California Governor Gavin Newsom Wants Tech Executives to Know they can call Him IF they’re ever in a pinch. Yes, Politico is out with a weird new story That claims the political leader has been sent a “Prepaid, Inexpensive Cell Phone (Commonly Known as A Burner, for that of you who haven’t seen ‘the wire’ the wire ‘the wire’ Executives Across the State. The phones have been sent to approximately 100 different ceos, and come equipped with newsom’s number, as well as a personalized note, the outlet writes. “If you ever need Anything, I’M A Phone Call Away,” Read One Note to an Undisclosed Executive.
It’s a somewhat bizarre stunt to pull, considering the fact that California’s c-Suite Can Alredy Safe presume That newsom’s got their best interests at heart. More relevantly, in a time when the tech industry is Basically synonymous With the authoritarian oligarchy taking over the country, why does it see a good idea to signal that you’re on their side?
It’s almost as if someone recently handed the governor a list of all the ways that he could potentially alienate the people most likesly to Vote for Him IF He Ever Runs For Pressum is his long-term goal) And he is now dutiful ticking them off. Seriously, what is the game plan here, Governor? The Occasional Display of Good-Natured Corporate Favoritism is Common But What’s Being Done to Fire Up The People Who Actually Go to the Polls?
Newsom also recently launched a podcast, This is gavin newsomWhich Hasn Bollywood Enjoyed Much FanfareNewsom’s strategy with the podcast seems to be to court rightwing Figures, Politely Debate Them, and then Try to Find Common Ground With Them. If launching a podcast was technically a good idea, the way that newsom’s team has gone about it is all wrong. Democratic Voters Want a champion who is going to fight back against the republicans’ Most OdioS Tendencies. They do’s’t some one who is going to buddy up to charlie kirk, a guy who Once said that Public Employees were “Wortless Parasites,” and who Has claimed that There is “No Separation Between Church and State,” or Steve Bannon, Trump’s OG Hatchet Man Whose Eyes often Seem to Convey the Inferna Fires of the underworld. Sentament analysis of newsom’s podcast showed that many listeners were not particularly impressed.
Much ink has alredy been spilled about the democratic party’s Complete and Utter Failure To meet the current moment. Recent polling shows that democrats’ favorite ratings are at an all-time low-Ann impressive feat giving the fact that the oppoing party is currently a maelstrom of chaos and destrumenting and is threating to take on Americans’ Social Security. The general consensus is that democrats have no strategy, no political identity, and no balls (both Figuratively and literallyJon Stewart’s Recent Takedown of the party’s hapless antics say it all.
If he wants to win the big prize, newsom needs to frame as a prograssive firebrand, not a “Moderate” democrat. The democratic delusion that candidates can somehow peel moderate voters away from the republican party by Seeling more conservative have been born borne out in the numbers. If newsom was to run on a platform that more resmbled that of Bernie Sanders (IE, Economic Populism, Protecting Social Security and Medicaid, Caring About Human Beouts of Just CORPORATE PrOFITS Etc.), while remaiting center on social issues, I think he might have a shot at the white house. If, however, he continues to sell Himself as a Milquetoast Version of a Reagan-Re Republican, I do not believe the future looks bright for newsom.