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Dec 07 2022

Gavin Newsom Wants New Tax on Gasoline

As a result of single-party rule by leftist Democrats, California pays more than other states for gasoline. The price is about to rise higher still; leftist demagogue Gavin Newsom wants to inflict financial penalties on energy companies, to punish them for having been forced by Democrats’ War on Energy to raise prices.

The Blaze reports:

The proposal would make it illegal for oil companies to charge “excessive” profits. Companies found to be in violation of the proposal would be fined a civil penalty by the California Energy Commission.

The point of calling this a “fine” rather than a tax is that fines are easier to impose, requiring only a simple majority in the state legislature. However, it is in effect a tax.

Gas prices in California are impacted by taxes and fees associated with environmental regulations that other states do not have, KTLA reported. In October, gas in the state was $2.60 more than the national average.

Newsom’s thuggery will drive prices higher still.

The Biden Regime has also attempted to blame energy companies for the high prices caused by Democrat policies and to punish them for it.

You can have affordable energy or you can have moonbat rule. You cannot have both.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Oct 09 2022

Gavin Newsom Reacts to High Gas Prices With More Taxation

When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. All Democrats have is ever more government, which takes the form of ever higher taxes. Consequently, Gavin Newsom is addressing high gas prices by raising taxation on gas:

As noted at The Blaze,

The national average for a gallon of gas is about $3.89 according to the Automobile Association of America, while the average cost per gallon in California is $6.39, or 64% greater than the rest of the country.

Gas is more expensive in Governor Newsom’s California not because capitalists are greedy but due to higher taxes and more repressive regulations — i.e., because there is more government. The Democrat solution to too much government is more government.

By contrast, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a gas tax holiday that drove prices down lower in his state. A gallon of gas in Florida costs about $3.22, far lower than that in California.

Oil companies are not less greedy in Florida. But the people running the state government are.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

May 16 2022

Fighting Fire With Gasoline Part II: Gavin Newsom

The Democrat tactic of putting out fires with gasoline applies not only to child sexual abuse. They also use it on inflation:

Californian Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new inflationary package that would inject another $18.1 billion dollars into the economy.

The last time we lived through the 1970s, this was material for a comedy skit. With people like Gavin Newsom in power, reality is just like comedy except not funny.

Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. Like Biden’s irresponsible policies, Newsom’s ham-fisted attempt to bribe voters with their own money is certain to exacerbate inflation.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

May 09 2022

Gavin Newsom Commits Thoughtcrime

While demagoguing on abortion, Gavin Newsom stepped on a rattlesnake by squealing, “If men could get pregnant, this wouldn’t even be a conversation,” as if no women opposed abortion and morally vacuous men did not have an interest in liquidating inconvenient offspring. His moronic lie is consistent with feminist dogma, but contradicts LGBT doctrine, which currently reigns supreme among Newsom’s fellow Democrats. Liberalism has degenerated to such an extreme of lunacy that it is now regarded as “transphobic” (i.e., thoughtcrime) to believe that only women can get pregnant.

As Armstrong Economics notes,

Newsom carelessly failed to mention the other 71 genders who can also give birth.

Hasn’t he seen the multiracial pregnant man emoji?

Unfortunately, it is unlikely that Newsom will pay a price for his insensitivity toward birthing persons of nonfemale gender, since not even liberals are crazy enough to expect intellectual consistency from liberals.

On a tip from StephaneDumas. Hat tip: MRCTV.

Jan 21 2022

Gavin Newsom Strikes “Gangs” From Newspeak Dictionary

The word “gang” has been struck from the Newspeak Dictionary. Henceforth, we are to replace it with “groups of folks.” To speak otherwise would be to risk offending gangbangers, who qualify for protected status because if they ever voted, it would be for Democrats.

With each passing day, the list of permissible vocabulary gets shorter. Soon we will not have words to express thoughtcrime.

On a tip from Varla.

Jun 08 2021

Gavin Newsom Clings to Covid Emergency Powers

It couldn’t last forever. Largely thanks to the previous administration’s Operation Warp Speed, the ChiCom pandemic is winding down. But some Democrats can’t bear to let it go — like Gavin Newsom:

One year and three months have passed since Governor Gavin Newsom announced California’s COVID-19 state of emergency.

