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2025-07-18 Home Front: Politix

Meet the new Gavin Newsom: Memelord and historical revisionist

[SDUT] America, meet the new Gavin Newsom!

He’s similar to the old one — same hair, hand jives while speaking — but this one oozes machismo and has a brand new backstory.

California’s governor is working feverishly to reinvent himself as he plods along on his never-ending campaign for president, apparently accepting that the old Newsom is limited in appeal.

In California, old Newsom is unpopular among the voters who know him best. His approval rating is underwater at 44%, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, and a majority of voters think he, at best, puts the needs of Californians over his own only "a little" bit of the time, according to a Berkeley IGS poll.

Old Newsom’s list of actual accomplishments is so small that he defaults to bragging about things for which he deserves no credit, like the size of California’s gross state product and the state’s population of Nobel Laureates, that also do little to affect the lives of most Californians (except those lucky Nobel laureates!).

In other words, Gavin Newsom needed a new Gavin Newsom fast.

Back in Newsom HQ, everyone must have been scrambling: What do voters want?

Someone manly, for starters. Democrats bombed last November, and they blame their repulsiveness to men and a rejection of popular male podcasts, like The Joe Rogan Experience. So this week Newsom went on the Shawn Ryan Show, a podcast hosted by a former Navy Seal.

There’s nothing more manly than Navy Seals, but Newsom could only steal so much masculinity. To prove he’s one of the guys, Newsom started swearing a lot and calling Ryan "brother." He unveiled an apparent love of bow hunting and skeet shooting (who knew?) and said he was a big Second Amendment supporter (again, who knew?).

The only thing Newsom could have done to be more manly would have been to gobble down a raw buffalo liver and then challenge Ryan, barechested, in arm wrestling. This is new Newsom, not the guy who railed against "toxic masculinity" and condemned as misogynists the same male voters he’s now courting.

At times, Newsom broke character and slipped back to the old, elitist self, like the Nobel laureates gaffe, but quickly moved on to Fortune 500 companies because men know Gordon Gekko was badass and had amazing hair too.

Newsom made clear Ryan was his bro, but don’t be fooled by the tone. Polling shows that Democratic voters want a fighter and Newsom is here to deliver.

An NBC News poll from March showed that nearly two-thirds of Democrats want their elected leaders to fight Trump, even if it means getting nothing done. And when it comes to getting nothing done, Newsom the man.

The swearing is not enough. Newsom’s social media game, complete with a team of towel whippers to hoot and holler, has the sass cranked to 11. The gang says it all, true or not, and Harry Potter fans will love the Voldemort memes. So tough.

These guys are brave. After all, J.K. Rowling is persona non grata with liberals and men don’t read a lot of books about teenage wizards. But the towel guys followed up with a particularly sassy post calling White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller a "fascist cuck."

In a different era, that post would be unbecoming from a taxpayer-funded account. But not this era. Not this moment. And certainly not this version of Newsom. Newsom said he would not apologize for the post. Men don’t apologize.

All of this is cosmetic. To finish the job, Newsom needed some distance between new him and old him, with his well-known and often touted (by him) record of ineffective, far-left policies.

Democrats abroad are leery of importing California policies to their states, as Newsom learned during a recent campaign trip to the early primary state of South Carolina. So he made up a whole new history.

Newsom brags about California’s strictest gun laws, but to Ryan, who said he carries a gun wherever he goes, new Newsom said he’s "deeply mindful and respectful of the Second Amendment and people’s constitutional rights."

During COVID Newsom ran one of the longest and most restrictive responses of any state. A year into COVID, he indicated he had no regrets (besides dining unmasked with lobbyists at the French Laundry) about the severity of the response.

But Newsom told Ryan this week that shutting down beaches and open spaces, which was widely panned at the time by me and many others, was foolish.

"What the hell are we doing shutting down the beaches and open areas and you know and not understanding that early on," Newsom said.

What the hell, indeed. The prevailing public health consensus at the time was that COVID was not particularly transmittable outside, but Newsom was thirsty for national praise (even back then) and worried about backlash from liberal hypochondriacs who saw a photo of people on the beach. The horror!

No detail is left untouched. In 2023, Newsom pushed San Francisco officials to clean up the city in anticipation of a visit from Chinese President Xi Jingping.

"I know folks say, ’Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town,’ and that’s true because it’s true," Newsom said at the time.

But men don’t clean. So Newsom told Ryan this week that that story was "complete bulls—."

Tough talk, tough on COVID, Newsom cleans for no one. Be still my male heart!

There are countless other examples out there and surely more to come. This version of Gavin Newsom is here to stay — at least until polling says it’s time to pivot.

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [38 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 It's as fake as putting cake icing on a fresh turd, but hey, at least the Ds are re-discovering masculinity.
I look forward to the screaming as they call him toxic.

Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-07-18 00:44|| 2025-07-18 00:44|| Front Page || Comments Top