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   a425couple wrote:   
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   > Gavin Newsom Is Fooling No One   
   > California Governor Gavin Newsom at a news conference in Sacramento,   
   > Calif., October 28, 2025.   
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   > By Charles C. W. Cooke   
   > January 28, 2026 10:19 AM   
   > 308 Comments   
   > The California governor can hardly pretend to be a champion of free   
   > speech, gun rights, and life.   
   > What’s that old Nietzsche line about gazing long into an abyss? Gavin   
   > Newsom would do well to recall it. Eventually, Donald Trump turns all of   
   > his critics into an ersatz version of himself, and, evidently, the   
   > governor of California is not immune. It is common to hear Newsom   
   > described as an oleaginous man, but, at this point, he might better be   
   > compared to sand. Sand absorbs oil, and retains its color in the   
   > process. Of late, Newsom has absorbed an Exxon Valdez’s worth of Trump.   
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   > It’s not just the all-caps tweeting, or the acid mockery, or the   
   > hypocritical demands that everyone but him must play nice that Newsom   
   > has assiduously copied. It’s the chutzpah. This week, Newsom tweeted   
   > that “nothing is sacred in Trump’s America — not the First Amendment,   
   > not the Second, not even life itself,” before vowing, “We, the People,   
   > from National Reviewwill not allow the Trump Administration to erode our   
   > rights.” An admirable sentiment, in a vacuum. But surely the “we” in   
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   > sentence cannot include Gavin Newsom?   
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   > The Second Amendment? At present, Newsom is engaged in a national effort   
   > to repeal it, so that it can be replaced with a version that focuses on   
   > gun control rather than gun rights. As mayor of San Francisco, Newsom   
   > urged the city’s Board of Supervisors to impose “the maximum penalty   
   > under state law” on residents who violated San Francisco’s (now   
   > struck-down) total ban on handguns and — twice — joined amicus briefs   
   > that argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual   
   > right. As governor of California, Newsom has signed a bill that bans   
   > concealed carry at the protests he now lionizes; signed a bill that bans   
   > Glocks, the most popular handgun brand in the United States; signed a   
   > bill (now enjoined) that gutted the Bruen decision by defining   
   > “sensitive places” so extensively as to render carry impossible for   
   > millions; signed a bill (now struck down) that was intended to prevent   
   > those who challenge California’s gun laws from obtaining attorney’s   
   > fees; and signed a bill (now struck down) that regulated what could be   
   > said about guns in print if it were possible that a minor might see it.   
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   > The First Amendment? In 2022, Newsom signed AB 587 (now partially   
   > enforced, following a settlement), which required social media platforms   
   > to submit periodic reports to the state about how they enforce rules on   
   > categories such as hate speech, extremism, and disinformation, and the   
   > California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (now enjoined), which imposed   
   > default-setting requirements on any online service that was likely to be   
   > accessed by children. In 2024, he signed SB399 (now enjoined), which   
   > barred employers from requiring employees to attend meetings or   
   > communications whose primary purpose is to convey the employer’s views   
   > on politics, religion, or union organizing, and AB 2655 (now struck   
   > down), AB 2839 (now struck down), and AB 2355, which broadly regulated   
   > the same election-related AI and digitally altered political content   
   > that Newsom frequently traffics in on social media.   
      
   I'm not too worried about this last paragraph. If you think I'm extreme,   
   you ought to see Gavin Newsom's posts on facebook.   
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