He still won’t lift it, despite the crisis being effectively over, even though the state is officially reopening on June 15, when he promised he would relinquish his emergency powers.

Newsom’s tyranny affects even those Americans fortunate enough not to live under his rule. The whole country gets to help pay the bills he runs up:

The state of emergency gives Newsom the broad authority to suspend and impose new rules in California, and also allows the federal government to cover the state’s COVID-19-related costs. …

During this emergency, Newsom has issued 58 executive orders to change or suspend hundreds of laws.

Other states have either dropped their state of emergency or at least plan to by the end of summer. But California is the leftist vanguard. Now that Democrats know how much people will put up with, a state of emergency will inevitably be established on a permanent basis. Next time it will be in the name of a crisis that doesn’t exist, so they won’t have to worry about it ending. Global warming and white supremacy are leading candidates.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and Mr. Freemarket.

May 11 2021

Gavin Newsom Attempts to Bribe Voters

Looks like Gavin Newsom is worried about the upcoming recall election. He is attempting to bribe Californians with their own money:

Californians don’t actually get their own money. For the most part, they get someone else’s money — even if they are in the country illegally and supposedly can’t vote:

Chief among the new proposals is a major expansion of the Golden State Stimulus, providing additional direct payments to middle-class families that make up to $75,000. Under the plan, two-thirds of Californians will benefit from $600 direct payments. Qualified families with dependents, including undocumented families, will also now be eligible for an additional $500.

The Golden State Stimulus comes on top of another spending spree, the California Comeback Plan, which will pay people’s rent and utility bills. Of the $100 billion to be spent on this, $26 billion will come from federal taxpayers. If Newsom manages to spread around enough money to survive the recall, every federal taxpayer will have helped him out, even if unwillingly.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

May 05 2021

Gavin Newsom’s Job Placement Specialist

Looks like the California recall election has Gavin Newsom running scared. He has already hired JP Sears to find him a new job:

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

Dec 13 2020

Gavin Newsom Cashes In on COVID-19 Relief

COVID-19 has been a boon for our liberal ruling class. For example, not only does Gavin Newsom get to masklessly dine inside at extravagantly expensive restaurants despite the restrictions imposed on the law-abiding, he also gets to participate in the looting spree ostensibly intended to help small businesses like those his endless lockdown has been grinding out of existence:

What people fail to rebel against, they will get more of.

On a tip from Zachary B.

Dec 05 2020

Gavin Newsom Has Not Changed

This ad from 2008 reminds us that even Gavin Newsom has a redeeming quality. His is consistency. See how little he has changed over the years in his tendency to triumphantly ram moonbattery down the public’s throat:

“It’s going to happen whether you like it or not.” Newsom’s party ought to adopt that as its official motto as it fundamentally transforms America into its depraved conception of utopia.

On a tip from Henry.

Nov 03 2020

Judge Blocks Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 Tyranny

We are used to judges helping to impose moonbattery in California, as when gay US District Judge Vaugh Walker overruled Prop 8 to take a wrecking ball to marriage. But Gavin Newsom has gotten so carried away that a judge is acting as a brake:

Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman issued a preliminary order for Newsom to stop making executive orders that could contradict state laws after determining one of his orders was “an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power.”

Her order prevents Newsom “from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act which amends, alters, or changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.”

The pushback against Newsom’s COVID-19 tyranny unsurprisingly was initiated by the handful of Republicans remaining in the erstwhile Golden State.

Republican state Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley challenged Newsom, saying he was overstepping state law with his executive orders.

The problem is not necessarily particular decrees; it is that our system of government requires the legislative branch to make the laws, not the executive. Someone needs to get word of this to other Democrat governors who have exploited the ChiCom virus to set themselves up as regional dictators (Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, Phil Murphy, Kate Brown, JB Pritzker, Janet Mills, et al).

Let’s hope the Supreme Court provides the same pushback if Biden prevails and his handlers try to make good on his threat of a “dark winter.” Unfortunately, if Democrats follow through on another threat, they will pack the court with rubber stamp leftists and turn it into a superlegislature that will render future voting futile.

