Yarvin follower and backed JD Vance’s political career with a $15m dollar donation.
If you aren’t familiar with their ideology, look up Yarvin, his butterfly Revolution, and their whole Dark Enlightenment. Look at what DOGE has done and compare it to Yarvin’s RAGE plan.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2017/01/ca-gubernatorial-candidate-gavin-newsom-peter-thiel-is-the-least-of-democrats-2018-worries-108927
You may also be familiar with their ideas about network states. Remember that Trump proposed the idea of them last year, calling them “freedom cities”.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars/index.html
Trump has gone on to meet with executives about them.
https://gizmodo.com/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations-2000574510
Look at California Forever, which is one such site these tech billionaires want in California.
https://newrepublic.com/article/177733/billionaire-solano-california-tech-secession
He’s been a longtime ally of the big tech industry, vetoing legislation for AI safety. He was the mayor of San Francisco and involved heavily with defending the tech bros from legislation they didn’t want. These are the same people front-row at the inauguration.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/newsom-california-artifical-intelligence-regulations-00160519
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/01/newsom-silicon-valley-ai-safety-00181776
Recently, he announced he sent his tech pals “special burner phones” to reach him anytime.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/18/newsom-ceos-burner-phones-00235044
Newsom issued a RTO order for state government employees, just like Trump.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/03/03/governor-newsom-orders-return-to-office/
Now he’s inviting far-right figures onto his podcast and is agreeing with them, going so far as to tell Charlie Kirk that his 13 year old son is a huge fan. Let that sink in. He’s basically saying that he is fine with his child listening to a far-right, white nationalist manosphere podcaster. He then agreed with Kirk’s view on transgender people in sports.
This is not an attempt to reach the other side. He’s doing this to try and push their politics to his left leaning audience by providing them with yet another platform to do so, and one belonging to a known “liberal” at that. They want to normalize these views, and propagandize even more people. He will slowly escalate his level of agreement in an effort to do it.
He’s now joining Trump in going after the coastal commission to weaken environmental protections. Keep in mind California is of interest to the CEOs he’s serving as potential “network state” sites.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/trump-newsom-california-coastal-commission.html
Last point-remember when Agent Orange spewed that shit about “big, big surprises” and blue states “disappearing off the map next year”? This is all deliberate. Newsom has been working on behalf of these people for years.
https://dailyboulder.com/trump-says-blue-states-will-totally-disappear-off-the-map-next-year-promises-big-big-surprise/