On a tip from FrancesJohn.

Sep 24 2020

Gavin Newsom Bans Conventional Vehicles

Never assume that Democrats will not follow up on an agenda item that is self-evidently insane. Where they have consolidated unchallenged power, there is no limit to the lunatic tyranny they will inflict. California is a case in point.

Only 10 years ago, California had a Republican governor (if you want to count Arnold Schwarzenegger as Republican). Only 45 years ago, Ronald Reagan was the governor. But due largely to demographic changes, Democrats will control the state for the foreseeable future, no matter how poorly they rule. So they rule like this:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed an executive order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks in California by 2035…

Barks Newsom:

“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change. … Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.”

No serious person could believe that banning cars in California will have a perceptible effect on sea levels.

Electric cars are mainly powered by fossil fuels anyway, since wind and solar generate nowhere near enough electricity, and leftists consider nuclear energy politically unclean. Manufacturing the batteries for electric cars is environmentally devastating.

Banning regular cars is economically crippling tyranny for its own sake.

Damage to the economy isn’t a bug; it’s a feature. The Great Depression and FDR would have kept each other going indefinitely if World War II had not intervened. The economic crash of 2008 swept Barack Obama into power; his policies stalled recovery for years. Trump was coasting to reelection until overreaction to COVID-19 caused the economy to crash again. What is bad for the economy is good for the Democratic Party.

Stand by to see if California Democrats ban electricity next. By then, these people could control the whole country. Already, a far-left California Democrat is running for de facto president.

On a tip from R F.

Sep 01 2020

Gavin Newsom Presents Endless Lockdown

California used to be associated with endless summer. Then came moonbattery. Now it is associated with endless lockdown:

“We need to live differently,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday after moving the state re-opening goalposts once again. Governor Gavin Newsom announced yet another new set of guidelines for re-opening counties in California…

If anyone is still unclear about the governor’s actual goals: a county can average one “case” per 100,000 for three weeks and still not be fully open.

The California Restaurant Association said in a statement Friday that restaurants will continue to close permanently around the state because Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan will continue to keep most indoor dining rooms closed, while others will have strict limits on capacity.

Gyms are among the other businesses getting devastated.

More closed businesses mean more unemployment, which in turn means more government dependence. Today’s Democrats understand why FDR and the Great Depression would have kept each other going forever if WWII hadn’t intervened.

Barks Newsom:

“COVID-19 will be with us for a long time and we all need to adapt.”

By “we” he means “you.” Like Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Newsom regards COVID-19 restrictions as “For thee, not me.”

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair. Hat tip: Victory Girls.

Jul 25 2023

California Parents Cave to Newsom on LGBT Curriculum

Sometimes parents and even teachers put up a fight against progressives using public schools to indoctrinate innocent children in the ruling class ideology of politicized sexual depravity. Usually, it is not enough of a fight:

A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studies curriculum that includes gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after initially rejecting it.

When CNN says “gay rights,” it means glorification of LGBTism.

Why did parents agree to this? Arms were twisted.

[Leftist Governor Gavin] Newsom previously warned that the district could be sanctioned if it didn’t use the state-approved curriculum.

Newsom denounced attempts to protect children from the glamorization of sexual sickness as “extremists’ desire to control information.”

Don’t worry, it isn’t as if children are being brainwashed into revering perverts who prey on them. According to Allison Barclay, a Temecula Valley Unified School District board member,

“There is no mention of Harvey Milk in the textbook that I know of,” she said. “He is listed in a supplemental section titled ‘Biographies’…”

Supervisor Harvey Milk was shot along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone by Dan White, a former supervisor who became unhinged when he couldn’t get his job back. White received a wrist slap after using the infamous Twinkie defense. Because Milk was a pervert who molested children, the same sort of liberals who don’t want you to see Sound of Freedom exploited his death to enshrine him as a martyr to their cause. The Navy even named a ship after him.

We grew up with George Washington. The next generation will grow up with Harvey Milk. Because all societies need heroes.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

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